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Text Box: Do any of our members qualify for this?

DoD Announces Korean Defense Service Medal
Navy News Service
February 9, 2004

WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department announced Feb. 9 the creation of the Korean Defense Service Medal (KDSM). The KDSM is a service medal to give special recognition for the sacrifices and contributions made by members of the U.S. Armed Forces who have served or are serving in the Republic of Korea.

Public Law 107-314 legislated the creation of a new medal to recognize military service in the Republic of Korea and the surrounding waters.

Members of the armed forces authorized the KDSM must have served in support of the defense of the Republic of Korea. The area of eligibility encompasses all land area of the Republic of Korea, and the contiguous water out to 12 nautical miles, and all air spaces above the land and water areas.

The KDSM period of eligibility is July 28, 1954, to a future date to be determined by the Secretary of Defense.

Service members must have been assigned, attached, or mobilized to units operating in the area of eligibility and have been physically deployed in the area of eligibility for 30 consecutive or 60 non-consecutive days or meet one of the following criteria:

· Be engaged in actual combat during an armed engagement, regardless of the time in the area of eligibility.
. Wounded or injured in the line of duty and require medical evacuation from the area of eligibility.
· While participating as a regularly assigned air crew member flying sorties into, out of, within, or over the area of eligibility in support of military operations. Each day that one or more sorties are flown in accordance with these criteria shall count as one day toward the 30 or 60-day requirement.
· Personnel who serve in operations and exercises conducted in the area of eligibility are considered eligible for the award as long as the basic time criteria is met. Due to the extensive time period for KDSM eligibility, the nonconsecutive service period for eligibility remains cumulative throughout the entire period.

The KDSM may be awarded posthumously, and only one award of the KDSM is authorized for any individual.

Each military department will prescribe appropriate regulations for administrative processing, awarding and wearing of the KDSM and ribbon for their service members, to include application procedures for veterans, retirees and next of kin.

More than 40,000 members of the U.S. Armed Forces have served in the Republic of Korea or the waters adjacent thereto each year since the signing of the cease-fire agreement in July 1953, which established the Demilitarized Zone. For more than 50 years, U.S. Armed Forces’ efforts to deter and defend the Korean Peninsula have helped maintain democracy and preserve the indomitable spirit of freedom.

Text Box: "SHOW A LEG"

Many of our Navy's colorful expressions originated as practical means of communicating vital information. One such expression is "show a leg".

In the British Navy of King George III and earlier, many sailors' wives accompanied them on long voyages. This practice caused a multitude of problems, but some ingenious bosun solved one problem that tended to make reveille, (wake up time for civilians), a hazardous event: that of distinguishing which bunks held males and which held females.

To avoid dragging the wrong "mates" out of the rack, the bosun asked all to "show a leg". If the leg shown was adorned with silk, the owner was allowed to continue sleeping. If the leg was hairy and tattooed, the owner was forced to "turn-to".

In today's Navy, showing a leg is a signal to the reveille petty officer that you have heard the call and are awake.

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in which, Rondeau said, when one recruit gets sick, 70 or 80 more quickly follow.
Also slated for the wrecking ball are the base's drill halls, which were put up more than 60 years ago as temporary structures. They will be replaced by three new training halls with air conditioning, offices and classrooms and modern amenities.
The cost of all the new construction is projected to be $798 million over nine years, said Cmdr. Tony Edmonds.
Navy officials are quick to say the new approach is intended to be more focused, not any less rigorous than the old way of doing things.
"I think the recruits are going to get a training that's more tailored to the needs of the Navy," Lt. Dan Cook said.
"Always being tired all the time and always being sick and coughing really affects your ability to effectively learn," Rondeau said. "We want people to be able to focus on making critical decisions."

Text Box: Hunley team keeps digging for answers
Caretakers of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley say it will be two to three years more before they will know what caused the sub to sink.
The answer lies somewhere in the mix of archaeology, forensics and sand conditions that the sunken sub was found in, and all the data must be spliced together and correlated before scientists can make a determination.
"It's like a big zigzag maze, but we'll get there with a high degree of certainty," Warren Lasch, chairman of Friends of the Hunley, said Friday. "We will be able to tell the last minutes of
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Text Box: THE DERELICT
The "Dundee Star", a scottish bark, abandoned by its crew in a gale off Midway Island, drifted completely around the world in 4 years and finally piled up in 1891 on Midway Island the very spot from which she started her phantom voyage.

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