IT CAME AS A SURPRISE TO ME TO FIND THAT THE HD BODS,ONLY MEET BY VARIOUS FORMS/OR LACK OF COMMUNICATIONS!,WELL AS I ONLY GOT AS FAR AS STEAMING HMS ARETHUSA,EVEN FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE BOILER ROOM ('KIN HOT DUDES )I THOUGHT THE COMMON SENSE THING WOULD BE A NICE BIG TABLE,COMFY SEATS OBVIOUSLY,TEA AND WADS,THEN CHUCK IT AROUND ,WITH A FAT ARSE IN ATTENDANCE,WITH ALL RELAVENT INFO ,PRECEDENTS,EXAMPLES OF A.B. C. SYNDROME,THEN COME UP WITH SOMETHING LIKE ;WELL BOYS IN OUR TROUBLED TIMES HERES AN OPPORTUNITY,TO SHOW SOMETHING POSITIVE,A SUCCESFUL CAMPAIGN,ACCEPT THIS GRATIS MEDAL FROM THE KING AND PEOPLES OF THE COUNTRY THAT IS NOW MALAYSIA,LET OUR VETS WEAR IT WITH PRIDE,SPECIALLY NOW WELL HAVE A VETERANS DAY,IN WHICH THE NATION SHARES IN APPRECIATION OF ITS EX SERVICE PEOPLE,LETS THE PRESENT SERVICE BODS BY ASSOCIATION KNOW,THAT THEIR SERVICE IS WORTHWHILE,INSTEAD WE GET BOLLOCKS NO APPEAL ON THE DECISION LOTS OF EXAMPLE OF PRECEDENTS THAT AIN'T :oops:ALLEGED PROTECTORS OF INTEGRITY THAT AIN'T VETERANS TOTALLY DISENCHANTED ,THERE SERVICE IN A FORGOTTEN WAR,AND THERE DEAD OPPOS DISREGARDED REQUESTS FOR ANSWERS HAVE NOW CEASED TO BE REPLIED TO A REVIEW DATE FOR NOV 2006 ,STILL NOT RESOLVED IT JUST GOES ON AND ON,FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE BOILER ROOM('KIN HOT DUDES )WHEN O WHEN IS SOMEONE WITH MORE SENSE THAN THAN WE HAVE YET ENCOUNTERED ,MAKES THE COMMON SENSE DECISION ,THAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED 'KIN YONKS AGO,IN FACT JUST LIKE ,THE OZZIE & KIWIS DID,OR WAS THERE SOMETHING THEY DID THAT WE DIDN'T