If you were to create a new medal it would have to have seperate requirements to the old medal, ie someone with 3 years service in the FCA (ie joined in 2002) and 4 years service in the RDF would never get the FCA service medal, and would have to wait for 3 more years for a RDF service medal. Some old sweats would get 2 medals, while large numbers of people who joined from 1998 onwards would have to wait until they had up to 14 years service until they got any medal, and would effectively have as much as 6/7 years of their service (in the FCA) disregarded.
Alternatively, we could just keep the same medal and keep issuing it in the same manner. The RDF is a reorganised and rebranded FCA, not a compeltely new organisation.
Alternatively, we could just keep the same medal and keep issuing it in the same manner. The RDF is a reorganised and rebranded FCA, not a compeltely new organisation.
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