Overdue for De-NORKification of our Uniforms

It is just an opportunity to point out again a problem that a lot of us continue to hope for action on: the obscene bloat of awards, badges, and pins. - CDR Salamander

In other words, how does the existing U.S. military awards program actively promote the Secretary of War’s call to restore America’s warfighting ethos? 

Unfortunately, the answer is that it does not.
No, not even close. 

• Just the opposite, it has now become almost a joke.
• The farcical “everyone gets a trophy” issue has to be at its peak. 

It has been an issue for decades and really can’t keep going like this...