I was told recently by an admin bod that we were due to get them in November, so basically 0 chance of getting them mounted before Remembrance. Oh well, maybe next year.
Weekly Brief 59, 2nd item. Sheds some light, possibly hope, on the current state of play. Still wouldn’t advise holding one’s breath, especially those in South West, as Royal Mail pigeons are stopping at Membury to transfer to snails apparently.
Thanks for sharing, this is useful info for myself too.
I’ll have a look at gathering the evidence I need to submit an application.
And it has arrived in the post today. Nice quick turnaround.
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Those of us who were in Tranche 1 are yet to receive… and you got yours in 16 days!!
Is this a HQAC issue or a MODMO one? HQAC can’t really blame MODMO if @Farmerdan going direct to MODMO has already got their medal!
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In fairness a single medal is easy to send out rather than 5000 of however many the RAFAC needs to be issued.
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To be fair I have a feeling that they have a pot at MODMO for the individual issues, whereas the mass issues to different branches/corps/regiments etc take longer to get together.
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I’d almost think it’s the opposite. Dealing with individual claims one a one by one basis I’d surely see as more time consuming than HQAC just saying ‘we need 5000 medals’ and then dealing with that?
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Disagree as remember they will also have to produce the receipt letter that everyone of us will have to sign.
A medal and a single sheet of paper takes seconds. 5000 medals and a forest will take much longer to produce.
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In fairness to MODMO, they were great in sending out 20 to us and they even missed one which, when I asked them about it, was received they following week.
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Thought I would cross post this here as it may lead to some discussion not suited to that thread! Glad to see some medals coming out for the cadets that attended. In this case, the cadet is now an adult SNCO 
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Mate of mine got his this week (sent to his house as now ex-army)
According to VoV medals are now at HQAC awaiting onward travel to regions.
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So we might see them in 12 months. If we’re lucky
According the commandants recent Facebook, the gentleman who deals with it all has just retired.
But not before they were batched up for collection by Regions … Commandant’s conference is 21-23 Nov, so hopefully they’ll be collected then if no opportunity exists prior however I think we’ll be lucky if we see them this side of the new year.
WBW have handed some out at their Wing Field Day this weekend I see on Social Media
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If they got their skates on there is no reason why we couldn’t have then for remembrance. It’s only 6 RHQs sending to 5/6 WHQs - could be done in 2 weeks tops. There aren’t that many eligible per wing that splitting them would be complicated.
Why not give the offer to collect from region?
The delay is pass the parcel nature of the org. The medals are at region awaiting collection at wing awaiting collection by wing staff officers awaiting delivery to sqns to be passed to people.
Email out to personnel giving a week to collect from RHQ ahead of being delivered to Wings.