ROTC Ribbons Required?

[Mitchell 1969]

I was awarded an NJROTC Meritorious Acheivement Award at the end of my junior year for being instrumental in setting up a new unit at another high school. I think I saw a total of 4 of them the entire 4 years I was in the program. Fun times.

The worst thing about the Army JROTC ribbons was the color combinations...

Purple, green and grey?

Brown, orange, green and grey?

Yellow, orange and green?

I don't know what happened to them. I was in AJROTC in 1969-1971, earned 4 ribbons and that was a lot. The most I ever saw on anyone was 6.

Colors were all different. Other than "DA Superior Cadet" the ribbons were all selected locally from the Wolf-Brown generic chart.

[aviator9417]

JROTC gives ribbons out like candy.  For the two years I was dual CAP/JROTC cadet I had 5 rows of JROTC ribbons and 2 rows for CAP ribbons.

[a2capt]

JROTC gives ribbons out like candy.

..and some say we have too many.

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

We had dual-status CAP/JROTC cadets in my first unit.

They could wear ALL their ribbons from both organisations.

A couple of them had more ribbons than Colin Powell and Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf combined...and they were not kept in the best of shape (dirty, frayed, etc).