Talk:Cold War Victory Medal

The image caption is wrong
The image caption is wrong because it states that the Department of Defense awards the medal. If this is not an DoD approved medal, the DoD can't issue it. The aritcle also states that this is a private medal and is not authroized for wearing on any military uniform. Please fix the caption to correctly insure the right message is sent.

Regards, Mike Surles —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.191.20.74 (talk) 18:46, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Protection
I have semi-protected this article due to anon ip users cutting and pasting large amounts of text in from other websites, namly a website called Foxfall Medals. In addition, the mateiral is highly POV, making statements that the creator of the medal is "reknowned" and that the medal "shows respect and dedication" to name but a few. The anon ip user was contacted regarding these edits, but did not answer and promptly reverted to the previous version. This protection should be removed only after a talk page discussion has resolved the issue. -Husnock 04:49, 22 March 2006 (UTC)


 * What Mr. Husnock must realize is that he personally copy and pasted text directly from the Fox Fall Medal website. The picture of the medal and the direct wording came from that site.  That is not really a problem though as the owner of Fox Fall owns the rights to the medal.  Links have been provided proving it.  The owner himself typed in additional information about the medal.  For reasons unknown Mr. Husnock deleted the owners own typing.  When the owner of the medal and the web page types in information it is not a copyright violation.  Despite belief to the contrary the medal is not in public domain.  It wasn't created from thin air.  It was in fact privately created.  Mr. Husnock can easily contact the owner of the medal and he will be enlightened. —This unsigned comment was added by 209.216.179.19 (talk • contribs).
 * I compared the current version of the article to the Foxfall website and it actually does not contain any similar wording or exact pasting from the site. the "extra information" was a second article tacked on the end of this one which was a direct cut and paste.  As far as the picture goes, I believe it comes from the Institute of Heraldry.  Finially, the article was not protected due to content dispute but to prevent open cutting and pasting from another website which is a clear copyvio problem and is alaso bad form as Wikipedia is not a mirror to other sites (see What Wikipedia is not).  In addition, it seemed that one user was using several anon ip address to reinsert the disputed edits over and over again, thus coming very close to violating the Three revert rule. -Husnock 05:25, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Alaska
The first paragraph, among other things, states "It is awarded ... in ribbon form only by the State of Alaska" Is there a source for this?

Official Medal
Messages have begun to come out that this now an official medal. NPRC was directed a few weeks ago to begin preparing procedures for issuing the medal to all veterans who served from the 1940s to the end of the Cold War. Guess the article will need some updating... -OberRanks (talk) 02:57, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

"Unofficial Military Medal of the United States"
The intro states "In the medal's unofficial capacity it can be purchased, but not worn in uniform, by any member of the United States military, or civilian employees of the federal government, who served in their positions honorably during the years of the Cold War, specifically September 2, 1945 to December 26, 1991."

The medal can be purchased by anyone http://www.foxfall.com/cwm.htm

According to a link in the article, Navy on Cold War Medal "The Department of Defense will not be creating a Cold War Service medal, and commemorative medals being sold by private vendors are not authorized for wear on military uniforms"

This means what it says. It is not an "unoffical military medal of the United States" (what does that even mean?), it is a privately made medal disavowed by the Department of Defense.

If it has been adopted by the National Guard of Louisiana and Alaska, fine. But call it what it is, a privately made decoration adopted by those particular units, and adopted as a commemorative medal by a couple of veterans associations, not an "unofficial military medal of the United States". I think the article might be better served if the title of the article was about the overall attempts to get a Cold War medal established, rather than this specific medal, which as it stands now is a souvenir as far as the Department of Defense is concerned.--Nyctc7 (talk) 17:00, 15 September 2012 (UTC)


 * yeah, it's not even the only version out there marketed as a "Cold War Medal" Gecko G (talk) 08:28, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The medal was designed by TIOH as the Cold War Victory Medal, so the article title is proper. As noted in the content, the medal has not been approved for DoD use, but there have been several bills put forth before Congress. Instead of unofficial, I would recommend not been approved for use by the Department of Defense. --  Gadget850talk 19:31, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

This article reads as a long advertisement and call to lobbying for this medal
I mean, seriously, the voting records broken down by whether the legislator is still in office??

This article needs to be stripped down to the bare facts.71.126.150.116 (talk) 01:49, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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Texas Cold War Medal
The "Cold War Victory Medal" is absolutely NOT recognized by the State of Texas. The Texas Adjutant General's Department (which oversees the Army and Air National Guards, as well as the Texas State Guard), has issued its OWN medal, the Texas Cold War Service medal. Unfortunately, Wikipedia does not allow posting of images by non-Wikipedia staff, so an image of the Texas Cold War Service medal is not available.(Texas Cold War Medal). TexasSarge (talk) 08:25, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Cold War Service Medal Act
Bills introduced in the House of Representatives need to be updated. 172.58.108.66 (talk) 03:42, 17 December 2021 (UTC)