{"id":71228,"date":"2017-04-03T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71228"},"modified":"2017-04-02T18:37:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T22:37:16","slug":"c-and-r-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71228","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;C&#8221; and &#8220;R&#8221; devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/articles\/c-device-r-device-v-device-military-combat-awards\">Military Times<\/a> discusses Defense Department plans to add &#8220;C&#8221; and &#8220;R&#8221; devices to the inventory of accouterments and appurtenances for military awards. The &#8220;C&#8221; is for medals that are awarded for combat on awards that aren&#8217;t already designated for combat awards &#8211; it would be attached on the service Achievement and Commendation Medals, for example. The &#8220;R&#8221; is for remote participation in combat like for drone operators. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the helpful graphic that Military Times used;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71229\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/military-medals-c-r-and-v-devices-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/military-medals-c-r-and-v-devices-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/military-medals-c-r-and-v-devices-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/military-medals-c-r-and-v-devices-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/military-medals-c-r-and-v-devices.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cC\u201d device. Recognizes meritorious service or achievement under combat conditions, and authorized only if the service or achievement was performed while personnel were exposed to hostile action or significant risk: <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cR\u201d device. Recognizes hands-on employment of a weapon system or other war-fighting activities with direct and immediate impact on an operation. The device appears intended for drone operators, cyber warfare specialists and others who contribute to battlefield initiatives while not directly exposed to hostile action or significant risk: <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Military Times discusses Defense Department plans to add &#8220;C&#8221; and &#8220;R&#8221; devices to the inventory &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;C&#8221; and &#8220;R&#8221; devices\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71228\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;C&#8221; and &#8220;R&#8221; devices<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}