Military awards and decorations: an idea

Wonderful idea!

Get it started.

This "database" could be user implemented using the Geni Wiki.

Here's a good ref for US Military awards and decorations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awards_and_decorations_of_the_United_S...

@Marvin, thanks !
When I find some time I'll start a project with some links

I created a project: http://www.geni.com/projects/Military-awards-and-decorations

Please feel free to add some more links and/or improve the text above it.

Here's an idea for you. A neat work-around until Geni adds photo albums to projects.

Having created the project, go ahead an create a fake "tree" for it. Call the father profile "Military awards and decorations", give him children for each Country you want to list the Awards for. You could even create "grandchildren" if some countries have different sets of awards, for example by military branch (Army, Navy, Air-Force). Now add all of these public profiles to the project.

For each profile in this tree, you can add actual photos of the AWARDS. Now whoever joins the project can tag their own profiles in these "photos".

This has three main benefits:
1) You can have a standardized set of images.
2) Everybody can use them, without having to upload them by themselves.
3) You'll have all profiles that share an award listed in the same place!

Shmuel-Aharon Kam (Kahn / שמואל-אהרן קם (קאן Aren't you clever? I love that idea!

That would be a big tree

Just for the us you have the military awards for 50s state and it's teritories
and the 5 services
Awards also change over time so you have to have say the present medal of Honor and then the one that was issued in the 1800's
each has to be listed in the order of presidence.
Then the authorized awards from other countries that are alowed to be worn on a US uniform (The rules are diferent for each service)

That's just the US Now there's 257 counties in the world according to my info, so repeat the process for each country.

I hope you have a lot of time on your hands because I bet you don't get it right the first time. And the rules do change from time to time.

Now that you know what it would take,If you want to give it a try, I can assist in getting the US right, but you would need help with the other 256 counties.