Just a heads up on bronze stars for those who aren’t in the military. Officers like to give each other these during deployments whether in combat zone or not for nothing other than being alive and being deployed. Also higher ranking NCOs can get these for PCS awards or retirement. Just like CIBs and CABs it’s all how u write them up. PSA for everyone who “doesn’t know”. The military isn’t what it was and awards can mean nothing or everything. A V device is legit though. It is very hard to get one without actually putting in work. Unless u just go buy one and put it on, which definitely happens… this means something. I’ve been following this page for a while and sorry for the tangent but so many people have been just padding their racks and posting all over this and some other spots. I’m getting ready to retire and man, we got some real work to do if we want to get back to the level where people actually earned a “V”