The problem is that the code was created immediatley after WW2, probably to prevent a rash of 'instant heroes'. It was never intended for something like this.

No response yet, I will see if he writes back Monday. Who knows, there may have been a three day weekend for fed employees in Washington.

Did this guy write back to you and specifically state that you cannot make medals in this game because of this regulation? I cannot believe that Ubi wouldn't at least try to challenge this one. I mean, this 'ruling' from what really is nothing more than a mid level clerk will affect a lot more than just SHIV, it will affect the entire Rainbow line as well as any other military shooter out there. In reality, if they put jump wings on a character technically, according to this clerk, they are violating the statute.

I might want to point this out to Ubi if they are bending over and taking it in the shorts for this game. They will lose more than just some medals in what is to them a marginal (but not to me) profit game. The whole Rainbow series could be affected.

Yeah, but if you read the whole regulation, with the restriction that some articles may be sold if they are only sold in military stores, it is quite obvious they are not talking about media (e.g. movies, books, or games). There has never been to my knowledge an attempt to force the recall or exclusive sale in AAFES of war movies or works of history or fiction including pictorial representations of the medals. The closes too it is that I have heard the DoD often requires that a movie using military uniforms puts them together with some small error, usually something like a ribbon in the wrong order of precedence so as to enture the military is not legally endorsing the film, but again that would not really apply here.

Anyway, using a little common sense, I find it hard to imagine that anybody would confuse the medals in SH4 with the real thing . . .

And RDDR, I appreciate your service, but do not be too hard on the guys on the SubSim forum. I think the guy doing the medal editting is not trying to brush you off so much as he is not really interested in doing any graphics editting all (understandable, since it requires much more time and effort than simple text file editting).

Hey Nimits,
I've cooled off and told myself to grow up.
Might even re download and start from scratch again tonight.
Chris