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[[File:MarshalGeorgyZhukov 8757.jpg|frame|Marshal Georgy Zhukov ''earned'' all these medals.<ref>Who do you think dragged the Great Purges-decimated Red Army from the brink of defeat against the Nazis' surprise invasion, after he beat the Japanese so soundly they gave up beforehand?</ref>]]
{{quote|The officers were all wearing so many decorations a sniper wouldn't have known who to aim at first.|''[[Saga of Tanya the Evil|Saga of Tanya the Evil (LN)]]''}}
A military (or police) officer wears on his person an improbably large number of medals and other decorations for their age/rank/duration of service. Forms this trope can take include...
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Often found on [[The Generalissimo]]. See also [[Bling of War]].
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== Films ==
* In ''[[Seven Days in May]]'' (though it's worth mentioning that the amount of real estate on his chest isn't ludicrous, and is probably a reasonable amount for someone of his rank):
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*** In the ''Memory'' example, Miles had two major medals... from both governments that were involved in previous war. He usually wears one or other, but at one event he wore both at once among lot of other medals. People were shocked as he's really fragile midget due to development problems by poison while his mother was pregnant with him. He even has a Cetagandan Order Of Merit, for service to his planet's (Barrayar's) ''former enemy'', an award which a Cetegandan would literally kill for, and which seems a bit weird considering Miles's ancestors quite notably defeated Cetaganda bloodily.
* The Supreme Custodian in ''[[Septimus Heap]]'' is depicted as this.
* Early in Helen MacInnes' ''Decision at Delphi'', the main character is debriefed by Greek intelligence officials ca. 1960. One of them is a colonel with "four rows of close-packed ribbons on his solid chest." All of which, someone mentions the next day, were earned the hard way. In an irony, it turns out these particular officials were brought into the matter by a traitor who thought the Colonel Badass was a has-been, not clever enough to pose any threat. [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'': in a sketch about a wheelchair race we see one of the participants pre-race talking with someone, shot from below. He's got a chest full of medals. He crosses his legs, at which time we see he's even got medals on the soles of his shoes.
* The British DJ/comedian [[Kenny Everett]] used to have a character on his TV show who was a fire-breathing American [[General Ripper]], frequently crashing into the sketch through a wall. He had massive shoulder pads on his uniform to allow him to show off the ludicrous number of medals he wore.
* ''[[Star Trek: The
* This is repeated in the ''[[Star Trek: The
** For your information, images of Kirk and Data's awards (among others) can be found [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_decorations here].
* ''[['Allo 'Allo!|Allo Allo]]'' has Captain Bertorelli (a type 3) who has three rows of large, showy, medals (and loads of gold braid):
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