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{{quote|'''Newman''': ''You're a disgrace to the uniform. <nowiki>*rips off badge*</nowiki>''
'''Jerry''': ''You know, this is'' your ''coat.''
'''Newman''': ''[[Failed Attempt At Drama|...Damn!]]''
|''[[Seinfeld]]'' }}
That's it. You've had it with the organization you work for. They've [[Bad Boss|made you work too hard]], they've [[Fallen Hero|grown corrupt]], or [[Utopia Justifies the Means|they've done something morally questionable]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|in pursuit of their goals]]. You're quitting, but you don't just want to turn in your Two Weeks Notice and walk off the job. You want to let your employers know just how disgusted you are with them. What better way to do that than by walking up to them, tearing off your chevrons, ranking insignias, and other badges of office and throwing said items into their faces? (If you've recently been awarded a [[Medal of Dishonor|Medal for Valor]] or for some other reason, feel free to rip that off and cast it dramatically to the floor as well. Your employers should get the message.)
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{{examples}}
▲== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* In a flashback of ''[[Naruto]]'', Itachi throws a kunai at an Uchiha clan crest on a wall before denouncing the clan at one point after he {{spoiler|kills Shisui}} and before his massacre. The Akatsuki members with visible headbands and Sasuke {{spoiler|who may or may not count}}, have slashes through the the emblem of the village to which they formerly swore allegiance.
* ''[[Tower of God]]'': After Baam's fall, Leroro, at this point disgusted with the procedures of the tower's adinistrative staff, storms into [[The Chessmaster|Yu Han-Sung's]] office and turns in his Ranker Badge. After that, an upset Quant protests to Han-Sung that he let him leave, to which the latter replies by taking his badge as well and sending him off, stating that they only came as a pair.
* ''[[The Big O]]'': Dan Dastun [[Shaming the Mob|shames]] the military police with a speech about them following Alex Rosewater’s deranged leadership and then performs the Insignia Rip Off Ritual. Later, the rest of the military police [[Turn in Your Badge|follows his example]] and attacks Alex Rosewater. [http://www.paradigm-city.com/scripts/article.php?a=ep26\], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgy5w8jRxWA\], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR9hs-M3GTQ\], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amw3DwVXHGU\]
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', after learning that Arlong had Nezumi steal all the money she worked for eight years to earn, Nami begins stabbing the Arlong Pirates tattoo on her arm in anger. In the fourth movie, Gasparde has the Marine emblem crossed out on his ship.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' after a bunch of central soldiers are shown how utterly corrupt the High Command of Central is, they refuse to follow orders, and rip off their ranks and Amestris insignia and throw them at the General.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Parodied in a 1970s ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' cartoon by Don Martin. An army officer rips off his subordinate's insignia and epaulets, unsheathes the subordinate's sword, hoists his knee in the air to snap it in half...and accidentally amputates his own lower leg.
* Used in a
** In another Legion story, Ultra Boy's emblem was [https://web.archive.org/web/20190928065258/http://www.comicbookdb.com/graphics/comic_graphics/1/90/48829_20060705101521_large.jpg burned off] when the Legion believed he was a fugitive who had joined under false pretenses. (Oddly, that ''didn't'' leave a hole in his costume.)
** Of course none of those
* In the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'', Luke's childhood friend Janek "Tank" Sunber became an Imperial officer and served in a long, grueling campaign against basically endless waves of primitive tribal aliens. His tactics and work ethic seriously impressed the general in charge, who gave him a field promotion to commander before dying. However, a captain who was jealous about being passed up refused to verify the promotion, and Tank was humiliatingly stripped of his rank as soon as they were offworld. Unusually, Tank stayed Imperial even with a few doubts, even becoming a [[Fake Defector]] at Vader's order. {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]. Wow, all of Luke's old friends who pop up in the EU die.}}
** {{spoiler|No, he survived. And in fact, his escape pod left Rebel One and was rescued by the Empire.}}
* In a ''[[Superboy]]'' (90s clone version) story, [[Supergirl]] (90s Matrix version) tries to persuade him to come with her and sort out why he's currently a wanted fugitive. When he refuses, she uses her telekinesis to pull the S-shields off his chest and the back of his jacket.
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* In ''[[Gladiator (film)|Gladiator]]'', Maximus cuts up his arm where his Roman tattoo is in angry sorrow that the country he defended betrayed him.
* A particularly wonderful parodic example occurs in the film ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' when Mr. Banks is being dismissed from his job. The entire thing is played off as a solemn, hallowed ritual—but one that involves Mr. Bank's bowler hat and umbrella getting destroyed in an overblown, stylized manner. (Meanwhile, his fellow employees are looking on in horror, gasping "No -- Not that!" as his umbrella is turned inside-out.)
* ''[[Star Trek:
** There's no dramatic ripping, but notice that when the gang decides to ship-jack the Enterprise in ''[[Star Trek III: The
* ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'' plays with this trope. Early on, Brendan Fraser's character gets fired and undergoes the ritual, having his security guard insignia torn off of his shirt. And then, he's ordered to turn in the shirt as well.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Adenoid Hynkel]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmyepgjegS4 does this] to the Goering [[Expy]] in [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s ''[[The Great Dictator]]'' after one failure too many. He removes ''all'' the badges and flings them away one by one, then proceeds to attack the jacket itself.
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* A poignant moment at the end of ''[[High Noon]]'', where {{spoiler|Will Kane takes off his sheriff's badge and drops it in on the ground in front of the town that's abandoned him}}.
* Inverted in the very first scene of ''[[Patton]]'' where the eponymous general is promoted, and immediately takes his new insignia [[Crazy Prepared|out of his pocket]] and glues them onto his uniform. (A subordinate protested that the promotion was not official until approved by the Senate, but legal niceties never troubled George Patton in the slightest.)
* In ''[[The A-Team (film)|The
* ''[[Iron Eagle II]]'' has a scene where after deciding to work together after all to take down the bad guys, the American and Soviet pilots all rip the velcro flag patches off their flightsuits.
* Referenced in ''[[Twelve O
* A Jerry Lewis movie (
* In the third ''[[RoboCop]]'' movie, the Detroit cops in a police station are ordered by an OCP company director to expel by force some civilian from their houses (so that OCP can level the block for redevelopment). One of the older veterans refuses, yanks off his badge and throws it on the floor. The whole unit then walks past the director, each throwing their badge down. The director then used the prisoners/criminals to perform the task, along with its own para-military unit.
{{quote|'''Johnson:''' Now, sergeant... 15 years on the force is quite an investment. Your job, your pension. Maybe instead of worrying about these squatter people, you might think about your own family.
'''Sgt. Reed''' I am. I'm thinking I have to go home and face them. }}
* This happens early in ''[[Up]]!''; when Charles Muntz is suspected of having fabricated the skeleton of the mysterious monster from Paradise Falls, he loses his membership in an explorer's society and is seen having the badges ripped off his jacket.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* Happens in ''[[Tortall Universe|Bloodhound]]'' to two officers who fled the Bread Riot.
* In the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' universe, this is the kind of ceremony used when someone is cashiered from the [[Space Is an Ocean|space navy]]. The characters who experience this tend to deserve it; it takes a ''lot'' for a member of the peerage to be kicked out of the Royal Manticoran Navy. The fourth book has one of these ceremonies as its central premise and [[Title Drop]], complete with breaking the officer's sword. It also happens at least once in flashback, in the backstory of a villain who is an ex-military officer.
** The most notable incident of this is the cashiering of Pavel Young, who had embarrassed the
* "Danny Deever
* ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Memory]]'' by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] combines the flavors. Asked to resign, Miles Vorkosigan is upset but reasonably stable until he's told to give back his insignia...at which point the dam breaks. He first gets hysterical, {{spoiler|then collapses in one of the seizures which he had been trying to hide from his chain of command}}, then becomes angry, and he tears them off. Several of his friends happen to see him leave; seeing the torn places where the insignia were, they think Miles's ''superior'' tore them off.
* In [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[Starship Troopers (novel)|Starship Troopers]]'', a child-killer in the protagonist's unit is subjected to this by MI authorities. Even uniform buttons are removed. This is before he's executed by hanging. The act is described with a euphemistic nod:
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Parodied in
** For his part [[All Trolls Are Different|Sgt. Detritus]] says he has his badge carved into his arm (presumably to highlight his commitment to the force and not as a rule for trolls) and anyone is welcome to try and take it off him if they like.
** Sargent Jackrum of ''[[
* Played perfectly straight in the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' with the second novel of the second Han Solo
** With Imperial officers, rank tends to come in both those square multicolored badges and in "rank cylinders" set into special pockets in their uniforms. At one point in the ''[[X Wing Series]]'' a high-ranked character looks at an agitated lower-ranked character and says something to the effect of "If you don't calm down, your rank cylinders will just fall out", mortifying the lower-ranked Imperial and causing him to cover them.
** Also implied to happen for the Corellian Bloodstripes (like the modern day Medal of Honor), although Han didn't lose his during his discharge because they were awarded by the Corellian military and not the Empire's military.
* In the novel ''By the Sword'' of the ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series, Kerowyn [[Psychic Powers|reads the mind]] of her mercenary company's employer and learns that he intends to avoid paying them by [[We Have Reserves|sending them to certain death]]. She stands up and gives a speech to that effect, rips off her mercenary badge, and storms out to go live the hard life of an unaffiliated merc. {{spoiler|Unbeknownst to her, because she leaves in such a tearing hurry, it inspires the entire rest of the company to similarly "quit," graduating from resignation to an odd form of [[Disaster Democracy]]. Eventually, they track her down and make her the Captain of the reformed company.}}
* Shortly before the Mutiny broke out in India, [[Flashman]] witnesses several sepoys subjected to this for refusing to bite the paper cartridges for the new Enfield rifles. The sepoys were a mixture of Muslims and Hindus and the cartridges were rumoured to be greased with beef tallow and pork fat; Flashman discovers that they were in fact ''waxed.''
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' novels, Gaunt does this to {{spoiler|General Sturm}}. It features, and is inverted in ''Necropolis'', when {{spoiler|Gaunt removes the blowhard, glory-hungry Commissar Kowle's rank insignia, but when Kowle sacrifices a grenade bandoleer and his arms to destroy a Chaos beast, Gaunt also restores them}}.
* When magicians are exiled in ''[[The Black Magician Trilogy]]'', the highest ranking members of the guild make a small rip in their robes and say "I cast you out, [name]. Do not enter my lands again". Then ''every'' other magician in the guild performs the ritual. Then they are escorted out of the city, stopping at every intersection to have their crimes and punishment announced. From there they're taken to the border, where their crimes are announced again and the guard are told to remember their faces. When they rip your insignia off, [[Serious Business|they don't mess around]].
* Right at the end of the very first issue of ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'', the titular character and then-Major of the US Space Force takes advantage of a quiet moment to himself while standing in the Gobi Desert just after returning from the moon {{spoiler|with an alien passenger and some pieces of extraterrestrial high tech that every nation would dearly love to get their hands on -- 1971 Earth is very much a Cold War setting in that 'verse, though with three major power blocs rather than just two}} to remove his insignia and symbolically break his ties with his former organization.
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* This trope occurs several times throughout [[The Three Musketeers (novel)|the D'Artagnan Romances]], with characters breaking their swords over their knee when they surrender, yield or refuse to obey the King, effectively quitting their job.
* Gandalf breaking Saruman's staff in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' serves both to demonstrate his new power and as an example of this trope, since the staff symbolises his position as one of the Istari.<ref>Hence Saruman's earlier accusation about Gandalf desiring 'the rods of the five wizards'</ref> Also, Denethor's last act before lying down on his burning pyre is to break his own scepter of office over his knee.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' story "Black Colossus", Yasmela demands that Count Thespides return her glove and leave; she doesn't have to actually carry it out.
{{quote|''"Count Thespides," said Yasmela, "you have my glove under your baldric. Please give it to me, and then go."
"Go?" he cried, starting. "Go where?"
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"You wrong me, princess," he answered, bowing low, deeply hurt. "I would not forsake you. For your sake I will even put my sword at the disposal of this savage."'' }}
* [[Subverted]] in the ''[[Wing Commander (novel)|Wing Commander]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novel ''Fleet Action'': {{spoiler|[[Four-Star Badass|Admiral Tolwyn]]}} receives this treatment, only for it to later be revealed as a part of a [[Zero-Approval Gambit]] so that he could go on a secret mission while giving his higher-ups [[Plausible Deniability]].
* Frank G. Slaughter's ''[[Historical Fiction|Flight From Natchez]]'' opens with the main character's court-martial for embezzlement (he was framed) and the ritual includes not only the tearing off of insignia and breaking of his sword (over '''his head''', not the other officer's knee), but a final disgrace still legal at the time though usually no longer used : [[Literal Ass-Kicking|literally booting him]] out of the British Army. Slaughter researched for his novels with great care, so the described procedure is most likely accurate.
== [[Live
* The old TV series ''[[Branded]]'' opened every episode with the hero going through this ritual.
* Subverted in ''[[Seinfeld]]'' with the above quote. Jerry is quick to remind Newman that he's wearing Newman's uniform.
* A comedic example occurs in an episode of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' where TV's Frank gets fired by Dr. Forrester. Not only does Dr. Forrester rip off Frank's "Deep 13" badge, but his iconic forehead curl as well.
* Happens at least [[Once a Season]] in most ''[[Star Trek]]'' series. Since combadges double as tracking devices in the Star Trek universe, this is sometimes as pragmatic as it is idealistic.
** Worf in ''[[Star Trek: The
*** Although there is no insignia ripping, this is the idea behind Worf's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c2etjMl3WM "discommendation"] ceremony.
*** Worf was, at one point, told not to wear Klingon emblems such as the family crest on his baldric during the trial.
*** This ceremony was the result of Quark's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when he maneuvered a corrupt Klingon into getting himself discommendated on the spot.
** By contrast, in one episode of ''[[Star Trek:
*** ''Deep Space Nine'', being [[Darker and Edgier]], had a number of incidents where characters [[I Did What I Had to Do|Do What They Have To Do]], but don't want to disgrace the ideals of Starfleet (and/or don't want to be tracked), so they pull off their combadges to indicate that they are no longer acting as Starfleet officers.
*** In "Paradise Lost" Sisko walks into the office of the Admiral who planned a military coup (and was also Sisko's former captain), yanks the combadge off at phaserpoint, and says that he has come to ask the Admiral for his "resignation". When the coup is stopped, the Admiral finishes the job by laying his rank bars on the table.
*** In [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Inter_Arma_Enim_Silent_Leges_(episode) Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges] Bashir and Ross remove their [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Combadge combadges] for an ‘off the record’ discussion about Section 31. Bashir quotes [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Cicero Cicero] when he compares the United Federation of Planets to [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Caesar Caesar] and [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Rome Rome].
** ''[[Voyager]]'' did this a few times. The Kazons "confiscated" the crew's combadges when they stole their ship. Also, Janeway removed one of Paris's pips when he violated orders and she busted him down to Ensign.
*** Janeway’s decision to demote Paris in [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Thirty_Days_(episode)
*** This is ''[[Star Trek:
* An old episode of British cop show ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]'' saw Dixon collaring a corrupt colleague, demanding that the corrupt copper remove his uniform (jacket only - this is a family show) so that Dixon could arrest him.
* In ''[[CSI]]'' episode "Goodbye and Good Luck," Sara Sidle slowly rips off her badge, hangs her jacket in her trainee's locker, and drops the badge in the garbage can before (''finally!'') kissing Grissom goodbye and [[Put on a Bus|literally climbing on a bus]].
* In ''[[Due South]]'', Inspector Thatcher, cuts Fraser's RCMP lanyard as a symbol of him being suspended after he tries to cover for his sister, Maggie and doesn't arrest her as Thatcher orders.
* In the final episode of the TV series ''[[Jericho]]'', some soldiers vote to rebel against the new "Allied States of America" and rip off their flag patches. It was snarkily noted in some quarters that the patches came off so easily they appeared to have been velcroed on.
** If they were wearing the newest uniform, the Army Combat Uniform (ACU), the flag patch is velcroed, along with the rest of the insignia.
** Earlier, in "Semper Fidelis", Johnston ripped the insignia off of one of the fake marines as they were leaving.
* The French-Canadian TV Show called ''
* Majorly spoofed in an episode of ''[[Married... with Children]]'' where Al became a security guard at his old high school, only to have everything that wasn't nailed down was stolen on his shift. The next scene after this shows the [[Miniature Senior Citizens|tiny gray haired principal]] doing this ritual to Al's uniform, complete with ridiculously sad heroic music in the background. Judging by her reaction to the smell when she rips off part of his shirt insignia, she probably wished she'd gone a more orthodox route in firing him. The sequence in question is a direct parody of the opening of ''Branded'', mentioned above.
* Happens a lot on
* Lampshaded in the "Abyssinia, Henry" episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
** It should be noted that none of his actual military insignia was removed in this scene; Hawkeye and Trapper just ripped the shirt itself.
* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'': Sheldon tries to do this when he steps down from his self-appointed position of captain of the Physics Department paintball team, but because he's weak and he sewed it on too perfectly, it stayed.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Done
* Roger Wilco suffers a humorously over-the-top dismissal from the Star Confederation in this manner at the beginning of ''[[Space Quest]] 6''. The decommissioning officer starts with his insignia, then his uniform sleeves, and by the end of the humiliating speech, he's ripped off Roger's pants and undergarments as well.
** And for punchline his muscles are revealed to be a suit with a zipper, also torn off revealing his less than impressive real upper body.
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** Eric Cartman was in that third grade class. [[Complete Monster|You'd want to be armed too.]]
** Also parodied in the episode where Stan is banished from South Park: Part of the banishment ceremony consists of his neighbors ripping off parts of his parka and spitting on him.
▲* This happens early in ''[[Up]]!''; when Charles Muntz is suspected of having fabricated the skeleton of the mysterious monster from Paradise Falls, he loses his membership in an explorer's society and is seen having the badges ripped off his jacket.
* Done in the [[Classic Disney Short|Disney war short]] "Home Defense"; after [[Donald Duck]] sees through the boys' ruse of an attack, he rips off their chevrons and destroys their (wooden) swords. Then, when he (again falsely) believes he's under attack (and makes sure that it wasn't the boys this time), he sews the chevrons back on and gives them new swords.
* In one episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', when Squidward is fed up with the way the Krusty Krab is treating him, he takes his hat off and stomps on it. He tries to get Spongebob to do it too, but Spongebob can't bring himself to and just steps on it limply.
** Kevin the sea cucumber has his "crown" ripped off after being relieved of his position in the Jellyfishing Club. {{spoiler|Turns out it was part of his head.}}
* In
* Skyfire does this in the ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' episode ''Fire in the Sky'' when he rips off his Decepticon insignia before proclaiming himself an Autobot.
* In an [[Imagine Spot]] on ''[[Doug]]'', Mr. Dink removes all of Doug's Bluff Scout badges and yanks his hat down to his neck.
* ''[[Taz-Mania]]'': Happens to an elderly Francis X. Bushlad when it is discovered that he never completed his manhood ritual.
* In ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'', [[Spin Offspring|Lin Beifong]] does this when she's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|using Metalbending to get dressed]], to show that she is no longer affiliated with the police force.
* In the [[Dr. Seuss]] animated TV special ''[[wikipedia:Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?|Pontoffel Pock]]'' the protagonist is sacked by the owner of a pickle factory, who tears the company's logo off his uniform with an angry "You are a disgrace to your dill pickle badge!"
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The singer Tony Bennett was demoted and reassigned after some remarks he made against the Army's racial segregation policy. His CO ripped off his insignia, spat on it, and told him he was "a private again."
** This is actually a traditional element of military punishment. A famous engraving shows "The Degradation of Dreyfus": The hapless Captain Alfred Dreyfus (of the "Dreyfus Affair" that fiercely divided France in the 1890s and 1900s), framed and convicted for espionage, having his insignia stripped from his uniform and his sword broken before being sent off to Devil's Island.
** The concept of a soldier being "drummed out of the corps" in some particular form of ceremony (which usually involved breaking his sword over his head while a drum played slowly in the background) is [[Older Than Steam]].
* The [[Knight Fever|British orders of Knighthood]] provide for a public degradation ceremony for disgraced Knights. The last victim was Francis Mitchell in 1621, sentenced for 'Grievous Exactions' (abusing a government position). In his case his spurs were broken and thrown away, his belt cut, his sword snapped over his head and a declaration made that he was "no longer Knight but Knave" before he was led away to be imprisoned in The Tower of London.
** For nobles this could be taken further with an "Attainder": an attainted person is not only stripped of their insignia of rank but also of any inherited titles and everything they own, and their children are forcibly disinherited (their lands etc. default to the Crown).
* In [[World War I]], this was inverted to some extent as Allied machine gunners were ''advised'' to rip off their machine gunner patches just prior to been captured by the enemy. This was because the Germans feared the machine guns to the degree that if a prisoner of war was believed to be a machine gunner, he was treated much worse.
** In [[World War II]], prisoners in German [[Those Wacky Nazis|camps]] were identified as part of various groups by insignia on their garments - mostly triangles of various colours, with a Star of David used to identify Jewish prisoners. When the camps were liberated, the inmates ripped these insignia off their garb post-haste.
* [[Truth in Television]] to some extent, as witnessed by quotes from several US veterans of WWII; one submariner in particular recalled a captain who had been relieved as mentally unfit for a frontline command having his dolphins (submariner's insignia) torn off at the very same ceremony as he was awarded a Silver Star for his first patrol, by the same officer who had pinned the medal on.
** A mass ritual was once done to the American Paratroopers in [[WW 2]], as explained in [[Band of Brothers]]. The 506th Regiment was given leave, but almost none of them returned before curfew. The next morning, the commander had the entire unit form up, and then drummed out one soldier from every company, complete with a lieutenant tearing off their jumpwings, stripes, Airborne badges, anything that would mark them as a paratrooper, before being sent off to the regular army with their uniform shredded.
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** Sewn-on ranks normally have most of the threads cut prior to the soldier reporting to the commander for a demotion. This allows the commander to quickly and dramatically tear off the rank insignia to reinforce the psychological impact of the action. Or for the commander to take a razor to the threads in front of their supervisor and anyone else present. Given the cost and time of properly setting up dress uniforms, this has a fairly significant impact
** Although it's pretty common for soldiers to tear off or trade ranks, nametapes, flags, and organizational patches just for the hell of it. Or to screw with one another.
* Similarly, the first
* John Kerry famously threw his medals over the wall of the White House while protesting the Vietnam War in the 1970s. Several of these medals later reappeared in time for his presidential run in 2004. [[Serious Business|Various political opponents asserted that either the medals he threw in 1971 or the medals he wore in 2004 must have been fake.]]
** Political opponents who [[Did Not Do the Research]]. The medals are not the awards, they are symbols of the awards, and replacements can be obtained.
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