The Emblem for Reserve Force Service is a South African military award. It was instituted on 27 April 2003, and may be awarded to members of the part-time Reserve Force of the South African National Defence Force after twenty years of service, provided that at least five of those years have been served in the Reserve Force or in the former part-time military forces which preceded it. A recipient is entitled to use the post-nominal letters RD (for "Reserve Force Distinction").
The emblem consists of the letters RD, in silver. It is worn on the ribbon of the Medalje vir Troue Diens.
Famous quotes containing the words emblem, reserve, force and/or service:
“Talking in bed ought to be easiest,
Lying together there goes back so far,
An emblem of two people being honest.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don’t count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)
“The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)