I'm in sword detail for the ball later this week and just recently realized how much better mounting your medals look compared to just putting them on the bar. I don't wanna take them to the cleaners and possibly not having them done on time and it's very expensive like you said, they charge about 15 a medal, but this looks very doable. Thank you so much sir.
Good shit man! Been out 10 years now and I never learned how to do this so I thought I'd look it up for fun. Glad to see someone posting this to help out all of the Marines out there.
I'm using your method to mount my late father's Vietnam and post war medals.He was 1st and 3rd Marines,wounded in Operation Starlight.Never got his PH though.