“(Service member) did, with my royal permission, enter this dread region of the earth by crossing the Arctic Circle. Having endured the rigors of winter storm conditions with frequent hurricane-force winds, seasons of 24-hour daylight and 24-hour night, mukluks, icebergs, ‘Archies,’ iron pants, and the like; and having served the minimum apprenticeship north of the Arctic Circle, with the Armed Forces of the United States of America, is hereby accorded the honor as a Knight of the Blue Nose. All Frigid Brothers and Sisters are commanded to give this distinguished personage due recognition under penalty of banishment from the Arctic Order, Knights of the Blue Nose.”
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