 This carried over to Scouting, whose awards were medals, similar to the military, but were most often worn as ribbons.The first country to switch over from military ribbons to a unique parallel was the United Kingdom, which introduced its knot emblems in 1922.The Boy Scouts of America likewise moved away from allowing Scouters to wear military ribbons, but kept the style, introducing their own ribbons in place of medals in 1934.