A small point about sailors and soldiers getting decoration (9)
I believe the answer is:
adornment
'decoration' is the definition.
(adornment is a kind of decoration)
'a small point about sailors and soldiers' is the wordplay.
'small point' becomes 'dot' (I've seen this before).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'sailors' becomes 'rn' (abbreviation for Royal Navy).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'soldiers' becomes 'men' (I've seen this before).
'rn'+'men'='rnmen'
'dot' going around 'rnmen' is 'dornment'.
'a'+'dornment'='ADORNMENT'
'getting' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for adornment that I've seen before include "decking" , "Trim" , "form of beautification?" , "decorating" , "Embellishment" .)