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At the same time, recipients of the Medal of Honor recognized that the Grand Army of the Republic and other veterans organizations had begun presenting awards that resembled the Medal of Honor, and that a large number of impostors were pretending to be war heroes. As a result, the Medal of Honor Legion was created to protect the integrity of ...
U.S. Military Awards for Valor is a website published by the United States Department of Defense established in 2012 to track recipients of awards and decorations of the United States military. It currently contains the complete list of Medal of Honor recipients for actions since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The Confederate Medal of Honor is a posthumous award created by the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) in 1977 to recognize Confederate veterans who "distinguished themselves conspicuously by gallantry, bravery, and intrepidity at the risk of life, above and beyond the call of duty" during the American Civil War.
The Medal of Valor is the country's highest award for public safety officers. ... -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday recognized seven veterans of the Korean and Vietnam wars with the Medal of ...
The American Merchant Marine Veterans organization wants to award him the Convoy Cup Award. The award recognizes courage under enemy fire, which Vande Linde endured during the convoys he accompanied.
The 1917 Medal of Honor Board revoked 911 awards, but only 910 names from the Army's Medal of Honor list, [178] including awards to Mary Edwards Walker, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and the first of two awards issued February 10, 1887, to George W. Mindil, who retained his award issued October 25, 1893. None of the 910 impacted recipients ...
Former president Donald Trump on Thursday continued his pattern of insulting the country’s most revered military veterans by claiming a top civilian award is more prestigious than the Medal of ...
The Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB) is a United States Army military decoration.The badge is awarded to infantrymen and Special Forces soldiers in the rank of colonel and below, who fought in active ground combat while assigned as members of either an Infantry or Special Forces unit of brigade size or smaller at any time after 6 December 1941.