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Pages in category "Awards and decorations of the United States Space Force" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
During the First and Second World Wars, the Croix de Guerre medals of France and Belgium, as well as the French Military Medal and Luxembourg War Cross, were further issued as unit citation cords, known as Fourragère. Service members could receive both the individual award and the unit cord; in the case of the later, the unit citation could ...
Female graduates of the Space Force officer candidate school at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. There have been women in the United States Space Force since the branch's inception in 2019. It is the only branch of the United States military where women have always had equal roles. [1] [2] On 23 July 2020 the Space Force obtained its first all ...
The first medal of the war was presented to Roger Donlon for rescuing and administering first aid to several wounded soldiers and leading a group against an enemy force. [45] The first African American recipient of the war was Milton L. Olive III , who sacrificed himself to save others by smothering a grenade with his body. [ 46 ]
The historic award of the nation's third-highest award for valor to a female airman comes at a time when the role of women in ground combat units has been front and center because of critical ...
A medal was also given to all the women who worked as mathematicians, engineers and “human computers” in the U.S. space program from the 1930s to 1970s. ... hired hundreds of women to crunch ...
Current Space Force occupational badges are shared with the Air Force and come in the grades of basic, senior, and master or command. Space Force occupation badges are worn on the left side of the uniform in metal for the service and mess dress uniforms or embroidered in space blue on the OCP uniform.
One of the primary reasons the Space Force was created was to consolidate space forces from across the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and U.S. Navy. [37] In 2020, the Space Training and Readiness Delta (Provisional) was established to form the foundation for Space Training and Readiness Command and incorporate Air Force space units spread across ...