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The Silver Star Medal is a gold five-pointed star, 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (38 mm) in circumscribing diameter with a laurel wreath encircling rays from the center and a 3 ⁄ 16 inch (4.8 mm) diameter silver star superimposed in the center. The pendant is suspended from a rectangular shaped metal loop with rounded corners.
Pages in category "Recipients of the Silver Star" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,873 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
PHOTO: U.S. Air Force Gen. James Hecker, U.S. Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa commander, awards Capt. Lacie Hester, 494th Fighter Squadron F-15E weapon systems officer, with the Silver ...
Silver Star: 2nd Battalion 4th Marines: April 6–7, 2004 [32] Ramadi (First Battle) Repeatedly exposed himself to intense small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire while leading his company in the elimination of 250 insurgents during a two-day period, personally destroying several enemy fighting positions. [32] Steven Davis: Staff Sergeant ...
Colonel Jose L. Holguin, USAF: Silver Star recipient and POW during World War II. Colonel James K. Johnson, USAF: Korean war ace with 11 kills. Recipient of three DFCs. Colonel Charles H. MacDonald, USAF: recipient of six DFCs. Colonel Ashley Chadbourne McKinley, USAF: Photographer on first flight over the South Pole.
Leigh Ann Hester (born January 12, 1982) [2] is a United States Army National Guard soldier. While assigned to the 617th Military Police Company, [3] a Kentucky Army National Guard unit out of Richmond, Kentucky, [3] Hester received the Silver Star for her heroic actions on 20 March 2005 during an enemy ambush on a supply convoy near the town of Salman Pak, Iraq.
The President of the United States of America, under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Captain Joseph McConnell Jr., United States Air Force, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United Nations ...
Michael Wess, a Hot Springs resident, served as a Navy corpsman with the United States Marines in the Vietnam War, earning a Silver Star Medal.