enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Honorable Service Lapel Button - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorable_Service_Lapel_Button

    The Honorable Service Lapel Button, colloquially called "Ruptured Duck" by the members of the military, was a lapel button awarded for honorable Federal military service between 1925 and 1946. [1] The award, designed by Anthony de Francisci, was issued for wear on the left lapel of civilian clothing upon discharge.

  3. Adjusted Service Rating Score - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjusted_Service_Rating_Score

    The Adjusted Service Rating Score was the system that the United States Army used at the end of World War II in Europe to determine which soldiers were eligible to be repatriated to the United States for discharge from military service as part of Operation Magic Carpet. This system was referred to as "The Point System" by U.S. soldiers. [1]

  4. Military discharge - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_discharge

    With a dishonorable discharge, all or almost all benefits are forfeited, regardless of any past honorable service, and this type of discharge is regarded as shameful in the military. As with many bad conduct discharges, dishonorable discharges are normally preceded by military prison sentences and are formally issued after completion of both ...

  5. Opinion: Why an 'honorable' discharge is a part of a ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/opinion-why-honorable-discharge...

    This Veterans Day, consider the injustices created by the Pentagon's subjective decisions about servicemembers' honor and shame.

  6. Division insignia of the United States Army - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_insignia_of_the...

    View history; General What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Permanent link; Page information; ... [World War II] 10th Infantry Division. June 1948 - June 1958.

  7. 44th Infantry Division (United States) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44th_Infantry_Division...

    The 44th Infantry Division was a division of the United States Army National Guard from October 1920 to November 1945, when it was inactivated after Federal Service during World War II. A second 44th Infantry Division existed in the Illinois Army National Guard from 1946 until October 1954, when that division was disbanded after federal service ...

  8. Awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awards_and_decorations_of...

    The last single service award was issued in 1960 when Congress authorized the awarding of the Four Chaplains' Medal recognizing the Four Chaplains who died together during World War II. [6] There have been no single service awards issued since by the U.S. military, mainly due to the decline and complications of awarding commemorative service ...

  9. Alaska Territorial Guard - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Territorial_Guard

    Discharge ceremony, 2008. In 2000 Alaska's senior US Senator, Ted Stevens, sponsored a bill ordering the Secretary of Defense to issue Honorable Discharges to all Americans who served in the Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG). [11] Stevens was himself a World War II veteran, flying with the Army Air Corps in China.