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An earlier award, the Navy "E" Award, had been created in 1906 during Theodore Roosevelt's administration. [1] [2] By the end of World War I, the Navy "E" Award had been joined by the Army "A" Award and the Army-Navy Munitions Board "Star". These three separate awards continued until seven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor had pulled the ...
A 5 ⁄ 16 inch star (9.7mm) is a miniature gold or silver five-pointed star that is authorized by the United States Armed Forces as a ribbon device to denote subsequent awards for specific decorations of the Department of the Navy, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Robert Franklin Foley (born May 30, 1941) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served in the Vietnam War. He received the Medal of Honor for leading his unit in an assault on a strong enemy position on November 5, 1966, during Operation Attleboro .
General Dynamics F-16C Block 30, AF Serial No. 85-1412 of the 301st Fighter Wing , NAS Fort Worth JRB, Carswell Field, Texas Lockheed C-130H-LM Hercules, AF Serial No. 85-1362 from the Texas Air National Guard's 136th Airlift Wing based at NAS Fort Worth JRB, Carswell Field on the ramp at Bagram AB, Afghanistan on Wednesday, 31 May 2006.
Hero of the Russian Federation, the medal succeeding the aforementioned Soviet medal, also awarded as a gold star; Gold Star Order, awarded in Vietnam; Gold Star Service Banner, United States service flag for family of members who died during military service; Gold 5/16 inch star, a United States ribbon device indicating an additional award
However, the medal and ribbon of the fourth degree (Legionnaire) are used for members of the Armed Forces of the United States. [125] The US Army and US Air Force do not authorize the "V" Device for the Legion of Merit. The U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, [126] and the United States Coast Guard do. [127]
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.
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Navy Cross to Captain Harold C. Roberts (MCSN: 0-3825), United States Marine Corps, for distinguished service in the line of his profession while acting as second in command of the Coco River Expedition in Nuevo Segovia ...