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To determine eligibility and entitlement refer to SECNAVINST 1650.1 (current) (Navy and Marine Corps Award Manual) and SECNAVINST 10520.2 (current). The U.S. Navy flag is for official Navy use only, and shall not be made available to civilian groups, organizations or individuals.
Other military service members may also receive specific Navy Department military awards, provided such service members are performing duty under a Navy or Marine Corps command. Likewise, a Navy or Marine Corps service member may receive medals and decorations of another military branch, if cross assigned to a command of the respective service.
"Army Regulation 600–8–22: Military Awards" (PDF). Headquarters, United States Department of the Army. September 15, 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2011. "SECNAV M-1650.1: Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual" (PDF). The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs). August 16, 2019
Additional awards of the medal are denoted by gold or silver 5 ⁄ 16 inch stars. [2] The Navy and Marine Corps Medal was first bestowed during World War II. However, the medal was awarded retroactively for actions that predated its establishment, "to any person to whom the Secretary of the Navy, before August 7, 1942, awarded a letter of ...
[SECNAV Instruction 1650.1H "Navy And Marine Corps Awards Manual" of 22 22 August 2006] [OPNAV Notice 1650 "Master List of Unit Awards and Campaign Medals" of 9 March 2001] This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
The law made the award retroactive to 6 April 1917. The first award of the decoration was a posthumous presentation to Brigadier General Charles A. Doyen , USMC, on 13 March 1919. Originally senior in precedence to the Navy Cross, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal assumed its current place below the Navy Cross by Congressional action on 7 ...
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The medal was designed by A. A. Weinman and features a sailor beaching a craft carrying Marines, an officer, and a US flag with the word "Expeditions" above. On the reverse of both the Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal and Navy Expeditionary Medal, in the center of the bronze medallion an eagle is shown alight upon an anchor; the eagle is facing to the left and the flukes of the anchor are to ...