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	Army Commendation Medal
		The Army Commendation Medal is awarded by the U.S. Army for acts of valor, heroism, or meritorious service.
		The medal is a bronze hexagon 1 3/8 inches wide bearing an eagle and a laurel sprig and the words "For military merit" and hangs from a striped ribbon of myrtle green and white.
		The medal was initiated on December 6, 1941 and may be awarded to American and allied soldiers below the rank of general.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ar/Army_Commendation_Medal.html (131 words)

	Navy Commendation Star
		The Navy Commendation Star was a decoration of the United States Navy which was authorized in 1918 as an attachment to the World War I Victory Medal.
		The Navy Commendation Star was identical to the Silver Citation Star, issued by the United States Army.
		Unlike the Citation Star, however, the Navy Commendation Star was not upgradeable to the Silver Star Medal nor was the device retroactive to other service medals, besides the World War I Victory Medal.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/n/na/navy_commendation_star.html (226 words)

	Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox established the Navy Commendation Ribbon on November 1, 1943, and announced its creation by ALNAV 11 of January 11, 1944.
		It was predestinated as the Navy Commendation Ribbon With Metal Pendant on March 22, 1950, and as the Navy Commendation Medal on September 21, 1960.
		The Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal may be awarded to service members who, while serving in any capacity with the Navy or Marine Corps, distinguish themselves by heroism, outstanding achievement or meritorious service (but not of sufficient nature to warrant a higher decoration).
	www.marine65-69.com /docs/Navy%20and%20Marine%20Corps%20Commendation%20Medal.htm (668 words)

	Navy Commendation Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		• The ribbon to the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal consists of a field of Myrtle Green with a white stripe one quarter inch wide situated one-eighth of an inch inside each edge of the ribbon.
		• The Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal may be awarded to service members who, while serving in any capacity with the Navy or Marine Corps, distinguish themselves by heroism, outstanding achievement or meritorious service (but not of sufficient nature to warrant a higher decoration).
		Originally created as a ribbon called the Navy Commendation Ribbon, it was the first of the commendation awards.
	www.waltcummings.com /career/medals/navcom.htm (575 words)

	Precision Medals -Navy Achievement Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal was authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, May 1, 1961.
		The award was originally known as the Secretary of the Navy Commendation for achievement.
		The Navy Achievement Medal may also be awarded to members of the armed forces of a friendly foreign nation consistent with the eligibility requirements specified in chapter 6.
	www.precisionmedals.com /awards/nach.htm (286 words)

	Navy & Marine Corps Commendation Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The decoration was originally only a ribbon and the medal pendant was authorized on March 22, 1950 by a Secretary of the Navy directive.
		It was redesignated "Navy Commendation Medal" in 1960.
		This bronze medal, designed by Thomas Hudson Jones of the Army's Institute of Heraldry, is a hexagon with one point up.
	www.cicerocollectibles.com /USMedals/MedalPages/NavyCommendation.html (242 words)

	Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal
		The Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal may be awarded to members of the Armed Forces in the grades of lieutenant commander (or major) and below.
		The act or service must be noteworthy; it must be sufficiently sustained to demonstrate a high state of development (if for a specific achievement, it must be of such merit as to earn singular recognition); and, it must reflect most creditably on the efforts of the individual towards the accomplishment of the unit mission.
		The ribbon is myrtle green (suggested by the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal).
	foxfall.com /fmd-navy-ach.htm (445 words)

	Commendation Resource Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A commendation ceremony (commendatio) is a formal ceremony that evolved The purpose of the commendation was to make a chosen person a vassal of a lord.
		Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox established the Navy Commendation Ribbon on It was redesignated as the Navy Commendation Ribbon With Metal Pendant on
		The Air Force Commendation Medal was established on March 28, 1959.
	santa-letters.mediatour.biz /santa-letters/commendation.html (296 words)

	Army Commendation Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Army Commendation Medal is awarded to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States other than General Officers who, while serving in any capacity with the Army after 6 December 1941, distinguished himself/herself by heroism, meritorious achievement or meritorious service.
		Division indicated that the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Air Force had authorized a medal pendant to be established for the Commendation Ribbon and requested that a proposed design be prepared.
		On 20 March 1950, the Secretary of the Navy approved the Navy Commendation Ribbon, and authorized use of the same pendant with a different ribbon on 6 April 1950.
	www.ncopd.com /Articles/11299.html (593 words)

	The Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal was orginally established on May 1, 1961 by John Connally, Secretary of the Navy.
		It ranks below the Navy Commendation Medal and is awarded to junior officers and enlisted personnel of the Navy or Marine Corps who distinguish themselves by outstanding professional achievement or leadership on or after May 1, 1961.
		This bronze medal was designed by Arnold P. Simmons and sculpted by Lewis J. King, Jr., both of the Army Heraldic Section.
	www.dgtraining.net /cicero/USMedals/MedalPages/AchieveNavy.html (288 words)

	Army Commendation Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Army Commendation Medal (ARCOM) was authorized in 1945 by War Department Circular 377 as a commendation ribbon and was awarded to members of the Army for heroism, meritorious achievement or meritorious service after December 6, 1941.
		This award is unique because it began as a ribbon-only award and then became a medal; the pendant was not authorized until 1949 and was designated as the Commendation Ribbon With Metal Pendant.
		Additional awards are indicated by an oak leaf cluster on the ribbon of the Commendation Medal.
	www.dgtraining.net /cicero/USMedals/MedalPages/ArmyCommendation.html (362 words)

	NPR : Navy Hero to Earn Medal for 1942 Surgery at Sea
		All Things Considered, February 19, 2005 · In Sept. 1942, as the Japanese forces continued to hold the South Pacific, the USS Seadragon entered the enemy waters of the South China Sea.
		Aboard the Navy submarine, Seaman 1st Class Darrell Rector was suffering from stomach pains, but with no doctor on board, he had turned to Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes for help.
		The chief surgeon was a twenty-three-year-old pharmacist's mate wearing a blue blouse with white-taped collar and squashy white duck cap.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4503760&sourceCode=RSS (2150 words)

	Naval flight school - NU NROTC - Aviation
		Between 1942 and 1945, the Navy operated a Pre-Flight School on The University of Georgia campus.
		Navy Commendation Medal with gold star; and 2 NASA Space Flight Medals.
		These two men had begun their Navy careers as primary flight instructors and had known The Navy had three categories of instrument flight qualification.
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	Commendation Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Commendation Medal is a mid-level award of the United States military which is awarded for sustained acts of heroism or meritorious service.
		For actions where such performance was in direct contact with an enemy force, a "V" device is authorized to denote valor.
		Each branch of the U.S. military issues its own version of the Commendation Medal, with a fifth version existing for acts of joint military service performed under the Department of Defense.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/commendation_medal (508 words)

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		Navy Information Operations Command, San Diego in San Diego (Present employment) As a Computer Network Defense Analyst our mission is to provide U.S. Navy warships with tools and training to secure unclassified networks within the 3rd, 5th, and 7th Fleet Area of Responsibilities.
		United Stated Navy (Present employment) Junior Salior of the Year for 2004 Joint Commendation Medal Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal Joint Task Force in Iraq October 2004 to February 2005 As a SIGINT analyst deployed to Iraq, I was responsible for providing time sensitive intelligence to ground force commanders.
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	Air Force Commendation Medal
		Ribbon: The ribbon to the Air Force Commendation Medal is predominantly yellow, with its center bisected by a stripe of Air Force Blue.
		Criteria: The Air Force Commendation Medal may be awarded to members of the Armed Forces of the United States below the grade of Brigadier General who, while serving in any capacity with the Air Force, distinguish themselves by heroism, outstanding achievement, or by meritorious service not of a sufficient nature to justify a higher award.
		The Air Force Commendation Medal was designed and sculpted by Thomas Hudson Jones (1892-1969) of the Army's Institute of Heraldry.
	www.gruntsmilitary.com /afcm.shtml (295 words)

	Army Commendation Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Army Commendation Medal is awarded by the U. The Army Commendation Medal is awarded by the U.S. Army for acts of valor, heroism, or meritorious service.
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		It included, among other things, half a dozen green colonies of red and fl ants; several white grubs dug out of the of a ground-plover that had failed to hatch; and, in the vegetable he pulled down tender poplar shoots and nipped the ends.
	www.termsdefined.net /ar/army-commendation-medal.html (333 words)

	Operations Research Department--Naval Postgraduate School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wayne Hughes is a retired Navy Captain whose teaching and research center around campaign analysis, operational logistics, theory of combat, naval tactics and analysis, command and control, and information warfare.
		He was Aide to Under Secretary of the Navy R. James Woolsey.
		At the Naval Postgraduate School for twenty-four years, he served in the Chair of Applied Systems Analysis and was the first incumbent in the Chair of Tactical Analysis.
	www.nps.navy.mil /GSOIS/bio_hughes.htm (660 words)

	The Army Commendation Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Medals awarded for participation in the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991.
		The medal is in mint condition, and has a unique 'crimped-slot' brooch.
		This would date the award to the early medal strikes just after the United States began using the crimp brooch method (pre 1950), and where the remaining stock of slot brooches were being used.
	www.marksmedals.com /us_medals_files/arcom.html (515 words)

	Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal
		The Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal was designed and sculpted by
		In the center of a bronze hexagon one and three-eighths inches wide, there is an eagle with horizontally displayed wings bearing on its breast a shield paly of thirteen pieces and a chief.
		The ribbon to the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal consists of a field of Myrtle Green with a white stripe one quarter inch wide situated one-eighth of an inch inside each edge of the ribbon.
	foxfall.com /fmd-navy-com.htm (606 words)

	Army Commendation Medal @ armyawards.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Army Commendation Medal (ARCOM) was established by War Department Circular 377 on 18 December 1945 and amended in DA General Orders 10 on 31 March 1960.
		Award may be made to a member of the Armed Forces of a friendly foreign nation who, after 1 June 1962, distinguishes himself or herself by an act of heroism, extraordinary achievement, or meritorious service which has been of mutual benefit to a friendly nation and the United States.
		Awards of the Army Commendation Ribbon and of the Commendation Ribbon with Metal Pendant were redesignated by DA General Orders 10, 31 March 1960, as awards of the Army Commendation Medal, without amendment of orders previously issued.
	www.armyawards.com /arcom.shtml (217 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Navy honors WWII vet for sub surgery
		RALEIGH, N.C. — The Navy on Sunday honored a former pharmacists' mate with a commendation medal, more than 60 years after he saved a young sailor's life by performing an emergency appendectomy aboard a submarine during World War II.
		Wheeler Lipes performed the surgery in 1942, with his patient stretched out on a dining table as their submarine lie submerged 120 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean.
		Lipes, 84, said past efforts to award him the Navy Commendation Medal failed because government officials believed a statute of limitations had passed.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600113602,00.html (642 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Military -- Navy honors sailor who performed lifesaving surgery aboard submarine in ...
		Though a news report on Wheeler Lipes' feat aboard the USS Seadragon amid World War II won a Pulitzer Prize and prompted the Navy to make a movie about his actions, Lipes was never honored.
		Lipes, now 84, was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal.
		He said past efforts to award him the medal failed because officials believed a statute of limitations had passed.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/military/20050221-0718-submarinesurgery.html (650 words)

	Precision Medals - NMC Commendation Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal was authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, January 11, 1944--originally known as the "Navy Commendation Ribbon." On March 22, 1950, the Secretary of the Navy established the metal pendant for that award.
		It is awarded to persons who, while serving in any capacity with the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps (including foreign military personnel and members of U.S. Reserve components on active or in inactive duty), distinguish themselves after December 6, 1941, by heroic or meritorious achievement or service.
		Worthy of special recognition, but not to the degree required for the Bronze Star Medal when combat is involved or the Navy and Marine Corps Medal when combat is not involved.
	www.precisionmedals.com /awards/ncomm.htm (387 words)

	Navy Unit Commendation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Navy Unit Commendation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		It is also awarded for non-combat service, in support of military operations, which was outstanding when compared to other units or organizations performing similar service.
		The Coast Guard equivalent is the (Click link for more info and facts about Coast Guard Unit Commendation) Coast Guard Unit Commendation.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/navy_unit_commendation.htm (90 words)

	Army Commendation Medal
		The Army Commendation Medal is awarded to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States other than General Officers who, while serving in any capacity with the Army after 6 December 1941, distinguished himself by heroism, meritorious achievement or meritorious service.
		Award may be made to a member of the Armed Forces of a friendly foreign nation who, after 1 June 1962, distinguishes himself by an act of heroism, extraordinary achievement, or meritorious service which has been of mutual benefit to a friendly nation and the United States.
		DA General Order No. 10, dated 31 March 1960, renamed the Commendation Ribbon with Medal Pendant to the Army Commendation Medal.
	www.gruntsmilitary.com /acm.shtml (518 words)

	ipedia.com: Joe Kernan Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kernan entered the United States Navy in 1969 and served as a Naval Flight Officer aboard the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk.
		Kernan was repatriated in 1973 and continued on active duty with the Navy until December of 1974.
		Kernan received the Navy Commendation Medal, two Purple Hearts and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
	www.ipedia.com /joe_kernan.html (306 words)

	Military Medals, Vietnam War, War Medals, Navy Medals, Military Awards, Presidential Unit Citation, Navy Unit ...
		The following are U.S. and Foreign Military Medals won by the author and his unit from July 1968 to July 1969.
		Authorized on February 17, 1969, this ribbon is awarded to members of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard for combat action service.
		On 23 February U.S. Navy units and installations at Da Nang, Tan An, Ben Luc, Go Dau Ha, and Tra Cu came under numerous and widespread attacks associated with a new enemy offensive, but since many units in these areas were poised to meet these attacks they caused only minimal damage.
	www.riverinesailor.com /awards.htm (2277 words)

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