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  Navy Good Conduct Medal
The 1948 Navy Awards Manual states that award of the Navy Good Conduct Medals technically began in 1865 when all enlisted men receiving honorable discharges were authorized to wear a fouled anchor on the left sleeve to be called "the honorable discharge badge." A star was to be added for each additional honorable discharge.
This style medal was issued in very limited quantities between 1880 and 1884, probably to fewer than 500 sailors as the Bureau continued to issue the "Nickel Cross" during this period to deplete existing stocks.
The meaning of good conduct was defined for captains by requiring the grading of sailors in specific categories such as seamanship and gunnery.
www.history.navy.mil /medals/gcm.htm   (1434 words)

  
 Good Conduct Medal
The Coast Guard Good Conduct Medal was issued in 1923 and the Army Good Conduct Medal in 1941.
The medal was considered a “transitional decoration” and was the first of the Good Conduct Medals to be worn on a uniform.
The Army Good Conduct Medal is one of the most recognizable of the Good Conduct Medals and remains one of the most widely issued decorations in the history of the United States military.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/good_conduct_medal   (742 words)

  
 Good Conduct Display Recognition
Good Conduct Medal Clasps are awarded and worn on the suspension and service ribbon of the Army Good Conduct Medal for second or subsequent awards of the medal.
This is the same ribbon as the one used by the Navy, with a white stripe to distinguish it as the Coast Guard Good Conduct Medal.
The Air Force Good Conduct Medal derives from the authority establishing the Army Good Conduct Medal; the Air Force version was authorized by Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert on June 1, 1963.
www.amervets.com /replacement/gcm.htm   (5012 words)

  
 Current Navy Good Conduct Medal
The Navy Good Conduct Medal is awarded on a selective basis to recognize four years of continuous active duty, above average conduct and proficiency by enlisted service members in the regular Navy or U.S. Naval Reserve.
Subsequent awards of the Navy Good Conduct Medal are denoted by stars three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter.
The ribbon to the Navy Good Conduct Medal is red and is based on the red stripe in the original three-colored ribbon; it was darkened to avoid its being confused with the ribbon of the Specially Meritorious Service Medal, 1898, which is a brighter shade of red.
www.foxfall.com /gcrm-navy-curr.htm   (458 words)

  
 Precision Medals -Navy Good Conduct   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Navy Good Conduct Medal, originally in the form of a badge, was the first award specifically designed to recognize the military service of an individual.
The medal was originally awarded to recognize the ‘all-around’ good Navy enlisted person, well qualified in all phases of conduct and performance.
A member not eligible for the Good Conduct Medal under the foregoing criteria who reenlists or reports for active duty within 3 months after his/her discharge or release to inactive duty is considered to be serving under "continuous active service" conditions.
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 Original Navy Good Conduct Medal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Navy Good Conduct Medal was established on April 26, 1869, by Secretary of the Navy
The first style Navy Good Conduct Medal was issued to any honorably discharged sailor who was recommended by his commanding officer and was based on the recipient's record of obedience, sobriety, and cleanliness as well as his proficiency in seamanship and gunnery.
Reenlistment with three of these medals allowed the sailor to be rated as a petty officer, with any reduction in rank limited to the sentence of a court martial.
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But he proved to me that he was a good man by taking me into his sitting-room and showing me his tame canary, which did every kind of trick at his command, and sang to him, answered his whistle, and came at his call and kissed him.
This is too much of a good thing, as it is apt to weaken a man. The Romans, as you know, were in the end driven out of their Empire, because they allowed themselves to become weak in mind and in body by too much laziness in theatre-going and continual hot baths.
Boys are good fellows, and when they found somebody thought about them, although they were dirty, ragged urchins, they took an interest in him, until gradually they came at their own desire to hear him talk, and began to imitate him in doing steady work.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He was at first on good terms with Sir J. Dowling (q.v.) who a few months later became chief justice, but in 1839 differences arose, and on one occasion Willis in open court made observations which were taken as a reflection on the chief justice.
A tremendous worker who had little time for hobbies or pastimes, he wrote with good humour and without venom; and even during the bitter period at the end of the eighteen seventies he was admired as a writer and as a man by both his followers and his opponents.
He was making good progress as an astronomer, but in the middle of 1860 was given the third position in the Burke (q.v.) and Wills exploring expedition.
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 Good Conduct Medal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Navy Good Conduct Medal was established on April 26, 1869.
It is given to individuals of 3 years of continuous active duty, who had distinguished himself for obedience, sobriety, and cleanliness, and who had demonstrated proficiency in gunnery and seamanship.
The Good Conduct medal is awarded upon completion of the term of enlistment.
www.nmia.com /~valorc/american/navy/gc.html   (54 words)

  
 Roosevelt, Theodore. 1913. An Autobiography: V. Applied Idealism
There is often much good in the type of boss, especially common in big cities, who fulfills towards the people of his district in rough and ready fashion the position of friend and protector.
There are many good, unimaginative citizens who in politics or in business act in accordance with accepted standards, in a matter-of-course way, without questioning these standards; until something happens which sharply arouses them to the situation, whereupon they try to work for better things.
Taking into account the women who for good reasons do not marry, or who when married are childless or are able to have but one or two children, it is evident that the married woman able to have children must on an average have four or the race will not perpetuate itself.
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 USS Oakland CL-95 WW II History Page 4
The criteria for the medal was announced in DA Circular 84, dated 25 March 1948 and subsequently published in Army Regulation 600-65, dated 22 September 1948.
The medal design was submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts on 22 May 1947 and the first medal was presented to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur on 17 December 1947.
Streamer: The WW II Victory Medal ribbon is not used as a streamer by the Army.
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 Encyclopedia: Good Conduct Medal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Service for the Good Conduct Medal must be performed on active duty and the medal is not awarded to members of the military reserve or National Guard who are not federalized to active service.
For those Reserve and Guard members who satisfactorily perform annual training and drill duty, however, a separate sereis of Reserve Good Conduct Medals may be awarded in lieu.
Enlistment bars, denoting each honorable enlistment completed, were pinned on the ribbon as attachments.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Good-Conduct-Medal   (810 words)

  
 Navy Medal Precedence -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal was originally established as the Secretary of the Navy Commendation for Achievement with Ribbon by Secretary of the Navy John B. Secretary of the Navy changed its name to the Navy Achievement Medal.
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.
Navy Achievement Medal may now also be presented for combat valor, to members of the Navy or Marine Corps.
www.navy.fajf.com /index.php?k=navy-medal-precedence   (914 words)

  
 USN Service Medal Index
merican bluejackets and Marines were without official medals or other visible signs of their overseas service or combat for the first 120 years of the Navy's existence, since orders, medals and decorations were seen as the trappings of royalty and empire and ran contrary to the republican spirit present at the founding of our country.
On rare occasions, Congress authorized special commemorative medals for heroes of dramatic naval victories, but these went chiefly to the vessels' commanding officer and were not medals intended for wear on the naval uniform.
The U.S. Navy followed suit on 27 June 1908, authorizing a series of "badges" for service as distant in time as the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the Boxer Rebellion.
www.history.navy.mil /medals   (413 words)

  
 Royal Navy General Service Medal Ribbon -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Navy Good Conduct Medal was established on April 26, 1869, by Secretary of the Navy A.E. Borie.
Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (Navy) Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (RAF)...
Navy "E" Ribbon was established in July of U.S. Navy ships or in squadrons that have won...
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Good night." The society to which I have subsequently had the good fortune to be admitted, fully justifies the eulogium of Mr.
To bury a good hide, is, waste--waste is wicked.
For she is a good bit of stuff is aunty, as thin, tough, and soople as a painter's palate knife.
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 World War II Memories presented by Eldred World War II Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Whereas many servicemen went through WWII never meeting an old acquaintance, friend or relative, Don seemed to have the opposite good fortune of meeting such people wherever he was stationed, even when he was far away in the China, Burma, India Theater.
Putting his cryptology skills to a good use, he now learned the division would soon spearhead the assault on the island of Peleliu.
On 21 May 1943, the newly commissioned Lieutenant Mitchell Paige was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry in action above and beyond the call of duty during his long night on the ridge.
www.eldredwwiimuseum.org /memory.html   (6732 words)

  
 Honoring and Remembering Ellis Ernest Austin - His Military Medals
The Navy Good Conduct Medal is awarded on a selective basis to enlisted service members of the United States Navy and US Naval Reserve (active duty) for three years of continuous active service of a creditable above-average nature in the areas of professional performance, military behavior, leadership, military appearance and adaptability.
The American Defense Medal was awarded to personnel for active duty service from 8 September 1939 to 7 December 1941 for a period of twelve months or longer.
The Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal was awarded to personnel for service within the Asiatic-Pacific Theater between 7 December 1941 and 2 March 1946 under any of the specified conditions/circumstances.
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 Good Conduct Medal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The new design consisted of a circular Good Conduct medal to be suspended from a maroon ribbon.
The design for the new medal retained the pendant designed in 1880 by Commodore Schley who was head of the Navy's Equipment and Recruiting Bureau.
This particular Good Conduct Medal was awarded to Michael Haley who an Oiler aboard the USS Indiana during the Battle of Santiago off Cuba on July 3, 1898.
www.spanamwar.com /medalsgoodconduct.htm   (219 words)

  
 Military Awards and Medals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This award ribbon is identical to the Department of Defense Superior Service Medal ribbon, indicative of the fact that the service performed would have been similar to warrant the award of this medal to an individual.
The Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation was instituted in 1967.
Awarded by SECNAV to any unit of the Navy or Marine Corps which has distinguished itself, under combat or noncombat conditions, by either valorous or meritorious achievement which renders the unit outstanding compared to other units performing similar service, but not sufficient to justify the award of the Navy Unit Commendation.
members.cox.net /keawe/military_awards_and_medals.htm   (717 words)

  
 Ribbon Checker
An alphabetical listing of ribbons and medals is in the works, as is a "medals" page.
Ribbons specifically disallowed on the Navy uniform may be found here.
Subsequent awards of either medal are represented by a bronze star on that medal even if it is from the other area of operations.
kepler.pratt.duke.edu /USNRibbons.html   (257 words)

  
 US Navy Press Releases: Requirement for Good Conduct Medal changes to three years
Sailors can now earn a Good Conduct Medal in three years, instead of the four years currently required, because of a change in eligibility approved last week by Secretary of the Navy John Dalton.
The Navy Good Conduct Medal was established by the Secretary of the Navy on April 26, 1869, to recognize the "all around good Navy enlisted person, qualified in all phases of conduct and performance." The award was given based on three-year increments until Nov. 1, 1963, when the requirements were lengthened to four years.
The change will bring the Navy in line with the other military services which currently award Good Conduct Medals for three-year periods.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_pnav/is_199512/ai_637854856   (266 words)

  
 N0MUD'S WEBPAGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Retired life has been good to me. I love to camp, fish, and hunt.
I began my navy career in 1965 in the communications field.
Navy Good Conduct Medal (3 awards), Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation, Navy Expert Rifle Medal, Navy Expert Pistol Shot Medal.
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 McCulley
Awarded the Legion of Merit, Defense Superior Service Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, Navy Commendation medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Navy Good Conduct Medal, Sea Service Ribbon, National Defense Medal, Small Arms Expert Ribbon, and the Battle "E" Ribbon.
After graduation from high school, McCulley enlisted in the U.S. Navy and subsequently served on one diesel-powered and two nuclear-powered submarines.
In October 1990, McCulley retired from NASA and the Navy to join the Lockheed Space Operations Company as the Deputy Director of the Kennedy Space Center Launch Site with responsibility for over 6000 people who are involved in the processing of space shuttles from wheels-stop on the runway through T-0 on the Launch pad.
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 NAVY GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL
your years served in the Navy were well spent.
Meeting the requirements for the Navy Good Conduct
Conduct Medal as a reward for 3 years of good conduct.
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 Navy Good Conduct Medal
Conduct  Medal  was  established  by  the  Secretary  of  the
Navy (SECNAV) on 26 April 1869, to recognize the
the Good Conduct Medal and subsequent awards and to
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 Good Conduct Medal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Navy Good Conduct Medal was established by the Secretary of the Navy on 26 April 1869 to recognize the "all around " good Navy enlisted person, well qualified in all phases of conduct and performance.
Effective 1 February 1971, Commanding Officers were delegated the authority to award the Good Conduct Medal and subsequent awards and subsequent awards and to issue medals and certificates.
This award is given at four year intervals only to enlisted sailors.
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 WWI and WWII Medals with Ribbon Bars - Military Medals
Navy Expert Pistol Shot Medal with Ribbon Bar
WWII Style Navy Good Conduct medal with ribbon bar
WWII Style Marine Corps Good Conduct medal with ribbon bar
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NAVY GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL RIBBON BAR - Criteria: The NGCM is awarded to recognize 4 years of continued, active duty, enlisted service at above average conduct and proficiency.

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