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I know there are some enlisted only awards. Awards in which a commissioned officer would qualify for except they have a commission, such as the Good Conduct Medal. I cannot ever remember the opposite, an award for officers. Do any exist? Should there be awards like this?
Just a point of curiosity...
Just a point of curiosity...
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Some Commands seem to think so especially when it comes to awarding the Legion of Merit for Exemplary Service to enlisted personnel or the Bronze Star again to enlisted who performed admirably while deployed to a War zone!
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Think it's great you said that CSM. My deployment medal was changed to a MSM from a Bronze Star because "he is a SSG".
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1SG Michael Dochterman
You can’t get a MSM for deployment. A Bronze Star during deployment can only be downgraded to an ARCOM
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I doubt it is in writing but the upper awards that concern Defense (i.e. Defense Superior Service Medal and Defense Distinguished Service Medal) I cannot re-call enlisted receiving those upper end awards.
I have to agree with 1LT Scott D. in that there should not be limitations. These ridiculous policies about rank awards which no one will put in writing because they know they are wrong! Too Much Poor Leadership yet they wonder why no one wants to work harder.
I have to agree with 1LT Scott D. in that there should not be limitations. These ridiculous policies about rank awards which no one will put in writing because they know they are wrong! Too Much Poor Leadership yet they wonder why no one wants to work harder.
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CW2 Chris Wilson
They're usually awarded for a specified scope of responsibility and there's language that even says something along the lines of "usually grades O6 thru O10" for example, but it is not exclusive to them. I've seen lower grade soldiers receive unusually high awards under unique circumstances, such as where the SECDEF determined it appropriate. E9's at high level assignments have received them but they're usually give to flag officers. I had an O5 get a DSSM for a 1 year tour in an embassy.
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Actually they are in writing usually in full bird and above sop. E4 below letter of com e5 6 nam/aam e7 e9 com o1 to o4 so on see someone with bronze star ask rank and what he got it for usually officer in theater. See a v then it's for combat
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Army Regulation 600–8–22 needs to provide leadership with specific examples of what costitutes proper awarding of medals and include examples. In my time the disparity in what one command vs another will give out a AAM or ARCOM is a significant point of frustration. I got a AAM for saving a soldiers life, I also got a AAM for organizing a unit BBQ in another command. In the first instance the command didn't want to do the work to get me a soldiers medal because I was a SPC at the time. In the second a coin or a NCOER bullet would have been more than sufficient.
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