Where can I find a database or website for Combat Action Ribbon recipients?

SFC Hasbun is correct. There was a database hosted at manpower.usmc.mil. You could not going on a fishing expedition to search recipients. You typed in the last name, last 4 of the social, and the DOB, if I remember correctly. It spat out a chart with your info including the dates of action which warranted the CAR.

Kosovo, maybe?

The CAR (Combat Action Ribbon) isn't an Army award. It's the USMC equivelent to the CIB and also issued by the Navy and USCG.

SSG Bill McCoy the CAR is not equivalent to the CIB anyone who is involved in ground or surface Combat can be awarded one it is more equivalent to the CAB

SPC James Neidig - I got mine in with the Marine Corps and it was/is my understanding that Marines had to have been in combat; receiving and returning fire. Sailors at sea got it only if their vessels came under fire and returned fire as they literally share the hazards of that type of combat whether they were in an engineroom or gun turret; as do Coasties. When I went Army in '71 (long before the CAB), the Army rated and rates the CAR the same as the CIB. See para II-E, below.
REVISED Jan 2013: THIS CHANGE ALLOWS AWARD OF THE CAR TO MARINES AND SAILORS WHO TAKE DIRECT ACTION TO DISABLE, RENDER SAFE, OR DESTROY AN ACTIVE ENEMY EMPLACED IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE (IED), MINE, OR SCATTERABLE MUNITION.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
(1) AWARDED TO MEMBERS OF THE NAVY, MARINE CORPS, AND COAST GUARD (WHEN THE COAST GUARD, OR UNITS THEREOF, OPERATE UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE NAVY) IN THE GRADE OF CAPTAIN/COLONEL (O-6) AND BELOW, WHO HAVE ACTIVELY PARTICIPATED IN GROUND OR SURFACE COMBAT.
(2) THE PRINCIPAL ELIGIBILITY CRITERION IS THAT ON THE DATE/S OF ACTION THE INDIVIDUAL MUST HAVE RENDERED SATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE UNDER ENEMY FIRE WHILE ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN A GROUND OR SURFACE ENGAGEMENT. THE FOLLOWING AMPLIFYING GUIDANCE IS PROVIDED:
(A) AS APPLIED TO IEDS, MINES, AND SCATTERABLE MUNITION, WITH OR WITHOUT THE IMMEDIATE PRESENCE OF ENEMY FORCES, THE FOLLOWING CONSTITUTE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN A GROUND OR SURFACE ENGAGEMENT:
(I) DIRECT EXPOSURE TO THE DETONATION OF AN IED, MINE, OR SCATTERABLE MUNITION USED BY AN ENEMY.
(II) DIRECT ACTION TAKEN TO DISABLE, RENDER SAFE, OR DESTROY AN ACTIVE ENEMY-EMPLACED IED, MINE, OR SCATTERABLE MUNITION WHILE IN THE IMMEDIATE PROXIMITY OF THE WEAPON SUCH THAT THE INDIVIDUAL IS AT INCREASED RISK FROM THE ANTICIPATED EFFECTS OF THE WEAPON IF DETONATED. AN ACTIVE IED, MINE, OR SCATTERABLE MUNITION IS DEFINED AS ONE HAVING BOTH A MAIN EXPLOSIVE CHARGE AND A FUNCTIONAL FUSING/TRIGGERING MECHANISM. CACHES OF ENEMY IEDS, MINES, OR SCATTERABLE MUNITION THAT HAVE NOT BEEN EMPLACED BY THE ENEMY FOR DETONATION DO NOT SATISFY THIS CRITERION. ACTIONS TAKEN SOLELY TO MARK A SUSPECTED MINE OR IED DO NOT SATISFY THIS CRITERION, NOR DOES EMPLOYING REMOTE MINE CLEARING SYSTEMS OR DIRECT FIRE WEAPONS TO NEUTRALIZE OR DESTROY THE MINE OR IED FROM OUTSIDE THE ANTICIPATED BLAST AREA OF THE WEAPON.
(B) ELIGIBILITY UNDER SUBPARA (A) ABOVE IS RETROACTIVE TO 7 OCTOBER 2001.
(C) BEING AWARDED THE PURPLE HEART DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE A SERVICE MEMBER ELIGIBLE FOR THE CAR, NOR DOES MERELY SERVING IN A COMBAT AREA OR BEING EXPOSED TO ENEMY FIRE OR THREAT OF ENEMY FIRE.
(D) PERSONNEL PARTICIPATING IN CLANDESTINE OR SPECIAL OPERATIONS, WHO BY THE NATURE OF THEIR MISSION ARE RESTRICTED IN THEIR ABILITY TO RETURN FIRE, AND WHO ARE OPERATING IN CONDITIONS IN WHICH THE RISK OF ENCOUNTERING ENEMY FIRE WAS GREAT, MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE CAR.
*** (E) PERSONNEL WHO ARE EXPOSED TO INDIRECT FIRE ARE NOT NORMALLY ELIGIBLE FOR THE CAR UNLESS THEY ACTIVELY ENGAGE THE ENEMY IN OFFENSIVE COUNTER-FIRE ACTIONS.
(F) THE CAR WILL NOT BE AWARDED IN CONNECTION WITH AERIAL FLIGHT. THE STRIKE/FLIGHT AIR MEDAL PROVIDES RECOGNITION FOR AERIAL COMBAT EXPOSURE. HOWEVER, A PILOT OR CREWMEMBER FORCED TO ESCAPE OR EVADE, AFTER BEING FORCED DOWN, MAY BE ELIGIBLE IF THE CAR ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA ARE OTHERWISE MET.

SSG Bill McCoy I also did the Big Switch from the MARINES to the ARMY I was Awarded an Air Medal for Grenada in 83 , Crew Chief on a Huey hauling Recon Marines to the island, my son also served in both 0311 in the CORPS and now serving with 75th RANGERS at Hunter in Georgia