Posted on May 13, 2019
Who would be my first point of contact to be awarded a commendation I earned in 1970?
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At the time of the event I was told I was going to be put up for the Navy Meritorious Service Medal. The following weekend the senior officer who told me that was killed in a car accident.
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MAJ Carole Borkey unless you have contact with someone in the recommending chain that saw an in progress award recommendation, you may be out of luck.
I am a little confused by your post. Were you awarded an ARCOM for this event/award period? Is it on your 214 or in your oMPF? If it is, you may request it from NPRC. The issuing HQ retains permanent orders which then revert to successive parent commands as units deactivate. https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records
There is a statutory period that is well expired if it hadn't been processed and awarded. Your source on this is AR 600-8-22. If it was processed and orders cut, and you just did t get it, then it should be at NPRC.
I am a little confused by your post. Were you awarded an ARCOM for this event/award period? Is it on your 214 or in your oMPF? If it is, you may request it from NPRC. The issuing HQ retains permanent orders which then revert to successive parent commands as units deactivate. https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records
There is a statutory period that is well expired if it hadn't been processed and awarded. Your source on this is AR 600-8-22. If it was processed and orders cut, and you just did t get it, then it should be at NPRC.
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MAJ Carole Borkey
None of the above. I believe the paperwork was started, however fell thru the cracks with LT Johnson's death.
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LTC Jason Mackay
MAJ Carole Borkey to recap as I am sometimes the slowest zebra in the herd, you were lead to believe LT Johnson was going to initiate a decoration recommendation for a MSM in 1970, then the recommender died the following week. You do not have a copy of the recommendation or other initiating documents for said award. You were not awarded an MSM or lesser decoration for the same award period/event. You do not know if anyone else in the chain did anything about this recommendation for award.
Carole, unless you have a copy of the initiated (but not approved/disapproved by the approval authority) award recommendation, there isn’t anything you can do. The statutory period is over for this in accordance with 10USC section 1130. Someone from your unit would have had to recommend you for a decoration at the time. There may be a loop hole for awards in process. Department of the Navy would process it at their level. Just can't imagine a folder being left open on the XOs desk for 48 years.
My only other thought here is perhaps someone else recommended you for or LT Johnson's recommendation was downgraded to, a lesser decoration. You've just never seen it. Especially if you departed shortly there after. That would be at NPRC.
Carole, unless you have a copy of the initiated (but not approved/disapproved by the approval authority) award recommendation, there isn’t anything you can do. The statutory period is over for this in accordance with 10USC section 1130. Someone from your unit would have had to recommend you for a decoration at the time. There may be a loop hole for awards in process. Department of the Navy would process it at their level. Just can't imagine a folder being left open on the XOs desk for 48 years.
My only other thought here is perhaps someone else recommended you for or LT Johnson's recommendation was downgraded to, a lesser decoration. You've just never seen it. Especially if you departed shortly there after. That would be at NPRC.
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