Posted on Aug 26, 2021
What is the proper wearing of the ACM, ICM, and GWOT-EM ribbons?
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I am attempting to rebuild my ribbon stack as well as medals for a shadow box for my kids. I has lost them all in a fire many years ago and had them replaced through national archives request. I am a bit confused by what I have rad on the interwebs as well as even here. deployed to Afghanistan in 2002 and Iraq in 2003. when my medals were replaced, I was given a package that contained the ACM with BSS, the ICM with BSS, as well as both GWOT medals. I originally recall being issued the ACM and both GWOT's, at the time I don't' believe ICM was created yet. and i have some confusion about GWOT-EM and ICM wearing at the same time. If i were to recreate the ribbon stack to regs, what they hell would I actually be authorized to wear if still in, hypothetically? would my stack look like the image below?
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The only thing I could recommend for correction is your Overseas Service Ribbon. If you deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, as long as you were in theater in both countries for the required time, then you would have a Number 2 Device on the Overseas Ribbon. As long as your other devices on the ribbons are correct, then you're good as the order you have them in is correct.
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SGT Mike Tomarchio
MAJ Ronnie Reams , only problem is I was 11H in the 82nd. Sure I've been in more aircraft than I can remember, but I still don't understand why National Archives sentvthem. They are not on my dd214 or dd215...so I it confuses me. NY guess is someone made an oops.
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MAJ Ronnie Reams
I have them because Aviation units never had enough grads of the aerial gunnery school in HI. So I volunteered with IIFFV flight det and got mine. 82d not draft you in to a door gunner's seat? 11 series was a popular source.
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MSG (Join to see) I believe you have to do a 9 month minimum in order to receive the overseas medal. I could be wrong but remember something like that.
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1SG (Join to see) - It got changed to 8 months 15 days. Not sure when that took place, but that is the timeframe now. I know this because I was just shy of that mark to get the #3 put on my OSR for this last deployment
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The Iraq Campaign Medal and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal were made retroactive for those who received the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal or the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and wanted to exchange them for the campaign medals.
Some who have deployed to either country multiple times chose to keep their GWOTEM in lieu of putting another Bronze Service Star on the medal to stack their rack a bit or because that was what they were actually awarded at the time.
Reg says you can't wear both if they were awarded for the same action, so I would just do the ICM myself.
Some who have deployed to either country multiple times chose to keep their GWOTEM in lieu of putting another Bronze Service Star on the medal to stack their rack a bit or because that was what they were actually awarded at the time.
Reg says you can't wear both if they were awarded for the same action, so I would just do the ICM myself.
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Medals of America keeps the Medal charts up to date as well as the precedence chart.
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