Volume 5 Awards and decorations program 817
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Service awards, unit awards, and achievement awards. | What are the three types of awards members can earn? |
| Participation in specific or significant military operations, honorable active military service during periods of war or national emergency, and specific types of service by personnel serving on active duty or as a memeber of Reserve forces. | What are the three important purposes of service awards? |
| No service award will be presented or awarded to any person whose entire service for the period covered by the award was nto honorable, or to a person whose service for the period covered by the award was terminated under other than honorable condidions. | What makes a person ineligible for a service award? |
| To recognize acts or services that place the unit's performance signigicantly above that of other units of similar composition and mission responsibility | What is the purpose or unit awards? |
| Award to numbered units such as air forces, air divisions, wings, groups, and squadrons. Organizations must have performed meritorious service or outstanding achievements that clearly set the unit above and apart from similar units. | What are the requirements for award of an Air Force Outstanding Unit (AFOUA)? |
| Air Force Longevity Service Award, Air Force Overseas Ribbon, Air Force Training Ribbon, NCO PME Graduate Ribbon | What achievement awards are available? |
| special trophies or awards. | What award is given in recognition of an act of bravery, an outstanding achievement, or period of meritorious service? |
| Duty performance, impact of the accomplishment, the level or responsibility and authority. | What are the determining factors when an individual is being considered for a decoration? |
| To preserve the integrity of decorations . | Why must recommendations for decorations be restricted to the recognition of meritorious service, outstanding achievement, or acts of heroism that clearly place indiviiduals above their peers? |
| The decoration must clearly state that the quality of one or more acts was characterized by courage, gallantry, or intrepidity.In the case of voluntary risk of life, the facts must clearly show that the individual would not have been censured had he or she not voluntarily accomplished the action. | What constitutes a decoration sumission based on heroism? |
| To recongnize a single specific act or achievement that is separate and distinct from regularly assigned duties. | What is the intention of an outstanding achievement decoration? |
| Exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service to the United States. | What are the criteria for nomination for Legion of Merit? |
| Any person, other than the person being recommended, having first hand knowledge of the act, achievement, or srvice believed to warrant awarding a decoration might recommend an award. | Who may initiate a recommendation for a decoration? |
| The commander or vice-commander at each headquarters designated to review recommendations must personally review and sign the forwarding endorsement for each recommendation. | Who must review and personally endorse each decoration recommendation? |
| Forward requests for reconsideration of disapproved or downgraded recommendations through the same offical channels as the original recommendation. The justification for reconsideration must be in memorandum format not to exceed one page. There must be a copy of the original recommendation with all endorsements and new citation. Submit requests into official channels within 1 year form the date of awarding authority's decision. A one-time reconsidration by the award authority is final. | How do you process requests for reconsideration? |
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