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COMDTINST M1560.25D Medals and Awards Manual Medals and Awards Manual COMDTINST M1650.25D MAY 2008 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK. Commandant 1900 Half Street, S.W. United States Coast Guard Washington, DC 20593-0001 Staff Symbol: CG-12 Phone: (202) 475-5222 COMDTINST M1650.25D 5 May 2008 COMMANDANT INSTRUCTION M1625.25D Subj: MEDALS AND AWARDS MANUAL 1. PURPOSE. This Manual publishes a revision of the Medals and Awards Manual. This Manual is applicable to all active and reserve Coast Guard members and other Service members assigned to duty within the Coast Guard. 2. ACTION. Area, district, and sector commanders, commanders of maintenance and logistics commands, Commander, Deployable Operations Group, commanding officers of headquarters units, and assistant commandants for directorates, Judge Advocate General, and special staff offices at Headquarters shall ensure that the provisions of this Manual are followed. Internet release is authorized. 3. DIRECTIVES AFFECTED. Coast Guard Medals and Awards Manual, COMDTINST M1650.25C and Coast Guard Rewards and Recognition Handbook, CG Publication 1650.37 are cancelled. 4. MAJOR CHANGES. Major changes in this revision include: clarification of Operational Distinguishing Device policy, award criteria for ribbons and medals established since the previous edition of the Manual, guidance for prior service members, clarification and expansion of administrative procedures and record retention requirements, and new and updated enclosures. 5. ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS/CONSIDERATIONS. Environmental considerations were examined in the development of this Manual and have been determined to be not applicable. 6. FORMS/REPORTS: The forms called for in this Manual are available in USCG Electronic Forms on the Standard Workstation or on the Internet: http://www.uscg.mil/forms/, CG Central at http://cgcentral.uscg.mil/, and Intranet at http://cgweb2.comdt.uscg.mil/CGFORMS/Welcome.htm. D. A. NEPTUN /s/ Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard Director of Personnel Management DISTRIBUTION - SDL No. 149 abcde f gh i j k lmnopqr s t uvwxyz A 22 22222222222222 2 2 B 1599225424124429624424252222122212 C 64322222422111111411111141 D 11421 1 11 111 11 1 1 1 E 262121111111111 1 11 F G 111 H 1 NON-STANDARD DISTRIBUTION: None COMDTINST M1650.25D THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK. 2 COMDTINST M1650.25D CHAPTER 1. GENERAL INFORMATION.................................................................. 1-1 1.A. Purpose .........................................................................................................1-1 1.B. Policy considerations....................................................................................1-1 1.B.1. Authorization for awards and penalties for the unauthorized disposition and wear of awards ......................................................1-1 1.B.2. Awards as recognition....................................................................1-1 1.B.3. Periods of meritorious service and/or acts .....................................1-1 1.B.4. Dual Recognition............................................................................1-2 1.B.5. Benefits for extraordinary heroism ................................................1-2 1.B.6. Posthumous awards........................................................................1-3 1.B.7. Privacy considerations....................................................................1-3 1.B.8. Revocation of awards .....................................................................1-3 1.B.9. Cash, gratuities, gift certificates.....................................................1-3 1.C. Personnel eligible to receive military medals and decorations.....................1-4 1.C.1. Active Duty and Reservists............................................................1-4 1.C.2. Cadets.............................................................................................1-4 1.C.3. Public Health Service and Chaplain Corps ....................................1-4 1.C.4. PCS assignment to another military service...................................1-4 1.C.5. TDY/TAD assignments..................................................................1-4 1.C.6. CG Auxiliarists...............................................................................1-4 1.C.7. CG civilians....................................................................................1-4 1.C.8. Contract employees........................................................................1-4 1.D. Approval authority, delegation, and precedence of personal and unit awards and decorations.................................................................................1-5 1.E. Preparation of the award recommendation...................................................1-5 1.E.1. Initiation .........................................................................................1-5 i COMDTINST M1650.25D 1.E.2. Time restrictions.............................................................................1-5 1.E.3. Preparation of form CG-1650 ........................................................1-5 1.E.4. Citation...........................................................................................1-5 1.E.5. Summary of action (SOA)..............................................................1-6 1.F. Forwarding award recommendations ...........................................................1-7 1.F.1. Recommended by other than commanding officer ........................1-7 1.F.2. Recommendation for the award of the Purple Heart Medal...........1-7 1.G. Processing award recommendations.............................................................1-8 1.G.1. Awards delegated to commanding officers....................................1-8 1.G.2. Reconsideration of disapproved awards.........................................1-8 1.G.3. Flag-level approval authority responsibilities................................1-8 1.G.4. Coast Guard Board of Awards .......................................................1-9 1.H. Issuance, procurement and wearing of decorations and awards.................1-10 1.H.1. Initial and duplicate issuance .......................................................1-10 1.H.2. Award procurement......................................................................1-10 1.H.3. Precedence of decorations and awards.........................................1-11 1.H.4. Wearing of decorations and awards .............................................1-11 1.I. Award administrative responsibilities ........................................................1-11 1.I.1. Awarding authority ......................................................................1-11 1.I.2. Servicing Personnel Office...........................................................1-12 1.I.3. Member ........................................................................................1-12 CHAPTER 2. PERSONAL AWARDS AND THEIR CRITERIA................................. 2-1 2.A. Introduction...................................................................................................2-1 2.A.1. Medal of Honor ..............................................................................2-1 2.A.2. Navy Cross .....................................................................................2-1 ii COMDTINST M1650.25D 2.A.3. Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal .........................2-2 2.A.4. Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) ........................2-2 2.A.5. Silver Star.......................................................................................2-3 2.A.6. Department of Transportation Guardian Medal .............................2-3 2.A.7. Legion of Merit (LOM)..................................................................2-4 2.A.8. Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC).................................................2-4 2.A.9. Coast Guard Medal.........................................................................2-5 2.A.10. Bronze Star Medal..........................................................................2-6 2.A.11. Purple Heart Medal ........................................................................2-6 2.A.12. Meritorious Service Medal (MSM)................................................2-7 2.A.13. Air Medal .......................................................................................2-7 2.A.14. Coast Guard Commendation Medal (CGCM) ...............................2-8 2.A.15. Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal ............................2-9 2.A.16. Coast Guard Achievement Medal (CGAM)...................................2-9 2.A.17. Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal..............................2-10 2.A.18. Commandant’s Letter of Commendation (LOC) .........................2-11 2.A.19. Combat Action Ribbon.................................................................2-11 CHAPTER 3. AUTHORIZED UNIT AWARDS AND THEIR CRITERIA................. 3-1 3.A. General discussion........................................................................................3-1 3.A.1. Eligibility requirements..................................................................3-1 3.A.2. Submission .....................................................................................3-1 3.A.3. Presentation ....................................................................................3-2 3.A.4. Pennant display ..............................................................................3-2 3.B. Unit awards...................................................................................................3-2 3.B.1.
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