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Chapter 57

Decorations and Awards

1121Legion of Merit: award 1122Medal for Merit: award 1123Right to wear badges of military societies 1124Cash awards for disclosures, suggestions, inventions, and scientific achievements 1124aCyber operations-peculiar awards 1125Recognition for accomplishments: award of trophies 1126Gold star lapel button: eligibility and distribution 1127Precedence of the award of the Purple Heart 1128Prisoner-of-war medal: issue 1129Purple Heart: members killed or wounded in action by friendly fire 1129aPurple Heart: members killed or wounded in attacks by foreign terrorist organizations 1130Consideration of proposals for decorations not previously submitted in timely fashion: procedures for review 1131Purple Heart: limitation to members of the armed forces 1132Presentation of decorations: prohibition on entering correctional facilities for presentation to prisoners convicted of serious violent felonies 1133Bronze Star: limitation on persons eligible to receive 1134Medal of honor: award to individual interred in Tomb of the Unknowns as representative of casualties of a war 1134aMedal of honor: Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard Medal of Honor Roll 1135Replacement of military decorations 1136Honorable service requirement for award of military decorations