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  4. TITLE 10 - ARMED FORCES
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  8. PART II—PERSONNEL (§§ 501 –...
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  10. CHAPTER 57—DECORATIONS AND AWARDS (§§ 1121 – 1135)


CHAPTER 57—DECORATIONS AND AWARDS (§§ 1121 – 1135)


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