Navy Awards
This Navy award, often recommended by a Chief for their Sailors, recognizes sustained superior performance and achievement in both shore and sea duty.
What is the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal?
This official Navy manual outlines the policies and procedures for recommending, approving, and presenting military awards and decorations.
What is SECNAVINST 1650.1J (or the Navy Awards Manual)?
This rare version of the Medal of Honor, awarded primarily between 1919 and 1942 and designed by a famous jewelry company, featured a cross shape instead of the traditional medallion.
What is the Tiffany Cross?
This Navy cook and Chief Petty Officer was the first African American awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
Who was Doris Miller?
Awarded in 2016 for rescuing an American hostage in Afghanistan by shielding him with his own body amid intense enemy fire, this Navy SEAL Chief became the most recent Navy Chief Petty Officer to receive the Medal of Honor.
Who is Edward C. Byers?
Triple Jeopardy Points!!! 200 x 3 = 600 points
Established in 1942 and modeled after European orders of merit, this Navy-eligible decoration is one of the few U.S. military awards that can be granted to foreign officers—and though rarely awarded to enlisted personnel, it has been bestowed upon select Navy Chiefs serving in roles of exceptional joint or international importance.
What is the Legion of Merit?
This action must be completed after an award is approved and presented, ensuring the recipient’s service record accurately reflects the decoration.
What is filing the award in the service record and updating electronic personnel records?
This war, fought between 1861 and 1865, saw the first U.S. Navy personnel awarded the Medal of Honor for their valor.
What is the American Civil War?
Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John Finn received this award for heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor, making him the first service member to receive it during WWII.
What is the Medal of Honor?
Per Navy awards regulations, this type of award device is used to denote a second through fifth award of the same decoration, with a different device used starting at the sixth award.
What is a gold star (for 2nd-5th awards) and a silver star (in lieu of five gold stars) for the 6th award and beyond?
This medal was awarded to Navy personnel who served on rivers and inland waterways in China between 1932 and 1940.
What is the Yangtze Service Medal?
This medal honored sailors who participated in protecting American interests and maintaining stability during a turbulent period of conflict and unrest in China. The Yangtze Service Medal was declared obsolete in 1940 when it was replaced by the China Service Medal.
Maximum number of typewritten lines to meet official formatting requirements for a Navy Commendation or Achievement Medal citation, the text must be in all uppercase, Times New Roman font.
What is 8 lines?
This prestigious Navy decoration, created during World War II, is awarded for meritorious achievement in aerial flight and is often seen on the racks of Chief Aviation Ratings.
What is the Air Medal?
This Hospital Corpsman was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for repeatedly exposing himself to enemy fire to aid wounded Marines during the Vietnam War.
Who is Wayne M. Caron?
This rarely awarded personal decoration is higher in precedence than the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, but lower than the Bronze Star, and requires acts of heroism not involving actual conflict with the enemy.
What is the Navy and Marine Corps Medal?
This award, represented by a ribbon of light blue with 13 white stars has been awarded to only 2 Navy Chiefs in the past 80 years.
What is the Medal of Honor?
According to awards policy, this is the maximum number of unit award citations that can be entered into a member's official military personnel file for the same act, achievement, or period of service.
What is 1?
Prohibition of duplicate recognition: No unit, or part thereof, may be awarded more than 1 unit decoration for the same act or period of service. However, a unit may receive an award and a personal award may be submitted if worthy.
This 19th-century naval engagement marked the first time the U.S. Navy used ironclad warships in combat, signaling a new era in naval warfare.
What is the Battle of Hampton Roads?
The first ironclad naval battle occurred during the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia.
This Navy Chief was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the boiler room on the USS Utah during the attack on Pearl Harbor, becoming one of the most famous Chiefs in Navy history.
Who is Chief Watertender Peter Tomich?
Peter Tomich was awarded the Medal of Honor, but family members could not be located for years. His Medal of Honor was finally presented to family members aboard the USS Enterprise in 2006. According to the USS Utah Memorial website
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Authorized by the Naval Act of 1794, these six frigates were intended to form the foundation of the U.S. Navy. ***Must all be named to answer correctly***
What are the USS United States, USS Constellation, USS Constitution, USS Chesapeake, USS Congress, and USS President?
Authorized in 1919, this Navy Decoration was the first U.S. medal created specifically to recognize acts of combat valor and was awarded retroactively for World War 1 service.
What is the Navy Cross?
This device, authorized for wear on personal awards, indicates a subsequent award of the same decoration.
What is a gold star in lieu of a second or subsequent award?
This is the first campaign medal created by the U.S. Navy, established in 1905. And what battle/war was it made for?
What is the Spanish Campaign Medal? What is the Spanish-American War of 1898?
MCPON Delbert D. Black was the first Navy enlisted man to be awarded this Medal
What is the Distinguished Service Medal?
The Navy Distinguished Service Medal, established in 1919, is awarded to Navy or Marine Corps members for exceptionally meritorious service in a position of great responsibility. It is typically reserved for senior officers, such as admirals and generals, though it is occasionally awarded to very senior enlisted personnel. Originally ranked above the Navy Cross, its precedence was changed in August 1943, placing it below the Navy Cross. Multiple awards are indicated with gold stars.
This U.S. Navy ship, launched in 1959, was the world’s first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, fundamentally changing naval strategic deterrence.
What is USS George Washington (SSBN-598)?
It marked a revolutionary shift in naval warfare and strategic deterrence by combining stealthy nuclear propulsion with the capability to launch ballistic missiles. This allowed the U.S. Navy to maintain a powerful and survivable second-strike nuclear force during the Cold War, significantly enhancing national security.