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Title 10
Title 10
DECORATIONS AND AWARDS
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Legion of Merit: award
Medal for Merit: award
Right to wear badges of military societies
Cash awards for disclosures, suggestions, inventions, and scientific achievements
Cyber operations-peculiar awards
Recognition for accomplishments: award of trophies
Gold star lapel button: eligibility and distribution
Precedence of the award of the Purple Heart
Prisoner-of-war medal: issue
Purple Heart: members killed or wounded in action by friendly fire
Purple Heart: members killed or wounded in attacks by foreign terrorist organizations
Consideration of proposals for decorations not previously submitted in timely fashion: procedures for review
Purple Heart: limitation to members of the armed forces
Presentation of decorations: prohibition on entering correctional facilities for presentation to prisoners convicted of serious violent felonies
Bronze Star: limitation on persons eligible to receive
Medal of honor: award to individual interred in Tomb of the Unknowns as representative of casualties of a war
Medal of honor: Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard Medal of Honor Roll
Replacement of military decorations
Honorable service requirement for award of military decorations