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Sailors with the USS Oscar Austin were awarded Combat Action Ribbons for providing air and missile defense during deployments ...
The Carney, which returned home earlier this week, was the only ship the Navy publicly acknowledged had been awarded the Combat Action Ribbon for the Red Sea operations. But the award was also ...
Known colloquially as the CAR, the Combat Action Ribbon stirred controversy in 2015 when a service member was named the 2014 Military Times’ Marine of the Year without having earned a CAR ...
The destroyer USS Oscar Austin returned to its homeport in Spain this week after a six-month patrol in the eastern ...
US Navy warships and Coast Guard teams support maritime border security and drug interdiction efforts, reflecting a broader homeland defense strategy amid continued deployments to the southern border ...
Sample case: Father John Duffy, “for singularly meritorious action” when wounded. Soldier’s Medal ... 345; Navy, 377; Marines, 34. Sample case: Ensign Harry Bonaparte Gibbs. As a combat ...
A senior enlisted Marine was busted down to sergeant last month after he wore military decorations -- including the Purple Heart and Combat Action Ribbon -- that he was not authorized to wear ...
NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) returned to Naval ...
The Combat Action Ribbon, or CAR, is awarded to sailors and Marines who actively participated in ground or surface action, and the Navy has rarely given it to sailors since the 1991 Gulf War.
Nor does his record indicate that he received the Navy’s Combat Action Ribbon, which requires that a sailor "must have rendered satisfactory performance under enemy fire while actively ...
Members of the Coast Guard are eligible for the Navy Combat Action Ribbon (CAR), but only for service during a time when the Coast Guard was under the command of the Navy. The Coast Guard CAR ...