Marine Corps Decorations, Medals, Unit Awards, Ribbons and new Devices and Attachments

All of this information is from the new book: Marine Awards and Insignia available at moapress.com/.Covers 2022 Marine Awards, Decorations, Unit Awards, Service Awards, Medals, Miniature Medals, Ribbon Bars, Ribbon Only Awards, Devices and Attachments.For replacement medals, ribbons, insignia, shadow boxes and more, shop our on line catalog: www.medalsofamerica.com/onlin... To purchase official United States medals, ribbons, badges and insignia plus shadow boxes and more, go to www.medalsofamerica.com/
Special Thanks To: Medals of America for providing the medals in this video. Examples of marine Only awards are shown as well as example awards display cases. All information came from the new book: Marine Awards and Insignia , an Illustrated History available at www.moapress.com.
Medals of America Press: All this information is available in our books at moapress.com/
Special Thanks To: Medals of America for providing the medals in this video.
Medals of America: To purchase replacement medals, ribbons, shadow boxes and more, visit www.medalsofamerica.com/

[@babajesusiq]

Win with our family serving

[@bigred6815]

Excellent presentation. Do you have a similar video for Army and Air Force?

[@samwister6373]

My wife just ordered the last book in stock

[@veteransmedalsworkshop-moa4376]

Thank you for the heads up..will take care of that!

[@patrickhansen6705]

You need a microphone that better picks up your voice can hardly hear you on the phone

[@edwardscanlon5280]

I am a retired veteran Cpl E4 and served on okinawa in 1959. I was over there for 16 months and is there any awards for that service?

[@Edb4paxUSMC]

Any service member current, former, retired, etc., can inquire to Marine Corps documents on line to read up on service decorations, badges, medals, etc. (salad dressing). You will want to have your DD-214 available to determine your eligibility for post-service benefits. If you cannot locate your DD-214, a copy can be requested from the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO. If you retired a CPL E4, you have either a medical discharge (which may come with some benefits) or, you have suffered some let's say, other-than-honorable service. In any case, The DD-214 is your go-to document that establishes not only awards and decorations but characterization of service, etc. Good-luck.

[@davinadavina1331]

actually you qualify for the sea service deployment ribbon

[@djzrobzombie2813]

Purple heart

[@rhett1029]

Why are Purple Hearts so significantly more expensive than other medals? Also I enjoy the videos

[@TheHolyFurryEmpire]

Well because they are like one of the first war medals ever made

[@TheHolyFurryEmpire]

And also sometimes people think that it's real gold

[@veteransmedalsworkshop-moa4376]

They are really much more expensive to make

[@rhett1029]

@@TheHolyFurryEmpire I don’t know it just seems like a lot a family’s veteran spills blood or dies for their country and unless you wait a year for the government to replace it you have to pay 50 dollars for something they should never worry about again

[@TheHolyFurryEmpire]

@@rhett1029 true

[@staciefairfield5415]

Hey Frank are there any other medallions of Honor that go back farther in the 1700s as I have one that is an ounce in size but not even edged like you know they made it by hand it's kind of like a hand chiseled stars and eagle on it you can barely read what it says on one side the dates missing but you can make out I believe it says honor truth the next words hard to make out but there's no joints on the outer edge it doesn't look like anything used to be on the outer edge it kind of looks like a 16th century early American Roman coin made out of copper with American eagle cartoonish on the back almost because it's so handmade like chiseled and the stars as well on the front where would I look this up

[@veteransmedalsworkshop-moa4376]

Wow, that sounds really interesting. Can you send me a picture at [e-mail]? I will try to help IId...may be very valuable.

[@tomterific390]

Regarding ribbon devices signifying additional awards -- what's the difference between stars and oak leaf clusters? Are the latter for Army and the former for Navy and Marines??

[@Edb4paxUSMC]

Each branch can have their separate devices. Here's a good place to start: media.defense.gov/2023/Apr/24/2003206071/-1/-1/1/RIBBONS%20AND%20DEVICES.PDF