US Code - Chapter 57: Decorations and awards

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