10 U.S.C. § 8744 : US Code - Section 8744: Medal of honor; Air Force cross; distinguished-service medal: limitations on award

Search 10 U.S.C. § 8744 : US Code - Section 8744: Medal of honor; Air Force cross; distinguished-service medal: limitations on award

(a) No more than one medal of honor, Air Force cross, or
distinguished-service medal may be awarded to a person. However,
for each succeeding act that would otherwise justify the award of
such a medal or cross, the President may award a suitable bar or
other device to be worn as he directs.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (d), no medal of honor, Air
Force cross, distinguished-service medal, or device in place
thereof, may be awarded to a person unless -
(1) the award is made within three years after the date of the
act justifying the award;
(2) a statement setting forth the distinguished service and
recommending official recognition of it was made within two years
after the distinguished service; and
(3) it appears from records of the Department of the Air Force
that the person is entitled to the award.
(c) No medal of honor, Air Force cross, distinguished-service
medal, or device in place thereof, may be awarded or presented to a
person whose service after he distinguished himself has not been
honorable.
(d) If the Secretary of the Air Force determines that -
(1) a statement setting forth the distinguished service and
recommending official recognition of it was made and supported by
sufficient evidence within two years after the distinguished
service; and
(2) no award was made, because the statement was lost or
through inadvertence the recommendation was not acted on;
a medal of honor, Air Force cross, distinguished-service medal, or
device in place thereof, as the case may be, may be awarded to the
person concerned within two years after the date of that
determination.