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Coast Guard Restricted Duty Ribbon
The Coast Guard created their Restricted Duty Ribbon in March of 1984. These US military medals recognize personnel who have completed an unaccompanied duty tour. When service persons are assigned to a duty location where family members cannot join them, the duty status is known as unaccompanied. These medals of America honor standard, unaccompanied duty tours which are normally one to two years in length and occur in remote locations such as Greenland or the Arctic. The Restricted Duty Ribbon is awarded at the conclusion of the duty tour to honor this difficult service. These Coast Guard ribbons have no corresponding military medals.The Coast Guard is the only one of the five branches of service to offer these decorations for unaccompanied duty tours. Additional awards of the Restricted Duty Ribbon are denoted by bronze or silver Service Stars. These military ribbons are worn below the Coast Guard Sea Service Ribbon and above the Coast Guard Basic Training Honor Graduate Ribbon in the general order of precedence for all military awards. The Restricted Duty Ribbon is available as a lapel pin, and as a traditional slide on military ribbons. Nowadays however, more and more military service personnel are realizing the value to their career goals of always having their uniform decorations looking their best, and have turned to the slimmer and trimmer thin military medals and mini medals and the ultra thin ribbon racks to provide them with the smartest looking military award displays available anywhere today.
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