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Coast Guard Sea Services Ribbon
The Coast Guard Sea Service Ribbon was created in 1984. These US military medals are awarded to honor Coast Guard personnel who complete more than 12 consecutive months of sea duty on a Coast Guard cutter, in a Fleet Training Group, or aboard certain other Coast Guard craft under official Coast Guard orders. These military ribbons are sometimes awarded for service aboard a non-Coast Guard vessel that is under Coast Guard Control. Unlike most medals of America these ribbons have no corresponding military medals.When additional awards of this military ribbon are presented for a further three years of sea service, they are displayed as Service Stars on the previously awarded military ribbon. These military ribbons are worn after the Coast Guard Special Operations Medal and before the Coast Guard Restricted Duty Ribbon in the order of precedence for all military ribbons and medals. Like most Coast Guard awards, these military ribbons are available as traditional slide-on ribbons, lapel pins and a unit banner. 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 ultra thin ribbon racks to provide them with the smartest looking military award displays possible.
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