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Coast Guard Achievement Medal

In 1967, The Coast Guard created its branch specific version of the Achievement Medal, which is one of the medals of America that every service branch offers. These US military medals are awarded for outstanding achievement or meritorious service that would not warrant the receipt of the Commendation Medal. These military ribbons and medals were created specifically to commend the performance of junior officers and enlisted personnel, who are not generally eligible to receive Commendation Medals or Meritorious Service Medals, and are awarded by the local commander. The Valor device may be awarded in conjunction with these military medals if the decoration is earned in a combat situation by Coast Guard personnel.

These Coast Guard Medals are worn below the Joint Services Achievement Medal and any of the individual service’s Commendation Medals, and above the Combat Action Ribbon in the general order of precedence which has been established for the proper display of all military medals and ribbons. Additional awards of these military medals are denoted by silver and gold Award Stars.

The Coast Guard Achievement Medal is generally available as full size military medals and mini medals, military ribbons and lapel pins. Today’s commercial suppliers make them available as traditional slide-on, full size military medals or mini-medals, and 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 military ribbons to provide them with the smartest looking military award displays possible.