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The Oak Leaf Cluster is not a medal. It is a small pin in the shape of an oak leaf that is issued for the 2nd (and 3rd and 4th) time you receive a medal. If you earned a Purple Heart Medal for being wounded, then the second time you would be issued "an oak leaf to the Purple Heart Medal".
Campaign Medals were issued for service in a region for a specific time. Then if you continued serving and were in another campaign, you would receive a 2nd Oak Leaf to the Campaign Medal. Thus the Normandy landing was one campaign. Then if you fought into Germany there was one for that.
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∙ 14y agoIn the US Military, there is NO Oak Leaf Medal; Oak leaves are affixed to medals signifying multiple awards of the same medal.
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∙ 14y agoOn British Campaign Medals it indicates that the person to whom it was awarded was mentioned in Dispatches for an action in the campaign.
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Difference between silver oak leaf and bronze oak leaf on a army medal?
A bronze oak leaf indicates a single additional award of the same medal. A silver oak leaf indicates five awards of the same medal.
What is the first oak leaf cluster to the silver star?
Oak leaf clusters indicate subsequent awards of that same medal. The 1st OLC to a Silver Star indicates the second time that medal has been awarded.
What does an oak leaf Custer symbolize?
Typically an Oak Leaf Cluster represents an additional award of the medal. Others use a star to indicate a second award.
What does the Oak leaf cluster on good conduct medal mean?
It indicates a second award.
What is the oak leaf cluster with a bronze star?
The Bronze Star Medal is awarded for valor in battle or for achievement in a battlefield theater of operation. In US Military, oak leaf clusters are awarded for additional awards of the same medal. So two (2) oak leaf clusters indicates a person has received three (3) total awards of the same medal.
Difference between silver oak leaf and bronze oak leaf on a army medal?
A bronze oak leaf indicates a single additional award of the same medal. A silver oak leaf indicates five awards of the same medal.
What is an Air Medal with 30LCs?
That is an award that was issued issued four times...Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters. That means when the person was first awarded the Air Medal, he/she received the basic medal, then any additional awards was denoted with an oak leaf cluster that is wornon top the basic ribbon. If he/she get a silver oak leaf cluster, that means six awards of that medal.
What is Bronze star medal olc?
The Bronze Star medal was established in 1944. An oak leaf cluster on US medals indicates additional award of the same medal. Thus one (1) oak leaf cluster on a medal indicates the wearer has been awarded the same medal twice.
How many oak leaf clusters do you wear for 10 awards?
The oak leaf cluster is positioned in the center of the Ribbon and in the center of the Ribbon which hangs to a Medal.
What is the first oak leaf cluster to the silver star?
Oak leaf clusters indicate subsequent awards of that same medal. The 1st OLC to a Silver Star indicates the second time that medal has been awarded.
What is the Significance of bronze star with oak leaf cluster?
The Bronze Star Medal is awarded for valor in battle or for achievement in a battlefield theater of operation. In US Military, oak leaf clusters are awarded for additional awards of the same medal. So two (2) oak leaf clusters indicates a person has received three (3) total awards of the same medal.
How do you wear six good conduct ribbons?
In US military, first award of a decoration is the ribbon (and medal) itself. Additional awards are reflected by the addition of an oak leaf cluster on the ribbon. When the sixth award of the medal occurs, the four oak leaf clusters on the ribbon are replaced with a silver oak leaf cluster, denoting 5 additional awards of the medal.
What does an oak leaf Custer symbolize?
Typically an Oak Leaf Cluster represents an additional award of the medal. Others use a star to indicate a second award.
What does one oak leaf cluster represent?
a second award of the same medal....................
What does the Oak leaf cluster on good conduct medal mean?
It indicates a second award.
What is the oak leaf cluster with a bronze star?
The Bronze Star Medal is awarded for valor in battle or for achievement in a battlefield theater of operation. In US Military, oak leaf clusters are awarded for additional awards of the same medal. So two (2) oak leaf clusters indicates a person has received three (3) total awards of the same medal.
What do the stars represent on the purple heart medal?
The Oak Leaf Device was a small leaf that was attached to the ribbon of a medal to denote the 2nd issue of that medal. So if a soldier had a Campaign Medal with 2 Oak Leaves meant that the soldier had been awarded the medal three times.When the soldier earned his 5th PHM, he would use the Bronze Star Device in place of the multiple Oak Leaves. (I believe that is the correct number)
