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What are oak leaf clusters for and when do you get to wear one?
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It represents a second award of the same medal. Oak leaf clusters are only used by the Army and Air Force. The Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard use stars.
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How many oak leaf clusters can you wear for ten arcom?
1 Gold one
What do 9 Army Achievement Medals look like?
An award of 9 Army Achievement Medals would be shown by the original medal pinned with a silver oak leaf cluster (for 5 awards) and 4 bronze oak leaf clusters.
How many oak leaf clusters can you wear on an aam?
One would wear a single Silver Oak Leaf Cluster. The Silver Oak Leaf Cluster signifies that the Army Achievement Medal has been awarded 5 subsequent times and the Ribbon itself signifies the first one awarded. For every AAM awarded after this, one would wear a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster (signifying one awarded AAM) until one reaches 11 total awards. At this point, one would wear a second Silver Oak Leaf Cluster.
If you have 4 AAM how many oak leaf clusters do you put on your ribbon?
You will wear 3 bronze oak leaves. You can wear up to 4 bronze. If you are awarded again then 1 silver oak leaf will be worn, and no bronze till the next one.
If you have 2 msm how many oak leaf cluster you get?
One. The first award is the ribbon and subsequent awards are clusters. For example, if you have four MSMs you wear three clusters.
How many oak leaf clusters are worn if you have 8 arcoms?
you will wear the AAM ribbon with 4 bronze oak leaf clusters. The ribbon counts as 1 itself so when you wear 4 bronze clusters on it your wearing 5. then once you get 6 AAM's youll just have one silver since the ribbon counts as one so 5+1=6.
Can you mix bronze and Silver oak leaf clusters in one ribbon?
Yes
What do you wear on a ribbon if you have eight awards of the same medal?
Depending on what the ribbon is for specifically, either one silver and two bronze oak leaf clusters, or one silver and two bronze star devices.
How many oak leaf clusters for 5 Army Achievement Medals?
500 and 55 thousand To correct the above post, 4 bronze oak leaf clusters indicates 5 total awards of a single medal (the initial award +1 OLC for each additional award). Starting with the 6th award, a silver oak leaf cluster is worn instead (silver OLC indicating 5 previous awards). The 7th will add another bronze OLC, and so forth. Caveat, this is for the Army. The Naval services use stars instead of OLCs to indicate previous awards.
How do you wear two army achievement medals?
You would wear one Army Achievement Ribbon with an oak leaf to indicate each subsequent award affixed on the ribbon, or the ribbon portion of the medal. This is correct. To specify, one would wear a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster for each subsequent ribbon awarded. The Silver Oak Leaf cluster would be used to show 5 subsequent awards. For example: One is awarded the Army Achievement Medal 11 separate times. Therefore one would wear The Army Achievement Ribbon with two Silver Oak Leaf Clusters.
If you are wounded 3 times in the army do you get 3 purple hearts?
It depends on if it is three different accounts. Meaning, if you were to be wounded three times at once, only one purple heart would be awarded. If are wounded once, then, at a different time wounded another would be awarded. so, If you receive more than one medal is denoted by a bronze oak leaf cluster, if you have five bronze oak leaf clusters it is replaced by a silver oak leaf cluster, and finally five silver oak leaf clusters are replaced by one of gold.
How many oak leaf clusters denote 4 awards?
typically, for four awards you would need three oak clusters. the ribbon counts as one. However, for the good conduct medal, you would wear a knot for each award. It varies dependant upon the actual award, but for AAM's, Arcoms, etc the ribbon always counts as the first award.
