Desert storm to GWOT Ribbon bar

[Silvio]

Hi all,

 

I found a nice ribbon bar from an NCO career service member

Most is army but there is a Navy Marksmanship and an Air medal Ribbon. Is this combination possible.

 

1.     Army commendation medal with oak leaf.

2.     Air medal.

3.     Joint service commendation medal with oak leaf.

4.     Navy Marksmanship Rifle with E device (reverse).

5.     Achievement medal with 2 oak leaf.

6     .Good conduct army with bronze clasp 3 knots.

7.     NDSM 2nd award.

8.    SWASM 3 campaigns

9.    ACM.

10.  GWOT.

11.   Army NCO Professional Development Ribbon 2.

12.   the Army Service Ribbon.

13.   Overseas Service Ribbon 2.

14.   Meritorious Service MedaL with oak leaf( reverse)

15.   Kuwait Liberation Medal.(Saudi Arabia)

16.   Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)

 

Thank you

 

 

 

 

[decwriter]

The order of precedence is goofed up on this ribbon bar, so may be put together.

[Silvio]

I dont think it is a complete put together.

Maybe somebody removed these 3 from the bar en put them wrong back.

Maybe coincidence but these 3 ribbons are moore loose then the other ones wich are attached very tight.

This could explain why the devices are up side down?

If you put the Meritorious Service MedaL with oak leaf( reverse)at the first place.

The Navy Marksmanship Rifle with E device (reverse)on the last row before the foreign awards.

And the Army commendation medal with oak leaf on the second row where the marksmanship was then the precedence should be allright?

I dont know how a army man recieved the air medal and Navy marksman. But he has the joint Service Medal. So maybe awarded in that time frame. 

 

Thank you

[Allan H.]

Silvio,

 

If you removed the Navy Marksmanship ribbon and moved the ARCOM to that position, then moved the MSM ribbon to the top, you would be correct. It would be odd for an army guy to have earned the Navy Marksmanship medal, but I don't think it would be totally unheard of. 

 

I think this is a real rack that someone has replaced a couple of ribbon gaps incorrectly.

 

Allan

[Rakkasan187]

The individual may have been prior service in the Navy, did not do any overseas deployments with the Navy, thus no additional Navy ribbons and he remained in the states. Re-enlisted in the Army and served overseas during the first Gulf War and again in the second war, perhaps with an aviation unit as a crewmember of a helicopter, thus earning the Air Medal. 

 

Just speculation though..

 

Leigh 

[Silvio]

Thank you.

 

Will put them in the correct precedence. 

[atb]

Members of all of the US armed forces can receive the Air Medal. It is not a service specific award.