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Question: What is the purpose of the D.A. Military Awards Program?

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>> 1.: What is the purpose of the D.A. Military Awards Program?
2.: What is the highest peacetime award for valor?
3.: During peacetime, who is the approving authority for the Soldier's Medal?
4.: What is an Award?
5.: What is a decoration?
6.: What is DA Form 7013?
7.: What are the six groups that individual awards can be categorized into?
8.: What is the highest award given by the Army in time of war?
9.: What is engraved on the reverse side of the Medal of Honor?
10.: What is engraved on the reverse side of every Decoration or Good Conduct Medal other than the Medal of Honor?
11.: How many stars are on the blue silk shield that the Army Medal of Honor is suspended from?
12.: Who is the approving authority for the Medal of Honor?
13.: Who awards the Medal of Honor?
14.: What is the word inscribed on the suspension bar of the Medal of Honor?
15.: Whose profile is on the Medal of Honor?
16.: What is the order of precedence for the wearing of individual awards?
17.: Name the ribbon awarded to members of the US Army for successful completion of the Basic and AIT?
18.: What is the DA Form 2442?
19.: What is the time limit for recommending an award?
20.: How many "V" devices may be worn on a ribbon?
21.: The "V" Device is authorized for wear on what decorations?
22.: How many different weapons are authorized component bars?
23.: For what is the Good Conduct Medal given?
24.: What three words are inscribed on the front of the Good Conduct Medal?
25.: Who is the approving authority for the Good Conduct Medal?
26.: How often can you get the Good Conduct Medal?
27.: Who are the final approving authorities for the AAM, ARCOM, MSM, LM and DSM?
28.: Who can make recommendations for an award?
29.: To whom is the Purple Heart awarded?
30.: What is the second highest award for valor?

31.: What was the first medal awarded in the U.S. Army?
32.: In the order of precedence, what are the U.S. Unit Awards authorized for wear on Army Uniforms?
33.: What was the Purple Heart initially awarded for?
34.: What is a DA Form 4950?
35.: What decoration has George Washington's picture on it?
36.: Who is the approving authority for the Army Achievement Medal?
37.: What is a DA Form 87?
38.: What words are inscribed on the reverse side of the AAM?
39.: What words are inscribed on the reverse side of the ARCOM?
40.: What is a Fourragere?
41.: When can a unit award be worn?
42.: Name the four Special Skills Tabs.
43.: What Army Regulation covers the wear and appearance of the military uniform?
44.: Name three appurtenances.
45.: If the number of authorized oak leaf clusters exceeds four and will not fit on a single ribbon, what will happen?.
46.: What DA Form is used to recommend / request an award?
47.: What Army Regulation governs Awards and Decorations?
48.: When was the Medal of Honor established?
49.: Why is the Purple Heart different than all the other decorations?
50.: What are the three U.S. Army Combat Badges?
51.: Who is eligible to be awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB)?
52.: What are the four specific eligibility requirements for the Combat Action Badge (CAB)?
53.: Can the Combat Action Badge be awarded to members of the other U.S. Armed Forces and foreign Soldiers?
54.: May Soldiers may be awarded the CIB, CMB and CAB for the same qualifying period?
55.: Who is eligible to be awarded the Combat Medical Badge (CMB)?

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