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Originally Posted by vaughn
I’ve yet to meet a WW ll veteran that was issued the medals and ribbons he was authorized to wear at discharge. All my ships crewmen bought their authorized ribbons in Honolulu after sailing to Pearl Harbor for ship repairs. These ribbons and Red amphibious Patch worn on our Whites, showed we weren't Boots, we were salty Gator sailors!
There are many WW ll veterans that still haven’t received medals and ribbons and never will until they or kin request them.
I'm sure that personal medals such as Purple Hearts, Bronze Stars, and etc were given during a ceremony, I'm referring to theatre of operations medals, i.e., WW ll, American Theatre, Asiatic Pacific, Navy Unit Citation and etc.
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Hamp, The Navy/MC issues medals to individuals but unit awards are not issued. You have them annotated in your record book and DD-214 but since the review process is so long most people have left a unit/ship by the time the award is given.
Unit award notifications are published quarterly on the unclassified message board, and the awards clerk tries to keep up with where everyone was and who rates what. It preytty much comes down to research on the individuals part or seperations going through your ship/units and seeing if they rated anything while you were there.