Coast Guard Bicentennial Unit Commendation information
Unit award of the US Coast Guard
Award
Coast Guard Bicentennial Unit Commendation
Type
Unit award
Awarded for
"[F]or an extraordinary level of service to the government and citizens of the United States for 200 years and in particular from March 1989 through October 1989."[1]
Presented by
United States Coast Guard
Eligibility
Service with the Coast Guard from March 1989 to October 1989.
Status
No longer awarded
Established
2 January 1990
Precedence
Next (higher)
Air and Space Organizational Excellence Award[2]
Next (lower)
Prisoner of War Medal[2]
The Coast Guard Bicentennial Unit Commendation was a unit award of the United States Coast Guard which was awarded to all active, reserve, auxiliary, and civilian personnel of the Coast Guard for service from March 1989 to October 1989.
The award was issued only to those whose service up to the issuance date was honorable and it could be issued to members of other services who were assigned to the Coast Guard and served in that period.[3][dubious – discuss]
Wearing of the ribbon was stipulated to be placed after the Air and Space Organizational Excellence Award and before the Prisoner of War Medal.[2]
^Yost, Paul A. Jr. "Coast Guard Bicentennial Unit Commendation Citation" (PDF). United States Coast Guard. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
^ abc"Coast Guard Medals and Awards Manual, COMDTINST M1650.25E" (PDF). U.S. Department of Defense. U.S. Coast Guard. August 15, 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 4, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
^"BICENTENNIAL UNIT COMMENDATION". foxfall.com. Archived from the original on July 24, 2001. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
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