"Outstanding meritorious performance of a difficult and challenging mission carried out under extraordinary circumstances."
Presented by
the Department of the Army[1]
Eligibility
Military Unit
Status
Currently awarded
First awarded
1985
Last awarded
Ongoing
Streamer for the Superior Unit Award
Precedence
Next (higher)
Army, Naval Service, and Coast Guard: Meritorious Unit Commendation
Equivalent
Air and Space Forces: Air and Space Outstanding Unit Award Coast Guard: Meritorious Team Commendation
Next (lower)
Unit Awards of Foreign Governments
The Superior Unit Award is a decoration of the United States Army which is awarded in peacetime to any unit of the Army which displays outstanding meritorious performance of a difficult and challenging mission carried out under extraordinary circumstances.
The Army Superior Unit Award (ASUA) was created in 1985. The award is composed of a green and red ribbon, enclosed within a gold frame.
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comrades during Thanksgiving, he studied maps of Afghanistan. Bergdahl's unit deployed to outpost Mest-Malak in May 2009, where they conducted counterinsurgency...
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