It's ribbon rack time in the Villanelle Villa. Queue frustration and confusion. Husband has a question regarding the Overseas Service Ribbon and I suggested you all might be able to help. The instruction is confusing (surprise!).
The language from the Navy Awards instruction is,
"(1) Active Duty Personnel: 12 months of consecutive or accumulated duty at an overseas shore based duty station Initial and Subsequent Awards. Qualifying service performed between 15 August 1974 and 1 January 1979 will be credited only toward the initial award of the ribbon. Subsequent to 1 January 1979, one award is earned for each qualifying period." [Bolding mine.]
So if assigned to an OCONUS base for 27 months, and then another OCONUS base (immediately afterwards, if it matters) for 34 months, how many times does he qualify? IOW, what is a qualifying period--every 12 month period (which would be 5, I guess, assuming the totals and partial periods across different sets of orders count ), or each assignment that is 12 months or more (so 2)?
Votes among his peers are split. Thoughts?
The language from the Navy Awards instruction is,
"(1) Active Duty Personnel: 12 months of consecutive or accumulated duty at an overseas shore based duty station Initial and Subsequent Awards. Qualifying service performed between 15 August 1974 and 1 January 1979 will be credited only toward the initial award of the ribbon. Subsequent to 1 January 1979, one award is earned for each qualifying period." [Bolding mine.]
So if assigned to an OCONUS base for 27 months, and then another OCONUS base (immediately afterwards, if it matters) for 34 months, how many times does he qualify? IOW, what is a qualifying period--every 12 month period (which would be 5, I guess, assuming the totals and partial periods across different sets of orders count ), or each assignment that is 12 months or more (so 2)?
Votes among his peers are split. Thoughts?
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