Folders are available for each battalion or unit considered for an award. Explanations and the history of each recommendation are provided within each folder. Missions are described, soldiers are listed, and the process of approving or disapproving the award by the Department of the Army is outlined within each set of documents.
Vietnam Service Awards
- Conflict: Vietnam War
- Records: 91,923
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- Publication Title:
- Vietnam Service Awards
- Content Source:
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The National Archives
- Record Group:
- 472
- Published on Fold3:
- January 15, 2010
- Last Update:
- December 7, 2011
- Description:
- Recommendations for awarding Presidential Unit Citations (PUC), Valorous Unit Awards (VUA), and the Meritorious Unit Commendations (MUC).
Presidential Unit Citation
- Awarded to combat and combat support units of the Armed Forces of the United States and cobelligerent nations for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy.
- The unit must display such gallantry, determination, and esprit de corps in accomplishing its mission under extremely difficult and hazardous conditions as to set it apart from and above others units participating in the same campaign.
- The award will normally be given for unit heroism for single or successive actions covering a relatively short period of time. Extended periods of combat duty or participation in a large number of operational missions, either ground or air, is not sufficient. Only on rare occasions will a unit larger than a battalion qualify for award of this decoration.
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Valorous Unit Award
- Awarded to combat and combat support units of the Armed Forces of the United States for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy of the U.S. while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force or while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the U.S. is not a belligerent party. It may also be awarded to cobelligerent nations with which the U.S. Forces are operating.
- The VUA requires a lesser degree of gallantry, determination, and esprit de corps than that required for the PUC. Nevertheless, the unit must have performed with marked distinction under difficult and hazardous conditions in accomplishing its mission so as to set it apart from and above other units participating in the same conflict.
- The award will normally be given for unit heroism for single or successive actions covering a relatively short period of time. Extended periods of combat duty or participation in a large number of operational missions, either ground or air, is not sufficient. Only on rare occasions will a unit larger than a battalion qualify for this award.
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Meritorious Unit Commendation
- Awarded to combat service support units of the Armed Forces of the U.S. for exceptionally meritorious conduct in performance of outstanding services for a least six months during the period of military operations against an armed enemy.
- The unit must display such outstanding devotion and superior performance of exceptionally difficult tasks as to set it apart from and above other units with similar missions. Only in rare cases will a unit larger than a brigade or battalion qualify for award of this decoration. In order to recognize superior performance at small unit level, platoons and sections within company size organizations may be recommended separately. It is not necessary that the entire company size organization be recommended.
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