[Vhfcn-l] air medals

[Darrell Elmore]

In the Army a bronze oak leaf on an air medal equals an additional award. An Air Medal with four bronze oak leaf clusters represents 5 awards of the Air Medal.  If you have a silver oak leaf it equals five clusters.  For example if you have the AM with a silver OLC and one  bronze OLC you would have have seven awards.  In the Army the some airman amassed a hell of a lot of Air Medals and they went to numbers.  An AM with a number 1 would equate to two AM.  At least this is how I recall the Army system.  Different services had different criteria and different Army units could have different criteria for awarding them.


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Subject: Re: [Vhfcn-l] air medals

Oak leafs on an air medal represents 5 medals. So, if you have a medal with
four oakleafs, you have 20 medals. In 1970 they changed that to a number.





On Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 4:57 PM William Confer via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org>
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> Daniel,
>    Did you get an answer on this? It means you get an Air Medal oak Leaf
> for 25 Combat Hours logged and for every 50 hours of what we called ash and
> trash or non-combat.  Bill Confer Hornet 16.
>
> > On Oct 14, 2019, at 7:43 PM, Dennis Beckler via Vhfcn-l <
> vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> wrote:
> >
> > My Daughter was asking me what the leaves or clusters stood for on my Air
> > Medal. There are four of them. I am guessing it has something to do with
> > flight hours but could use some help as I am having a Senior moment.
> > According to my records I logged 1103 hours as a Crew Chief. Thanks.
> Dennis
> > Beckler
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