[Vhfcn-l] air medals

Steven Lewis sfclewis at verizon.net
Mon Oct 14 22:55:39 EDT 2019


As you were bronze oak leaf is one silver oak leaf is five

On 14-Oct-19 20:13, Patrick Pavey via Vhfcn-l wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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>>> 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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