[Vhfcn-l] air medals

Tue Oct 15 12:31:10 EDT 2019

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>Whatever it was, made no difference in how many 
>cups of free coffee you could get! 65-66 tour I 
>got 12 AM's. I am too lazy to get up off the 
>couch to go look in my dresser and look at my 
>rows of ribbons.  My 71 tour when it was just 
>and only test flights between TSN and VungTao 
>and back I got not AM awards and in my records 
>in that same dresser it says I got a total of 85 
>hours for the whole tour.  Never got any extra 
>coffee!  Never made any difference to me. Being 
>able to eat 3 C's a day was far more important 
>than trying to figure out what slinging stuff around was worth in AM's.

Da Foot


>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.Â  If you have a silver 
>oak leaf it equals five clusters.Â  For example 
>if you have the AM with a silver OLC and 
>oneÂ  bronze OLC you would have have seven 
>awards.Â  In the Army the some airman amassed a 
>hell of a lot of Air Medals and they went to 
>numbers.Â  An AM with a number 1 would equate to 
>two AM.Â  At least this is how I recall the Army 
>system.Â  Different services had different 
>criteria and different Army units could have 
>different criteria for awarding them.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Patrick Pavey via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org>
>To: MoeElmore <MoeElmore at aol.com>
>Sent: Mon, Oct 14, 2019 6:15 pm
>Subject: Re: [Vhfcn-l] air medals
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>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>
>wrote:
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> > Daniel,
> >Â  Â  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.Â  Bill Confer Hornet 16.
> >
> > > On Oct 14, 2019, at 7:43 PM, Dennis Beckler via Vhfcn-l <
> > vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> wrote:
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> > > 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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