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Why is this at Bronze Star Medal while Purple Heart is not at Purple Heart Medal? Rmhermen 21:08, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)
Because there is a bronze star device that can also be awarded in the US Armed forces. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.162.128.54 ( talk) 14:42, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
The Bronze Star Medal is the official name of the award (a decoration with or w/o the "V" device). Its referred to sometimes as a "Bronze Star" and sometimes bronze 3/16" service stars are mistaken to be Bronze Star Medals ("Bronze Stars"). The Navy and Marine Corps (manual), use Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal, and Purple Heart Medal for these awards and uses a "combat distinguishing device" (Combat "V") instead of "V" Device. The Combat "V" may be authorized for wear for valor or for being exposed to personal hazard involving direct participation in combat operations. The Army authorizes the "V" Device (for valor only) to be worn. Both the Army "V" Device and the Navy-Marine Combat "V" are "V" devices. The Purple Heart (Purple Heart medal) and Purple Heart Medal are the same military awards. YahwehSaves.
I have heard that there are two types of bronze star medals. One more prestigious with fewer recipients, and the other less prestigious with more recipients that the Army has been giving out more frequently. However they are both named "Bronze Star Medal.' Does anyone have any information on the latter type? If it has the same, I don't know how to distinguish it from the Bronze Star Medal for Valor to find information on it. DrLRM ( talk) 20:09, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
The Silver Star page says this one falls behind it in the order, yet this page says otherwise. Which one is correct? --Kevin W. 21:17, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
The order of precedence states that the Purple Heart follows the Bronze Star Medal in precedence - yet th official portrait of James Stockdale [1] shows him wearing the Air Medal before the Purple Heart. I doubt he would have gotten the precedence wrong for an official portrait. Marcerickson ( talk) 02:52, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
"...when you are awarded the Medal of Honor you can wear the uniform as you please..." Ah! Thank you! Can you please cite the reference for that? It isn't currently on the Wikipedia Medal Of Honor page. Marcerickson ( talk) 03:38, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
Have posted it to reddit [2] to ID the medal on the right of the Purple Heart. Marcerickson ( talk) 06:13, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
I haven't been able to find the old order of precedence chart. The medal he has between the Bronze Star and his Purple Heart is definitely the Air Medal. I think it's a good educated guess that Admiral Stockdale's medal ordering reflects the pre-1985 change to the purple heart order of precedence. - Atfyfe ( talk) 17:58, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
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Is there a source that lists approximately how many recipients there are of the Bronze Star Medal? - NDCompuGeek 06:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
List of Bronze Star Medal Recipients (may not be complete, but claims to have almost every recipient): http://www.ranker.com/list/bronze-star-medal-winners/reference DrLRM ( talk) 20:09, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
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The community recently decided to delete the category for recipients of the Bronze Star. I anticipate deleting the section on recipients in the article because it is inherently incomplete, constitutes original research, and suggests that some recipients are more important than others.-- Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 00:06, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
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After the RfC on Silver Star, suggest we name this article Bronze Star to match. Garuda28 ( talk) 18:34, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
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Why is this at Bronze Star Medal while Purple Heart is not at Purple Heart Medal? Rmhermen 21:08, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)
Because there is a bronze star device that can also be awarded in the US Armed forces. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.162.128.54 ( talk) 14:42, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
The Bronze Star Medal is the official name of the award (a decoration with or w/o the "V" device). Its referred to sometimes as a "Bronze Star" and sometimes bronze 3/16" service stars are mistaken to be Bronze Star Medals ("Bronze Stars"). The Navy and Marine Corps (manual), use Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal, and Purple Heart Medal for these awards and uses a "combat distinguishing device" (Combat "V") instead of "V" Device. The Combat "V" may be authorized for wear for valor or for being exposed to personal hazard involving direct participation in combat operations. The Army authorizes the "V" Device (for valor only) to be worn. Both the Army "V" Device and the Navy-Marine Combat "V" are "V" devices. The Purple Heart (Purple Heart medal) and Purple Heart Medal are the same military awards. YahwehSaves.
I have heard that there are two types of bronze star medals. One more prestigious with fewer recipients, and the other less prestigious with more recipients that the Army has been giving out more frequently. However they are both named "Bronze Star Medal.' Does anyone have any information on the latter type? If it has the same, I don't know how to distinguish it from the Bronze Star Medal for Valor to find information on it. DrLRM ( talk) 20:09, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
The Silver Star page says this one falls behind it in the order, yet this page says otherwise. Which one is correct? --Kevin W. 21:17, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
The order of precedence states that the Purple Heart follows the Bronze Star Medal in precedence - yet th official portrait of James Stockdale [1] shows him wearing the Air Medal before the Purple Heart. I doubt he would have gotten the precedence wrong for an official portrait. Marcerickson ( talk) 02:52, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
"...when you are awarded the Medal of Honor you can wear the uniform as you please..." Ah! Thank you! Can you please cite the reference for that? It isn't currently on the Wikipedia Medal Of Honor page. Marcerickson ( talk) 03:38, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
Have posted it to reddit [2] to ID the medal on the right of the Purple Heart. Marcerickson ( talk) 06:13, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
I haven't been able to find the old order of precedence chart. The medal he has between the Bronze Star and his Purple Heart is definitely the Air Medal. I think it's a good educated guess that Admiral Stockdale's medal ordering reflects the pre-1985 change to the purple heart order of precedence. - Atfyfe ( talk) 17:58, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
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Is there a source that lists approximately how many recipients there are of the Bronze Star Medal? - NDCompuGeek 06:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
List of Bronze Star Medal Recipients (may not be complete, but claims to have almost every recipient): http://www.ranker.com/list/bronze-star-medal-winners/reference DrLRM ( talk) 20:09, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Bronze Star Medal's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Army":
Reference named "CoastGuard":
Reference named "AirForce":
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 21:55, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
The community recently decided to delete the category for recipients of the Bronze Star. I anticipate deleting the section on recipients in the article because it is inherently incomplete, constitutes original research, and suggests that some recipients are more important than others.-- Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 00:06, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
I had hoped for more discussion but am proceeding with the section removal. The following apply:
-- Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 15:48, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
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After the RfC on Silver Star, suggest we name this article Bronze Star to match. Garuda28 ( talk) 18:34, 3 June 2023 (UTC)