Promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral in 1958, the same year he was awarded the first of two Congressional Gold Medals, for nearly the next three decades Rickover exercised tight control over the ships, technology, and personnel of the nuclear Navy, interviewing and approving or denying every prospective officer being considered for a nuclear ship.

He came into the count as a heavy favourite and he is only the twelfth player to have won two or more Brownlow Medals, the first Aboriginal to win two and the first player to win two with a non-Victorian club.

Medals are not the only awards given to competitors ; every athlete placed first to eighth receives an Olympic diploma.

The first George Medals awarded to the RAOC were to Lieutenant R Chalkley and Captain DAS Martin on 13 December 1940 for conspicuous gallantry in carrying out hazardous work.

Medals were not awarded to all combatants in a war or battle until the 19th century ; the Waterloo Medal was the first British medal given to all present, at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the associated actions.

Douglas was one of two winners of the first Fields Medals, awarded in 1936.

In March 1945, the division participated in its first, and only, airborne operation, dropping alongside the British 6th Airborne Division as a part of Operation Varsity, where it gained three more Medals of Honor.

During this period, he directed the salvage of the submarine, earning the first of his three Distinguished Service Medals.

Retiring as a Colonel in the U. S. Air Force in 1964 he was awarded one of the first three Joint Chiefs of Staff Commendation Medals by General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The first Soldier's Medals were awarded on October, 17, 1927 to John F. Burns and James P. Martin for their heroism during a fire and to James K. Wilson and Cleophas C. Burnett for saving people from drowning.

The first two Fields Medals were awarded at the 1936 ICM in Oslo.

The Albert Medals awarded at Tynewydd were the first awarded for gallantry on land.

Bunton played as a rover / follower and achieved instant success, winning Brownlow Medals in his first two seasons ( 1931 and 1932 ) in the VFL.

In addition to the two Medals of Honor, Cukela was awarded the Silver Star by the Army ; the Médaille militaire ( he was the first Marine officer ever to receive this medal ), the Légion d ' honneur in the rank of Chevalier, the Croix de guerre with two palms, another Croix de guerre with Silver Star, all by France ; the Croce al Merito di Guerra by Italy ; and Commander's Cross of the Royal Order of the Crown of Yugoslavia.

The medal was considered a “ transitional decoration ” and was the first of the Good Conduct Medals to be worn on a uniform.

The Lifesaving Medals were first authorized in an Act ( 18 Stat 125, 43rd Congress ) that furthered the United States Life-Saving Service.

Medals for the two demonstration sports Military patrol and Winter pentathlon are not included in this summary, albeit they are listed in the official report of the Swiss Olympic Committee .< ref > Rapport Général sur les V < sup > es </ sup > Jeux Olympiques d ’ hiver St-Moritz 1948 PDF, ( French / German )</ ref > Italy won its first Winter Olympic Medal, a Gold medal.

Although authorized in 1946, it was not until 1947 that the first Army of Occupation Medals were distributed.

The object of the game is to be the first to win a set number of Victory Medals ( usually 4 to 6, depending on the selected battle scenario ’ s victory conditions ).

The first National Medals of Technology were issued in 1985 by then-U. S. President Ronald Reagan to 12 individuals and one company.

In cases where a U. S. service member has received both NATO Medals, they are only entitled to wear the medal or ribbon of the first awarded, however most military services besides the U. S. will allow both decorations to be worn simultaneously as they are considered separate awards.

Similar actions in the Battle of Sayler's Creek resulted in Custer being the first American soldier to receive two Medals of Honor.

In addition, the Pforzheimers were the first Harvard-Radcliffe couple to win Harvard Medals for their service to the University.

In 1946, van Vogt and his first wife, Edna Mayne Hull, were co-Guests of Honor at the fourth World Science Fiction Convention.

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.

He was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Legion of Honor in 1986 for his many years of work with the organization.

He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Institute of Radio Engineers now IEEE Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal.

In 1917 Armstrong was the first recipient of the IRE's, now IEEE Medal of Honor.

The first documented case is that of Marie-Angélique Duchemin ( 1772 – 1859 ), who fought in the Revolutionary Wars, received a military disability pension in 1798, the rank of 2nd lieutenant in 1822, and the Legion of Honor in 1852.

Freas was twice honored as a Guest of Honor at the Worldcon, the first time in 1982 at Chicon IV and again in 2003 at Torcon 3, although a fall suffered shortly before that convention precluded him from attending.

MacLean received a Nebula Award in 1971, for her novella " The Missing Man " ( Analog, March, 1971 ) and she was a Professional Guest of Honor at the first WisCon in 1977.

* 1976 – Michael P. Murphy, U. S. Navy SEAL, first Medal of Honor recipient in the Afghanistan War

* 1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.

Barrayar is a planet colonized by humans some four hundred years prior to Shards of Honor, the first Vorkosigan novel.

When beginning her first novel, Shards of Honor, Bujold incorporated these elements, but greatly expanded.

* 1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U. S. Medal of Honor.

They are the second of only two fathers and sons to earn the Medal of Honor, the first being Arthur MacArthur, Jr. and his son Douglas.

Some other popular first-person shooters during the 2000s include the Medal of Honor series, with Medal of Honor: Frontline's release in 2002 bringing the first game in the series to 7th generation consoles.

* May 23 – Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in 1863, as the first African American to have been awarded this medal.

* August 21 – The Medal of Honor is posthumously awarded to James Anderson, Jr .— he is the first black U. S. Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

* March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.

Although the missions are set-up in a similar fashion ( several different objectives, some to be achieved through stealth, others through use of force ) and in most occasions the player is allowed to change between different characters, this is the first game in the series to apply a first-person perspective, like many Medal of Honor or Call of Duty games than to earlier entries of the series.

He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur, Jr., the first father and son to be awarded the medal.

* Robert Blake ( Medal of Honor recipient ), the first African-American to receive the Medal of Honor