In 2012, the US Air Force alleged that two of its female airmen were subjected to cyber-bullying after receiving Bronze Star Medals for meritorious non-combat service.

Separate Distinguished Service Medals exist for the different branches of the military as well as a fifth version of the medal which is a senior award of the United States Department of Defense.

This decoration takes precedence over the Distinguished Service Medals of the separate services and is not to be awarded to any individual for a period of service for which an Army, Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal is awarded.

Current and previous physics faculty have won eight Nobel Prizes, four Dirac Medals, and three Wolf Prizes predominantly for their contributions to subatomic and quantum theory.

He earned ten Silver Stars for service in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, in addition to eight Bronze Star Medals and eight Purple Hearts.

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.

Two soldiers of the U. S. 4th Infantry Division were awarded Medals of Honor for action in the battle.

Medals, and more recently trophies, are awarded for gold, silver and bronze positions in each competition as well as ranks, with similar awards for the top juniors in each event.

* Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals Medal " Merit for National Defense " – 1973, 1968 and 1966

" The Nobel Prize Medals and the Medal for the Prize in Economics ".

* Icehouse: Icehouse is an ice lager ( 5. 5 % alcohol by volume ) and was the winner of the 2003 and 2007 Gold Medals for American-Style Specialty Lager at the Great American Beer Festival, and also won the American-style Ice Lager Gold Cup of the 1996 and 1998 World Beer Cup competitions.

Awards for gallantry for individual officers since 1969 included 16 George Medals, 103 Queen's Gallantry Medals, 111 Queen's Commendations for Bravery and 69 Queen's Police Medals.

* Governor General's Medals in Architecture at the Canada Council for the Arts

This award is intended for senior service on a joint military staff and is senior in precedence to service-specific Commendation Medals.

Powell's civilian awards include two Presidential Medals of Freedom, the President's Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Secretary of State Distinguished Service Medal, the Secretary of Energy Distinguished Service Medal, and the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award.

The opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians ( ICM ) is where the awards are presented: Fields Medals ( two to four medals are given since 1936 ), the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize ( since 1986 ), the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize ( since 2006 ), and the Chern Medal Award ( since 2010 ).

Another measure of the difference between these two similarly named but very distinct awards is their per-capita frequency of award: from 1946 to 1961 the average annual incidence of award of the Medal of Freedom was approximately 1 per every 86, 500 adult U. S. citizens ; from 1996 to 2011 the average annual incidence of award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was approximately 1 per every 20, 500, 000 adult U. S. citizens ( so on an annualized per capita basis, about 240 Medals of Freedom have been awarded per one Presidential Medal of Freedom ).

To date, seven Nobel prizes and two Fields Medals have been awarded to faculty and alumni of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn:

* Cheri Elliott-Legendary Cyclist: Fourteen Time World & National Champion, including two X-Games Gold Medals, and Two Hall of Fame Inductions-United States Bicycling Hall of Fame and the National BMX Hall of Fame.

* Catherine Fox, swimmer, winner of two Gold Medals at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia

A total of 19 men have been awarded the Medal of Honor twice, 14 of these received two separate medals for two separate actions, while 5 received both the Navy and Army Medals of Honor for the same action.

For this remarkable feat of arms the HAC was awarded two Distinguished Service Orders, five Military Crosses, three Distinguished Conduct Medals and 29 Military Medals.

Corwin won a One World Award, two Peabody Medals, an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a duPont-Columbia Award ; he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Lust for Life ( 1956 ).

He has received two Commendation Medals by the U. S. Public Health Service and numerous other awards and tributes.

In the Second World War, two Distinguished Service Orders and eight Distinguished Conduct Medals, along with a large number of lesser awards, were awarded to servicemen from the town.

Colonel Casper has been awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, two Legion of Merit Awards, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, 11 Air Medals, two Defense Meritorious Service Medals, six Air Force Commendation Medals, the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, two NASA Distinguished Service Medals, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, four NASA Space Flight Medals, and the National Intelligence Achievement Medal.

During the 2012 London Olympics, Royal Mail offered an incentive for Team GB athletes to win Gold Medals through the promise to paint a postbox in the hometown of each recipient gold and a box near Westminster Abbey was painted gold as a demonstration model.

Medals were awarded in 16 events, and 7 sports.

Medals were awarded in 14 events in 5 sports ( 7 disciplines ).

Medals were awarded in 17 events in 6 sports ( 8 disciplines ).

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Military Medals

Other ranks were awarded 32 Distinguished Conduct Medals and 218 Military Medals.

Although they did not feature in any major engagement as a unit, members of the regiment were awarded 1 Military Cross ( MC ) and 3 Military Medals ( MM ).

On 15 May 1942 a special supplement to the London Gazette carried the announcement of 19 decorations ; Frost was awarded the Military Cross ( MC ), Cook the Distinguished Service Cross ( DSC ) and Cox the Military Medal ( MM ); there were two other DSCs, two Distinguished Service Medals, one other MC, two further MMs and 9 Mentions in Despatches.

Soldiers of the battalion were Mentioned in Despatches 26 times, and were awarded 1 Victoria Cross, 5 Distinguished Service Awards, and 227 Military Crosses or Military Medals.

* Military Medals of Honor ( Japan )

42 Commando captured 300 prisoners on Mount Harriet, and for the bravery shown in the attack, the unit was awarded one DSO, one Military Cross, four Military Medals, and eight men were mentioned in dispatches.

For the bravery shown in the attack on Two Sisters, men from 45 Commando were awarded one DSO, three Military Crosses, one DCM and four Military Medals.

* Three Military Medals ( Sergeant Des Fuller, Corporal Ian Bailey, and Private Richard Absolon )

* Military Orders, Decorations, and Medals of the Republic of Vietnam

He was awarded the Military Cross for maintaining communications under heavy fire, and, for the same action at the Somme, his non-commissioned officers received Military Medals.

These included: 3 Members of the British Empire, 5 Military Crosses, 4 Orders of British India, 1 Indian Order of Merit, 13 Military Medals, 15 Indian Distinguished Service Medals and 7 British Empire Medals.