Category: Chief Commanders of the Legion of Merit

The acts of merit or acts of valor must be less than that required for the Legion of Merit but must nevertheless have been meritorious and accomplished with distinction.

Category: Recipients of the Legion of Merit

Category: Recipients of the Legion of Merit

For his work there, he received the Legion of Merit award.

Category: Recipients of the Legion of Merit

Category: Recipients of the Legion of Merit

* Legion of Merit, American

The Legion of Merit ( Commander degree ) is one of only two United States military decorations to be issued as a neck order ( the other being the Medal of Honor ) and the only United States decoration which may be issued in award degrees ( much like an order of chivalry or certain Orders of Merit ).

The Legion of Merit is sixth in the order of precedence of U. S. Military awards and is worn after the Defense Superior Service Medal and before the Distinguished Flying Cross.

In contemporary use in the U. S. Armed Forces, the Legion of Merit is typically awarded to Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force general officers and colonels, and Navy and Coast Guard flag officers and captains occupying command or very senior staff positions in their respective services.

* When the Legion of Merit is awarded to members of the Armed Forces of the United States it is awarded without reference to degree.

The criteria are " for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements "; additional awards of the Legion of Merit are denoted by oak leaf clusters ( in the Army and Air Force ), and by 5 / 16 inch stars ( in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard ).

The sea services ( i. e., the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard ) also permit the wearing of the " V " device ( Combat " V ") on the Legion of Merit, while the Army and Air Force do not.

The design of the Legion of Merit ( change of name ) would be ready for issue immediately after legislation authorizing it was enacted into law.

An Act of Congress ( Public Law 671 — 77th Congress, Chapter 508, 2d Session ) on July 20, 1942, established the Legion of Merit and provided that the medal " shall have suitable appurtenances and devices and not more than four degrees, and which the President, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, may award to

Executive Order 9260, dated October 29, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, established the rules for the Legion of Merit and required the President's approval for the award.

With the establishment of the Legion of Merit, by an Act of Congress, the practice of awarding the Purple Heart for meritorious service was discontinued.

The National Museum of Australia in Canberra holds a significant collection of memorabilia relating to Robert Menzies, including a range of medals and civil awards received by Sir Robert such as his Jubilee and Coronation medals, Order of Australia, Companion of Honour and US Legion of Merit.

* In 1950 Menzies was awarded the Legion of Merit ( Chief Commander ) by U. S. President Harry S. Truman for " exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services 1941 – 1944 and December 1949 – July 1950 ".

* 1950, he was appointed a Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit

Category: Recipients of the Legion of Merit

General Franks ' awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal ; Distinguished Service Medal ( two awards ); Legion of Merit ( four awards ); Bronze Star with Valor device and two oak leaf clusters ; Purple Heart ( two oak leaf clusters ); Air Medal with Valor Device ; Army Commendation Medal with Valor Device ; and a number of U. S. and foreign service awards.

In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Aurelianus ( here called " Aurelianus Ambrosius Ventidius ") is a major character and is shown as one of the last loyal Romans, going to enormous lengths for his boy emperor Romulus Augustus, whose power has been wrested by the barbarian Odoacer.

* In William C. Dietz's Legion of the Damned the Legion is made up of a combination of humans and heavily armed cyborgs.

In the future of the Legion of Super-Heroes, his secret identity is historical fact, with exhibits at a Superman Museum depicting the hero and his friends and family's adventures.

Xavier is seen using his powers to help his son Legion control his many personalities and battle the Nimrods.

The Foreign Legion is today known as an elite military unit whose training focuses not only on traditional military skills but also on its strong esprit de corps.

The captain had a wooden hand which was stolen during the battle ; it was later returned to the Foreign Legion and is now kept in a case in the Foreign Legion Museum at Aubagne, and paraded annually on Camerone Day.

Some notable operations include: the Chadian – Libyan conflict in 1969 – 72 ( the first time that the Foreign Legion was sent in operations after the Algerian War ), 1978 – 79, and 1983 – 87 ; Kolwezi in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1978 ; Rwanda in 1990 – 94 ; and the Côte d ' Ivoire ( the Ivory Coast ) in 2002 to the present.

Camulodunum was burned to the ground, as well as Londinium and Verulamium, there is some archaeological evidence that the same happened at Winchester as well, and the Second Legion Augusta, stationed at Exeter, refused to move for fear of revolt among the locals there as well.

In 1937, he received the Légion d ' honneur, and his pride at the honor is reflected in his self-portrait of the time, in which one can see his Legion pin on his lapel.

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.

Also present is a scene where, after Brian has led the Fifth Legion to the headquarters of the People's Front of Judea, Reg ( John Cleese ) says " You cunt !!

* " Legion " is a song by VNV Nation from the album Empires

* In Mass Effect 2, Legion is the designation given to a Geth terminal encountered and befriended by Commander Shepard

* In the video game series Fallout ( series ) The Legion is a group of slavers based on the Roman Legion in the post apocalyptic wasteland.

* Lajjun, Palestinian village whose name is derived from " Legion "

In 2002, Djibouti agreed to host a U. S. military presence at Camp Lemonnier, a former French Foreign Legion base outside the capital that now houses approximately 3, 500 American personnel.

General Jean Mordacq intended to rebuild the Foreign Legion as a larger military formation, doing away with the legion's traditional role as a solely infantry formation.

Following the war, many former German soldiers joined the Foreign Legion to pursue a military career with an elite unit, an option that was no longer possible in Germany.

The effect was to retain the Foreign Legion as a professional force which could be used for military interventions outside France and not involve the politically unpopular use of French conscripts.

In an effort to realise Gaddafi's vision of a united Arab military force, plans for the creation of an Islamic Arab Legion were being announced from time to time.

The most curious case came in Russia where the Czechoslovak Legion of Czechoslovak prisoners ( from the Austro-Hungarian army ): they were released in 1917, armed themselves, briefly culminating into a military and diplomatic force during the Russian Civil War.

For his military service, he received 18 decorations, medals and awards, including the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star with Valor device, Purple Heart, World War II Victory Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, Belgium's Order of the Crown and France's Croix de Guerre.

The military press censor at SHAEF made a mistake and allowed the Cowan cable to go out starting with " Allied air bosses have made the long awaited decision to adopt deliberate terror bombing of great German population centres | date = September / October 1996 | url = http :// www. legionmagazine. com / en / index. php / 1996 / 09 / the-bomber-command-offensive / | title = The Bomber Command Offensive | publisher = originally published in the Legion Magazine

On his return to Hollywood after the war, he received the Legion of Merit, an American military decoration.

* The character Mull Pasha that is played by Dr. J. W. Müller is loosely based on the real life European military leader who served on one Middle country: John Bagot Glubb also known as " Glubb Pasha " who led the Arab Legion in Jordan.

In addition, the South African Legion holds a street collection to gather funds to assist in welfare work among military veterans.

They tried to overrun two French military outpost and gain support for local Muslim tribes loyal to France, but instead they were harassed and eventually defeated by Legion units led by Colonel Albert Brothier after several days of fighting.

While the French army has not included any grenadiers since 1870, the grenade badge is still a distinctive mark of the Foreign Legion, the National Gendarmerie and the French Customs which was a military unit until 1940.

Washington placed Wayne in command of a newly-formed military force called the " Legion of the United States ".

Perhaps the distinctions between dragons of western origin and Chinese dragons are arbitrary, since the later Roman dragon was certainly of Iranian origin: in the Roman Empire, where each military cohort had a particular identifying signum, ( military standard ), after the Parthian and Dacian Wars of Trajan in the east, the Dacian Draco military standard entered the Legion with the Cohors Sarmatarum and Cohors Dacorum ( Sarmatian and Dacian cohorts )— a large dragon fixed to the end of a lance, with large gaping jaws of silver and with the rest of the body formed of colored silk.

The Lieutenant Douglas B. Fournet Memorial Park, an American Legion enterprise, was dedicated on June 11, 1988, in Kinder to remember those who died in military service to the nation.

His military decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, and the Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters.

For ten years, Louis served in the military with distinction, being awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor.