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| S No | Title | Description | Image Ribbons | Image Medals |
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| 1 | Virtual Defence Meritourious Service Medal 4 |
CRITERIA REQUIREMENTS. Awarded to members of the VVNAVY who distinguished themselves by outstanding meritorious achievement or service to the VVNAVY that spans two or more components of the VVNAVY. To justify this decoration, the acts or services rendered by an individual, regardless of grade or rate, must have been comparable to that required for the Virtual Defense Superior Service Medal but in a duty of lesser responsibility. When the degree of meritorious achievement or service rendered is not sufficient to warrant the award of the Virtual Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Virtual Joint Service Commendation Medal, when appropriate, should be considered.
|  |  | | 2 | Virtual Defence Meritourious Service Medal 5 |
CRITERIA REQUIREMENTS. Awarded to members of the VVNAVY who distinguished themselves by outstanding meritorious achievement or service to the VVNAVY that spans two or more components of the VVNAVY. To justify this decoration, the acts or services rendered by an individual, regardless of grade or rate, must have been comparable to that required for the Virtual Defense Superior Service Medal but in a duty of lesser responsibility. When the degree of meritorious achievement or service rendered is not sufficient to warrant the award of the Virtual Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Virtual Joint Service Commendation Medal, when appropriate, should be considered.
|  | | | 3 | Virtual Meritourious Service Medal |
CRITERIA REQUIREMENTS. Awarded to members of the VVNAVY who distinguished themselves by outstanding meritorious achievement or service to the VVNAVY. To justify this decoration, the acts or services rendered by an individual, regardless of grade or rate, must have been comparable to that required for the Virtual Legion of Merit but in a duty of lesser responsibility. The Virtual Meritorious Service Medal is the counterpart of the Virtual Bronze Star Medal for the recognition of meritorious non-combat service. When the degree of meritorious achievement or service rendered is not sufficient to warrant the award of the Virtual Meritorious Service Medal, the Virtual VVNAVY Commendation Medal, when appropriate, should be considered.
|  |  | | 4 | Virtual Meritourious Service Medal 1 |
CRITERIA REQUIREMENTS. Awarded to members of the VVNAVY who distinguished themselves by outstanding meritorious achievement or service to the VVNAVY. To justify this decoration, the acts or services rendered by an individual, regardless of grade or rate, must have been comparable to that required for the Virtual Legion of Merit but in a duty of lesser responsibility. The Virtual Meritorious Service Medal is the counterpart of the Virtual Bronze Star Medal for the recognition of meritorious non-combat service. When the degree of meritorious achievement or service rendered is not sufficient to warrant the award of the Virtual Meritorious Service Medal, the Virtual VVNAVY Commendation Medal, when appropriate, should be considered.
|  | | | 5 | Virtual Meritourious Service Medal 2 |
CRITERIA REQUIREMENTS. Awarded to members of the VVNAVY who distinguished themselves by outstanding meritorious achievement or service to the VVNAVY. To justify this decoration, the acts or services rendered by an individual, regardless of grade or rate, must have been comparable to that required for the Virtual Legion of Merit but in a duty of lesser responsibility. The Virtual Meritorious Service Medal is the counterpart of the Virtual Bronze Star Medal for the recognition of meritorious non-combat service. When the degree of meritorious achievement or service rendered is not sufficient to warrant the award of the Virtual Meritorious Service Medal, the Virtual VVNAVY Commendation Medal, when appropriate, should be considered.
|  | | | 6 | Virtual Meritourious Service Medal 3 |
CRITERIA REQUIREMENTS. Awarded to members of the VVNAVY who distinguished themselves by outstanding meritorious achievement or service to the VVNAVY. To justify this decoration, the acts or services rendered by an individual, regardless of grade or rate, must have been comparable to that required for the Virtual Legion of Merit but in a duty of lesser responsibility. The Virtual Meritorious Service Medal is the counterpart of the Virtual Bronze Star Medal for the recognition of meritorious non-combat service. When the degree of meritorious achievement or service rendered is not sufficient to warrant the award of the Virtual Meritorious Service Medal, the Virtual VVNAVY Commendation Medal, when appropriate, should be considered.
|  | | | 7 | Virtual Meritourious Service Medal 4 |
CRITERIA REQUIREMENTS. Awarded to members of the VVNAVY who distinguished themselves by outstanding meritorious achievement or service to the VVNAVY. To justify this decoration, the acts or services rendered by an individual, regardless of grade or rate, must have been comparable to that required for the Virtual Legion of Merit but in a duty of lesser responsibility. The Virtual Meritorious Service Medal is the counterpart of the Virtual Bronze Star Medal for the recognition of meritorious non-combat service. When the degree of meritorious achievement or service rendered is not sufficient to warrant the award of the Virtual Meritorious Service Medal, the Virtual VVNAVY Commendation Medal, when appropriate, should be considered.
|  | | | 8 | Virtual Meritourious Service Medal 5 |
CRITERIA REQUIREMENTS. Awarded to members of the VVNAVY who distinguished themselves by outstanding meritorious achievement or service to the VVNAVY. To justify this decoration, the acts or services rendered by an individual, regardless of grade or rate, must have been comparable to that required for the Virtual Legion of Merit but in a duty of lesser responsibility. The Virtual Meritorious Service Medal is the counterpart of the Virtual Bronze Star Medal for the recognition of meritorious non-combat service. When the degree of meritorious achievement or service rendered is not sufficient to warrant the award of the Virtual Meritorious Service Medal, the Virtual VVNAVY Commendation Medal, when appropriate, should be considered.
|  | | | 9 | Virtual Air Medal |
a. CRITERIA REQUIREMENTS. In adjudging the appropriate awards for the various members of a flight crew, the pilot responsible for flying the aircraft is sometimes eligible for a higher award than other members of the flight crew. However, in a two-seat aircraft where the pilot and crewmember constitute a team and function as an integral part of the weapons system, both would generally be eligible for the same award. A crewmember other than the pilot should not be precluded from receiving a higher award if circumstances so indicate. Each case will be considered on its own merits. The Air Medal may be awarded in two categories:
(1) INDIVIDUAL AWARD. Awarded to persons who, while serving in any capacity with the VVNAVY, distinguishes himself/herself by heroic/meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight combat involving conflict with a non-VVNAVY opposing force as part of a
CNO
officially sanctioned ladder or tournament. A 3/16 inch bronze star is worn to denote first individual award of the Virtual Air Medal. Gold stars are worn to denote second and subsequent individual awards of the Virtual Air Medal.
(2) STRIKE/FLIGHT AWARD. Awarded to persons who, while serving in any capacity with the VVNAVY, distinguish themselves by meritorious achievement while participating in successful aerial flight combat as part of a VVNAVY wide,
CNO
approved scenario driven mission. Bronze numerals are worn to denote total number of Strike/Flight Awards.
b. DEFINITIONS
(1) STRIKE. Those sorties which deliver ordnance against the enemy, land or evacuate personnel in assault or engage in search and rescue (SAR) operations which encounter enemy opposition.
(2) FLIGHT. Those sorties which deliver ordnance against the enemy, land or evacuate personnel in assault or engage in Search and Rescue operations which encounter no enemy opposition.
(3) DIRECT COMBAT SUPPORT
MISSION
. Those missions which include reconnaissance, target combat air patrol, electronic countermeasures (ECM) support, psychological warfare, patrol operations in support of coastal surveillance, etc., which do not necessarily involve delivery of ordnance against the enemy, or landing or evacuating personnel in assault or engaging in Search and Rescue (SAR) operations. However, those direct combat support missions that encounter enemy opposition equivalent to that encountered by a strike should be considered as a strike sortie. Examples are photo reconnaissance, target combat air patrol (TARCAP) and ECM aircraft that are endangered by anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) and surface to air missiles (SAMs). Administrative and logistical flights between established airbases or secure areas and/or ships are not considered qualifying as direct combat support sorties.
c. MODIFICATIONS. Awarding authorities are authorized to deviate from the above criteria, when appropriate, with due regard to hazard and exposure incurred in sustained aerial flight operations.
d. REQUIREMENTS. The award of the Virtual Air Medal on a strike/flight basis shall require 25 points.
(1) 12 strikes (1 strike = 2 points), or
(2) 25 flights (1 flight = 1 point), or
(3) 75 missions (1 mission = .4 points), or
(4) 300 flight hours in direct combat support missions that do not encounter enemy opposition (25 hours = 2 points), or
e. SPECIAL PROVISIONS.
(1) Only personnel under flight orders approved by NAVAIR are eligible to receive the strike/flight award of the Air Medal.
(2) The individual award of a Virtual Air Medal, or other personal decoration for a particular sortie, should not preclude that sortie from counting toward CRITERIA for a strike/flight award of the Virtual Air Medal.
(3) Officers of the rank of captain/colonel or above shall not be eligible for the award of the Virtual Air Medal on a strike/flight basis unless the sorties involved were actually required in the performance of their regular duties. Recommendations involving officers in this category, regardless of the current extent of delegated award authority, shall be forwarded via the chain of command to
CNO
for approval.
f. PERIODS FOR STRIKE/FLIGHT VIRTUAL
AIR
MEDALS. NAVAIR will maintain a listing of periods of CRITERIA to aid in the determination of awards.
g. VIRTUAL COMBAT DISTINGUISHING DEVICE. The Virtual Combat Distinguishing Device may be authorized for single mission Virtual Air Medals for valor (heroism).
|  |  | | 10 | Virtual Air Medal 1 |
a. CRITERIA REQUIREMENTS. In adjudging the appropriate awards for the various members of a flight crew, the pilot responsible for flying the aircraft is sometimes eligible for a higher award than other members of the flight crew. However, in a two-seat aircraft where the pilot and crewmember constitute a team and function as an integral part of the weapons system, both would generally be eligible for the same award. A crewmember other than the pilot should not be precluded from receiving a higher award if circumstances so indicate. Each case will be considered on its own merits. The Air Medal may be awarded in two categories:
(1) INDIVIDUAL AWARD. Awarded to persons who, while serving in any capacity with the VVNAVY, distinguishes himself/herself by heroic/meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight combat involving conflict with a non-VVNAVY opposing force as part of a
CNO
officially sanctioned ladder or tournament. A 3/16 inch bronze star is worn to denote first individual award of the Virtual Air Medal. Gold stars are worn to denote second and subsequent individual awards of the Virtual Air Medal.
(2) STRIKE/FLIGHT AWARD. Awarded to persons who, while serving in any capacity with the VVNAVY, distinguish themselves by meritorious achievement while participating in successful aerial flight combat as part of a VVNAVY wide,
CNO
approved scenario driven mission. Bronze numerals are worn to denote total number of Strike/Flight Awards.
b. DEFINITIONS
(1) STRIKE. Those sorties which deliver ordnance against the enemy, land or evacuate personnel in assault or engage in search and rescue (SAR) operations which encounter enemy opposition.
(2) FLIGHT. Those sorties which deliver ordnance against the enemy, land or evacuate personnel in assault or engage in Search and Rescue operations which encounter no enemy opposition.
(3) DIRECT COMBAT SUPPORT
MISSION
. Those missions which include reconnaissance, target combat air patrol, electronic countermeasures (ECM) support, psychological warfare, patrol operations in support of coastal surveillance, etc., which do not necessarily involve delivery of ordnance against the enemy, or landing or evacuating personnel in assault or engaging in Search and Rescue (SAR) operations. However, those direct combat support missions that encounter enemy opposition equivalent to that encountered by a strike should be considered as a strike sortie. Examples are photo reconnaissance, target combat air patrol (TARCAP) and ECM aircraft that are endangered by anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) and surface to air missiles (SAMs). Administrative and logistical flights between established airbases or secure areas and/or ships are not considered qualifying as direct combat support sorties.
c. MODIFICATIONS. Awarding authorities are authorized to deviate from the above criteria, when appropriate, with due regard to hazard and exposure incurred in sustained aerial flight operations.
d. REQUIREMENTS. The award of the Virtual Air Medal on a strike/flight basis shall require 25 points.
(1) 12 strikes (1 strike = 2 points), or
(2) 25 flights (1 flight = 1 point), or
(3) 75 missions (1 mission = .4 points), or
(4) 300 flight hours in direct combat support missions that do not encounter enemy opposition (25 hours = 2 points), or
e. SPECIAL PROVISIONS.
(1) Only personnel under flight orders approved by NAVAIR are eligible to receive the strike/flight award of the Air Medal.
(2) The individual award of a Virtual Air Medal, or other personal decoration for a particular sortie, should not preclude that sortie from counting toward CRITERIA for a strike/flight award of the Virtual Air Medal.
(3) Officers of the rank of captain/colonel or above shall not be eligible for the award of the Virtual Air Medal on a strike/flight basis unless the sorties involved were actually required in the performance of their regular duties. Recommendations involving officers in this category, regardless of the current extent of delegated award authority, shall be forwarded via the chain of command to
CNO
for approval.
f. PERIODS FOR STRIKE/FLIGHT VIRTUAL
AIR
MEDALS. NAVAIR will maintain a listing of periods of CRITERIA to aid in the determination of awards.
g. VIRTUAL COMBAT DISTINGUISHING DEVICE. The Virtual Combat Distinguishing Device may be authorized for single mission Virtual Air Medals for valor (heroism).
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