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Code · U.S. Code · Title 10 - ARMED FORCES · CHAPTER 57— DECORATIONS AND AWARDS · § 1136

§ 1136. Honorable service requirement for award of military decorations

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No military decoration, including a medal, cross, or bar, or an associated emblem or insignia, may be awarded or presented to any person, or to a representative of the person, if the service of the person after the person distinguished himself or herself has not been honorable.
(Added Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title V, § 582(a)(1), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1411.)
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