The Commendation Medal is a mid-level United States military award/ decoration which is presented for sustained acts of heroism or meritorious service. For valorous actions in direct contact with an enemy force, but of a lesser degree than required for the award of the Bronze Star, the Valor device ("V" device) may be authorized as an attachment to the decoration. Each branch of the United States Armed Forces issues its own version of the Commendation Medal, with a fifth version existing for acts of joint military service performed under the Department of Defense.
The Good Conduct Medal is one of the oldest military decorations of the United States military. The Navy Good Conduct Medal was first issued in 1869, followed by a Marine version in 1896. The Coast Guard Good Conduct Medal was issued in 1923 and the Army Good Conduct Medal in 1941. The Air Force was the last service to create a Good Conduct Medal in 1963. The USAF discontinued the Good Conduct Medal for a brief period from February 2006 to February 2009.
The Navy Expeditionary Medal is an award of the United States Navy which was first created in August 1936 by General Orders of the Department of the Navy. The medal will be awarded to the officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who shall have actually landed on foreign territory and engaged in operations against armed opposition, or operated under circumstances which, after full consideration, shall be deemed to merit special recognition and for which service no campaign medal has been awarded.
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USS Cincinnati (SSN 693)I was sleeping and someone yanked me out of bed and was yelling that the towed array handling station had 'blown up', and one of our guys almost got killed. When I got there the guy was sitting on the floor outside the room and said that something blew up so he crawled out. Inside the room there was 3,000 pound hydraulic fluid (enough pressure to cut of a limb, or put a hole in a person) spraying all over. We isolated the hydraulics to the whole room. Somehow while the array was being retrieved, the cable reel had seized, and the supply-hydraulics had blown out. The array was out at about (Classified) feet and our depth was about (Classified) feet, and we were someplace we were not supposed to be. The captain said we had no choice but to cut the cable and leave the array and cable laying on the seafloor, and hope nobody ever found it. We could not pull in anywhere without damaging everything anyway. There was a built in shear valve to cut the cable in an emergency. We put three of our biggest guys on it to cut the cable. The shear valve handle broke off. So now we can't reel it in and we can't cut it off, so we could have to go back and abandon the whole mission. I told the captain that since it was my gear (equipment that I was the system expert on), to give me some time to figure it out. He said he would let the sub do slow circles for about 24 hours, and I could have whoever I wanted helping me. I chose a Machinist Mate friend of mine because we both worked on cars and drag-raced most of our time on shore. We had no source for parts because this equipment was not meant to be repaired at sea. We dismantled the whole thing and figured out what broke. We made gaskets and found o-rings and other parts that were for different equipment. We fixed the handling station after working for about 18 hours straight thru and continued our mission. |
6/10/2011
