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UNIT AND INDIVIDUAL CITATIONS The following are a representation of the total number of citations earned by this battalion. If you earned an award with 3/27, please forward a copy to one of the primary historians.						PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION First Marine Division   MERITORIOUS UNIT COMMENDATIONS Third Battalion, 27th Marines   Company I, 3rd Bn., 27th Marines In Support of 7th Marine Regiment, et al.
MEDAL OF HONOR Burke, Robert C.						NAVY CROSS   Buchanan, Richard, W. Yordy, Charles R.
	SILVER STAR Belser, Joseph H.   Bower, Burton K.   Burton, John T.   Butler, Charles R.   Chiofolo, Vincent N.   Hazelwood, John Edward Jackson, Marlin Winslow   Jester, Herbert A. Neal, Hiawhahnah R. Much, Gary W. Sharpe, Thomas E. Stoppa, Michael D. Thuesen, Thomas R. Twilling, Henry M. III Whyte, Charles Woodham, Tullis J.
		LEGION OF MERIT Woodham, Tullis J.			BRONZE STAR Benavidez, Edward Davis, Tim Dyer, Robert A. Jung, William C. May, Gary E. Prish, William A.   Rostron, George S. Jr. Smith, Mark F. Swagerty, Charles M. Thompson, Stephen Zalipski, John M.
								NAVY ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL Dreger, Daniel J. Fontana, Robert Hight, G.E. Holzhauer, Douglas E. Rigney, Terry W. Schulz, Robert Scott, James E. Ward, James A.
			_______________ Vietnam Military Merit Medal   Burke, Robert Charles,PFC I/3/27/1MarDiv USMC NAVY COMMENDATION MEDAL Casteel, Roy Ellison, David J. Hight, G.E. Jenkins, David Craig Pelky, Richard Raible, Matthew H. Spencer, Jesse W.,Jr. Ward, James A. Watkins, Ray C. ____________________ The Vietnam Military Merit Medal was the highest military decoration of South Vietnam during the years of the Vietnam War. Created in 1950, the Military Merit Medal was modeled after the French Médaille Militaire, and was the Vietnamese equivalent to the United States Medal of Honor and was authorized to those soldiers who had performed extreme acts of bravery or had given their lives in armed combat with enemy forces of Vietnam. A stipulation of the Vietnam Military Merit Medal was that it could only be bestowed upon enlisted personnel. For military officers, the National Order of Vietnam was considered an equivalent decoration. The United States military authorized the Vietnam Military Merit Medal as a foreign decoration and permitted the medal to be worn on U.S. uniforms. A high number of bestowals, however, were made posthumously as the medal was most often awarded to United States enlisted personnel who had been killed in action fighting the forces of North Vietnam or the guerilla forces of the Viet Cong. The Vietnam Military Merit Medal was last issued to U.S. personnel in 1973 and was discontinued after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975.

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