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[CITE: 10USC8746]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                          Subtitle D--Air Force
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                   CHAPTER 857--DECORATIONS AND AWARDS
 
Sec. 8746. Silver star: award

    The President may award a silver star of appropriate design, with 
ribbons and appurtenances, to a person who, while serving in any 
capacity with the Air Force, is cited for gallantry in action that does 
not warrant a medal of honor or Air Force cross--
        (1) while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United 
    States;
        (2) while engaged in military operations involving conflict with 
    an opposing foreign force; or
        (3) while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an 
    armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United 
    States is not a belligerent party.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 541; Pub. L. 88-77, Sec. 3(3), July 
25, 1963, 77 Stat. 95.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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8746..................................  10:1412.                             Ju
ly 9, 1918, ch. 143 (words after
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d semicolon of 12th par. under
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`Ordnance Department''); restated
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an. 24, 1920, ch. 55, Sec.  1
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last sentence); restated Dec. 15,
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942, ch. 736, 56 Stat. 1052.
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    The words ``may award'' are inserted to conform to other sections of 
this chapter. The words ``if the person earned'' are inserted for 
clarity. The words ``commanded by'' are omitted as surplusage.


                               Amendments

    1963--Pub. L. 88-77 substituted provisions permitting the issuance 
of a silver star for gallantry while engaged in an action against an 
enemy of the United States, while engaged in military operations 
involving conflict with an opposing foreign force, or while serving with 
friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing 
armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party, and 
requiring it to be of appropriate design, for provisions which 
authorized the issuance of the silver star for gallantry in action and 
which required that the silver star be three-sixteenths of an inch in 
diameter, the citation thereof be published in orders issued from the 
headquarters of a force that is the appropriate command of a general 
officer, and that it be worn as directed by the President.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 8748 of this title.
