{"identifier":"/us/usc/t10/s9274","title":10,"num":"\u00a7\u202f9274.","heading":"Medal of honor; Air Force cross; distinguished-service medal: limitations on award","text":"\u00a7\u202f9274.\nMedal of honor; Air Force cross; distinguished-service medal: limitations on award\n(a) No more than one Air Force Cross or distinguished-service medal may be awarded to a person. However, for each succeeding act that would otherwise justify the award of such a medal or cross, the President may award a suitable bar or other device to be worn as he directs.\n(b) Except as provided in subsection (c), no medal of honor, Air Force cross, distinguished-service medal, or device in place thereof, may be awarded to a person unless\u2014\n(1) the award is made within five years after the date of the act justifying the award;\n(2) a statement setting forth the distinguished service and recommending official recognition of it was made within three years after the distinguished service; and\n(3) it appears from records of the Department of the Air Force that the person is entitled to the award.\n(c) If the Secretary of the Air Force determines that\u2014\n(1) a statement setting forth the distinguished service and recommending official recognition of it was made and supported by sufficient evidence within three years after the distinguished service; and\n(2) no award was made, because the statement was lost or through inadvertence the recommendation was not acted on;\na medal of honor, Air Force cross, distinguished-service medal, or device in place thereof, as the case may be, may be awarded to the person concerned within two years after the date of that determination.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t10/s9274.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s9274","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f9274."},{"t":"heading","text":"Medal of honor; Air Force cross; distinguished-service medal: limitations on award"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s9274/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"content","text":" No more than one Air Force Cross or distinguished-service medal may be awarded to a person. However, for each succeeding act that would otherwise justify the award of such a medal or cross, the President may award a suitable bar or other device to be worn as he directs.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s9274/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" Except as provided in subsection (c), no medal of honor, Air Force cross, distinguished-service medal, or device in place thereof, may be awarded to a person unless\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s9274/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" the award is made within five years after the date of the act justifying the award;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s9274/b/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" a statement setting forth the distinguished service and recommending official recognition of it was made within three years after the distinguished service; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s9274/b/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" it appears from records of the Department of the Air Force that the person is entitled to the award.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s9274/c","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(c)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" If the Secretary of the Air Force determines that\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s9274/c/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" a statement setting forth the distinguished service and recommending official recognition of it was made and supported by sufficient evidence within three years after the distinguished service; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s9274/c/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" no award was made, because the statement was lost or through inadvertence the recommendation was not acted on;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n\n"},{"t":"continuation","text":"a medal of honor, Air Force cross, distinguished-service medal, or device in place thereof, as the case may be, may be awarded to the person concerned within two years after the date of that determination.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}