This file was condensed from the one hundred forty one page original. Joseph Betters webmaster@ussvance.com Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Welcome to the Navy Department Awards Web Service web site. This web site is the first phase of a multi-phased effort to provide our customers with online access to Navy awards information and help. Future upgrades will enable additional improvements in the business of Navy awards. Secnavinst 1650.1g N09b13 7 January 2002 Secnav Instruction 1650.1g From: Secretary Of The Navy To: All Ships And Stations Subj: Navy And Marine Corps Awards Manual 1. Purpose. To Provide Information And Regulations On Awards For Individuals And Units In The Naval Service. Page 1 to 40 skipped 14. Combat Action Ribbon (CAR) a. Authorization. SECNAVNOTE 1650 of 17 February 1969. b. Eligibility Requirements (1) Awarded to members of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard (when the Coast Guard or units thereof operate under the control of the Navy) in the grade of captain or colonel and junior thereto, who have actively participated in ground or surface combat. Upon submission of evidence to their commanding officer, personnel who earned the Combat Infantryman Badge or Combat Medical Badge while a member of the U.S. Army may be authorized to wear the CAR. (2) The principal eligibility criterion is that the individual must have participated in a bona fide ground or surface combat fire-fight or action during which he or she was under enemy fire and his/her performance while under fire was satisfactory. Service in a combat area does not automatically entitle a service member to the CAR. The following amplifying remarks are furnished as guidance. (a) Personnel in riverine and coastal operations, assaults, patrols, sweeps, ambushes, convoys, SECNAVINST 1650.1G 2-28 amphibious landings, and similar activities who have participated in fire fights are eligible. (b) Personnel assigned to areas subjected to sustained mortar, missile, and artillery attacks actively participate in retaliatory or offensive actions are eligible. (c) Personnel in clandestine or special operations such as reconnaissance, Seal teams, EOD teams, and Mine Countermeasures operations are eligible when the risk of enemy fire was great and was expected to be encountered. (d) Personnel aboard a ship are eligible when the safety of the ship and the crew were endangered by enemy attack, such as a ship hit by a mine or a ship engaged by shore, surface, air or sub-surface elements. (e) skipped (f) skipped (g) skipped (h) Under Public Law 106-55, the CAR may be awarded retroactively to 07Dec41. c. Operations. An individual, whose eligibility has been established in combat in any of the following listed operations is authorized the award of the CAR. Only one award per operation is authorized. The listing is not all inclusive as SECNAVINST 1650.1G 2-29 the CAR has been awarded in minor operations and for specific actions. Subsequent awards will be indicated by the use of a Gold Star on the ribbon: 1) Southeast Asia. From 01Mar61 to 15Aug73.