How to Wear Military Ribbons

Submit Your Tip

How to Wear Military Ribbons – This is a place for the community to provide tips and advice on How to Wear Military Ribbons. This topic was created by Brad Gammell and the tips are provided by the community. The tips you add here can be your own or referred from another site. The best tips are then ranked at the top when up-voted by members of the community.

Tip 1 - How to Correctly Wear Military Ribbons in Order | eHow

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by E Padmanabhan | permalink

Military ribbons are awarded to service members for accomplishments during service. Overseas campaign medals, unit citations and awards are worn as ribbons on military dress uniforms; these ribbons are placed on a ribbon rack and worn in a specific order according to each branch's uniform regulations. Some ribbons, like the Army Commendation...

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/how_8231327_correctly-wear-military-ribbons-order.html ^[1]

Tip 2 - Uniform Wear by Retirees and Veterans

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Lois Thomson - Bowersock | permalink

Beginning with Veterans Day 2006, the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) encourages all military veterans to wear their medals and decorations during Veterans Day (November 11th) and other patriotic holidays (such as Independence Day - July 4th, and Memorial Day - May 30th).

For further reading: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/a/medalwear.htm ^[2]