One Silver Star
Four Bronze Stars
World War II
Solomon Islands--1942
Peleliu, Ngesebus--1944
Okinawa--1945
Korea
7 August - 7 September 1950
15 September - 11 October 1950
27 November - 11 December 1950
21-26 April 1951
16 May - 30 June 1951
11 - 25 September 1951
Vietnam
27 May 1966 - 24 April 1967
25 April - 5 June 1967
6 June - 15 September 1967
16 September 1967 - 10 February 1968
3 May - 22 June 1968
24 July - 31 October 1968
Korea
11 August 1952 - 5 May 1953
7 - 21 July 1953
Vietnam
25 July - 23 October 1968
[Editor's note] I want to thank Sergeant Major Maurice J. Jacques, USMC (Ret.), and Major Bruce H. Norton, USMC (Ret.), for the list of regimental awards found in their book entitled Sergeant Major, U. S. Marines: The Biography of Sergeant Major Maurice J. Jacques, USMC, New York, Ivy Books, 1995.
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