U.S. Code, Title 10, Armed Forces

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Author: "U.S. Congress, Office of the Law Revision Counsel"

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§ 6249. Limitation of Honorable Service

     No medal, cross, or bar, or associated emblem or insignia may be awarded or presented to any person or to his representative if his service after he distinguished himself has not been honorable.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 390.)

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6249      34 U.S.C. 362.      Feb. 4, 1919, ch. 14, § 8 (1st proviso), 40 Stat. 1057; renumbered § 10 and amended Aug. 7, 1942, ch. 551, § 1, 56 Stat. 745.

     34 U.S.C. 364a (last 31 words of 3d sentence).      July 2, 1926, ch. 721, § 12 (last 31 words of 3d sentence), 44 Stat. 789, July 30, 1937, ch. 545, § 4, 50 Stat. 549.

     The word "associated" is substituted for the word "other" to relate the medal or cross to its emblem or insignia. The word "entire" is omitted as surplusage.

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Chicago: "U.S. Congress, Office of the Law Revision Counsel", "§ 6249. Limitation of Honorable Service," U.S. Code, Title 10, Armed Forces in U.S. Code, Title 10, Armed Forces (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2002), Original Sources, accessed April 25, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5AUL6LV6YW958PC.

MLA: "U.S. Congress, Office of the Law Revision Counsel". "§ 6249. Limitation of Honorable Service." U.S. Code, Title 10, Armed Forces, in U.S. Code, Title 10, Armed Forces, Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 2002, Original Sources. 25 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5AUL6LV6YW958PC.

Harvard: "U.S. Congress, Office of the Law Revision Counsel", '§ 6249. Limitation of Honorable Service' in U.S. Code, Title 10, Armed Forces. cited in 2002, U.S. Code, Title 10, Armed Forces, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.. Original Sources, retrieved 25 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5AUL6LV6YW958PC.