---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1127"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1127"
heading: "Precedence of the award of the Purple Heart"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1127"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 57 — Decorations and Awards"
---

# §1127. Precedence of the award of the Purple Heart


In prescribing regulations establishing the order of precedence of awards and decorations authorized to be displayed on the uniforms of members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned shall accord the Purple Heart a position of precedence, in relation to other awards and decorations authorized to be displayed, not lower than that immediately following the bronze star.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–525, title V, § 553(a), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2532; amended Pub. L. 99–145, title V, § 533, Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 634.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1985—Pub. L. 99–145 substituted “the bronze star” for “the lowest position accorded any award or decoration for valor”.