---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1136"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1136"
heading: "Honorable service requirement for award of military decorations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1136"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 57 — Decorations and Awards"
---

# §1136. Honorable service requirement for award of military decorations


No [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) decoration, including a medal, cross, or bar, or an associated emblem or insignia, may be awarded or presented to any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2), or to a representative of the [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2), if the service of the [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) after the [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) distinguished himself or herself has not been honorable.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title V, § 582(a)(1), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1411.)