---
kind: "unit"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
key: "stA/ptII/ch57"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 57"
heading: "Decorations and Awards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/stA-ptII-ch57"
sections_count: 19
---

# Chapter 57 — Decorations and Awards

Title 10 — Armed Forces › Subtitle A — General Military Law › Part II — Personnel

## Sections

- [§1121. Legion of Merit: award](/usc/10/1121.md)
- [§1122. Medal for Merit: award](/usc/10/1122.md)
- [§1123. Right to wear badges of military societies](/usc/10/1123.md)
- [§1124. Cash awards for disclosures, suggestions, inventions, and scientific achievements](/usc/10/1124.md)
- [§1124a. Cyber operations-peculiar awards](/usc/10/1124a.md)
- [§1125. Recognition for accomplishments: award of trophies](/usc/10/1125.md)
- [§1126. Gold star lapel button: eligibility and distribution](/usc/10/1126.md)
- [§1127. Precedence of the award of the Purple Heart](/usc/10/1127.md)
- [§1128. Prisoner-of-war medal: issue](/usc/10/1128.md)
- [§1129. Purple Heart: members killed or wounded in action by friendly fire](/usc/10/1129.md)
- [§1129a. Purple Heart: members killed or wounded in attacks by foreign terrorist organizations](/usc/10/1129a.md)
- [§1130. Consideration of proposals for decorations not previously submitted in timely fashion: procedures for review](/usc/10/1130.md)
- [§1131. Purple Heart: limitation to members of the armed forces](/usc/10/1131.md)
- [§1132. Presentation of decorations: prohibition on entering correctional facilities for presentation to prisoners convicted of serious violent felonies](/usc/10/1132.md)
- [§1133. Bronze Star: limitation on persons eligible to receive](/usc/10/1133.md)
- [§1134. Medal of honor: award to individual interred in Tomb of the Unknowns as representative of casualties of a war](/usc/10/1134.md)
- [§1134a. Medal of honor: Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard Medal of Honor Roll](/usc/10/1134a.md)
- [§1135. Replacement of military decorations](/usc/10/1135.md)
- [§1136. Honorable service requirement for award of military decorations](/usc/10/1136.md)