32 C.F.R. § 578.7 Peacetime criteria.
Title 32 - National Defense
Peacetime criteria, by whom awarded. Awards for peacetime service are made by the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of the Army. When peacetime criteria apply, authority to award decorations is automatically delegated as shown in Table 3 below.
Title 32: National Defense
PART 578—DECORATIONS, MEDALS, RIBBONS, AND SIMILAR DEVICES
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§ 578.7 Peacetime criteria.
Table 3------------------------------------------------------------------------ Delegation of award approving authority-peacetime criteria------------------------------------------------------------------------- Commanders and principal HQDA agency officials May award To------------------------------------------------------------------------Chief of Staff, U.S. Army..... DSM and all less All U.S. Army decorations. personnel and personnel of other Services (see note 2).General....................... LM, MSM, ARCOM, 1. U.S. Army and AAM. personnel. 2. U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force Personnel below brigadier general attached to their organizations (see note 2).Lieutenant General............ LM............... 1. U.S. Army personnel upon retirement or for posthumous awards only (except general grade officers). MSM, ARCOM, and 2. U.S. Army AAM. personnel assigned and attached for duty to their command or agency. 3. U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force Personnel below brigadier general attached to their organizations (see note 2).Major General................. LM (see note 1).. 1. U.S. Army personnel assigned and attached for duty to their command or agency. MSM, ARCOM, and 2. U.S. Navy, Marine AAM. Corps, and Air Force Personnel below brigadier general attached to their organizations (see note 2).Brigadier General............. MSM, ARCOM, and 1. U.S. Army AAM. personnel assigned and attached for duty to their command or agency. 2. U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force Personnel below brigadier general attached to their organizations (see note 2).Colonel....................... ARCOM, AAM....... 1. U.S. Army personnel assigned and attached for duty to their command or agency. 2. U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force Personnel below brigadier general attached to their organizations (see note 2).Lieutenant Colonel............ AAM.............. 1. U.S. Army personnel assigned and attached for duty to their command. 2. U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force Personnel below brigadier general attached to their organizations (see note 2).------------------------------------------------------------------------
Table 3_Continued------------------------------------------------------------------------ Delegation of award approving authority-peacetime criteria------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Managers Program Managers, Product Managers, May award Toand Program Executive Officers------------------------------------------------------------------------Major Generals and civilian MSM, ARCOM and Service members equivalent Senior Executive AAM. assigned to their Service (SES). projects (see note 2).Brigadier Generals and MSM, ARCOM and Service members civilian equivalent SES. AAM. assigned to their projects (see note 2).Colonels and civilian ARCOM and AAM.... Service members equivalent General Schedule assigned to their (GS) 15. projects (see note 2).Lieutenant Colonels........... AAM.............. Service members assigned to their projects (see note 2).------------------------------------------------------------------------Notes:1. Major Army commanders and officials of principal HQDA agencies in the grade of Major General have authority to approve awards of the Legion of Merit, to retiring and deceased persons, other than general officers, assigned to their commands or agencies.2. See paragraph 1-36, AR 600-8-22 for instructions on awarding Army decorations to members of the other U.S. Services.
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