Talk:5/16 inch star

message: May 20, 2008
The example of using the Award Star for subsequent Achievement medals is in direct contradiction to the Wikipedia Achievement Medal page, which indicates the use of Oak leaf Clusters for subsequent awards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achievement_Medal  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steveo1544 (talk • contribs) 21:45, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Answered over on the service star article. -Husnock 03:14, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
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message: This really needs to be fixed.  In everyday usage, the award devices are called "Gold stars" and "Silver Stars".  for instance, if I have 3 Navy Achievement Medals, I would say, "I have a NAM with 2 gold stars".  No one would walk around and say "I have a Navy Achievement Medal with 2 5/16 inch stars!"  I'm not sure what the exact rules are on Wiki about this, i.e. use of terminology as depicted in regulations versus common speech and language, but the way the articles reads now, it just doesn't look right. -OberRanks (talk) 21:07, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: OberRanks, I have to agree with you.  I think that WP:COMMONNAME would apply here, but finding a reliable source is the failing.  So that takes us back to the stilted language of a DoD manual, the only RS we know to use.  5/16 inch star seems obscure, so that begs the question what would you call these devices collectively, and is there a reliable source?  Being a Navy man you may be able to save us from ourselves by finding a good RS.  EricSerge (talk) 23:42, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

text: The sea services of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard use similar award devices to the Army and the Air Force with the exception that the sea services do NOT issue oak leaf clusters to denote multiple awards of a personal decoration (sea service members may still receive oak leaf clusters for defense department and cross service decorations from other branches of service).  In place of oak leaf clusters, the sea services issue gold and silver award stars. A gold star is issued for the award of a second decoration while a silver star replaces five gold (which occurs at the sixth award, eleventh, and so on).
I've seen numerous FOIA responses from the NPRC office which use this terminology.  I hope this may serve to provide at least one source for this. -OberRanks (talk) 17:25, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
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message: eeeer ...any chance we could get a section describing why these are awarded ..im finding the article is unclear on this point
Tony Spike (talk) 11:45, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
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