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Decoration Examples

 Air Force Achievement Medal (AFAM) Citation

Outstanding Achievement

AFI 36-2803 Para 5.1









Key Points to Writing
  • PCS/PCA Decorations will be based on EPRs/OPRs
  • Achievement Decorations read like awards, and will need a narrative for justification
  • DO NOT plan on making up mid-tour points in a PCS medal
  • Ask for HELP, the only person looking out for #1 is you
  • The only person looking out for your Airman is YOU!
  • ASK for/WRITE a Mid Tour decoration 
  • WRITE!!! The more you do it, the better you get
  • Use F7 to spell check. Errors reflect badly on you and your subordinate!

The following Air Force Achievement Medal (AFAM) for outstanding achievement example has been taken from a Word Doc.  If needed some location and mission information has been changed to protect myself and the people I have received the package from.  If possible, a little insight will be given if it has been related.

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Copied from MS Word:

STAFF SERGEANT <FNAME> <MI> <LNAME>



OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT
11 SEPTEMBER 2001 TO 30 NOVEMBER 2001


Staff Sergeant <FNAME> <MI> <LNAME> distinguished himself by outstanding achievement as Deployable Transit-cased System Administrator, ##th Intelligence Squadron, ###th Intelligence Group <NAME> Air Force Base, <STATE>. During this period, Sergeant <LNAME> was key to the preparation of four deployable transit-cased systems for deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. In the hours after the terrorist attack, Sergeant <LNAME> led six people in a marathon effort to prepare packing and load lists for National satellite and RQ-1B Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Deployable Transit-cased Imagery Exploitation Systems. His acute attention to detail allowed the team to verify 142 packing and load lists were error-free; thereby ensuring all cargo could be shipped without delay. He then worked 16 hours straight to create 34 packing and load lists to prepare the U-2 Front End Processor for short notice deployment. Sergeant <LNAME> helped ensure success of the RQ-4 Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’s first combat mission by updating 56 packing and load lists allowing timely deployment of a Deployable Transit-cased System to exploit the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance imagery. Sergeant <LNAME> expertise and unselfish work ethic ensured Distributed Ground Station-? had the tools in the right place and time to exploit and provide lifesaving, war-ending intelligence to the warfighter.
 

6 JUNE 2002



Comment:

  There is part of a series.  The most important item for a supervisor to understand is following up awards!  This one was "lost" in a drawer at the group level.  Once it was found, the boss refused to endorse it because it took place 12 months after the fact.  the other issue focused on the squadron CC being new and unaware of the achievement.  The second thing to remember, get the award in before the CC leaves, otherwise it will get shot down!


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