The Legion of Merit (LOM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces that is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements. The decoration is issued to members of the eight uniformed services of the United States as well as to military and political figures of foreign governments.
The National Order of the Legion of Honour, formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour, is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, it has been retained by all later French governments and regimes.
Several countries award a military or civil medal called Medal of Merit:
Order of Military Merit may refer to:
An order of merit is an honorific order that is conferred by a state, government, royal family, or other sovereign entity to an individual in recognition of military or civil merit. The historical background of the modern honours system of orders of merit may be traced to the emergence of chivalric orders during the Middle Ages.
Gold Cross or Golden Cross may refer to:
Order of Saint John or Knights Hospitaller is a chivalric order of the Crusades and early modern period, after 1530 also known as "Knights of Malta"
The National Decorations System of Romania is divided into six categories, listed below. It was re-established in 1998 after a 50-year period in which Romania used a Soviet-style system of decorations. It is very similar to the system used in Romania during the interwar period.
Military Merit Cross is the name for a military decoration in various states, including:
Orders, decorations, and medals of the German Empire covers those decorations awarded by the states which came together under Prussian leadership to form the German Empire in 1871. For convenience's sake, this category also covers the decorations of the various German states which were no longer in existence in 1871, mainly because they had been annexed by Prussia during the Wars of Unification or before.
A Cross of Merit is a personal decoration which is generally above the rank of medal and below that of knight, and may refer to:
Military Merit Medal or Medal of Military Merit may refer to:
Order of the Sun may refer to:
This is a list of some of the modern orders, decorations and medals of Spain.
Order of Naval Merit may refer to:
Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:
Military order may refer to:
Military Merit Order may refer to:
The Order of Civil Merit is an award for service to Spain.
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