Presidential Unit Citation

The Presidential Unit Citation is an award granted to military units which have performed an extremely meritorious or heroic act, usually in battle, against the face of an armed enemy. Several countries bestow awards which are referred to as the "Presidential Unit Citation", including the following:

  • American Presidential Unit Citation
  • Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation
  • South Korean Presidential Unit Citation
  • South Vietnamese Presidential Unit Citation

Famous quotes containing the words presidential and/or unit:

    Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request—it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.
    Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I ... [urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enacting that all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner’s jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)