Question
How do you determine precedence for a new state award?
We created a new state Military Funeral Honors Ribbon and I cannot find how to determine it's precedence.
I am at G1 and supposed to determine the precedence of our new award.
Answer 1
Sounds ultimately like a State Adjutant General query using your State's Chain of Command, as appropriate.
Answer 2
Para 22-4, AR 670-1 provides the order of precedence by category of medal, and lists State awards for ARNG Soldiers as last precedence. If you only have one State award, then it's easy. If you have more than one, my guess is the precedence would be in order of when they were awarded by date, but that is just a guess. I would agree with Mr. Reichner that, for precedence within the State or ARNG, that you would need to contact your state.
Answer 3
If the State created the award, they will decide precedence. Contact your State G1's office. They will be able to provide you the information you need.
Answer 4
If you are talking about how, in general, DoD determines the precedence for service ribbons, which this sounds like, in the order in which they are created. So, for example, the Army Service Ribbon comes before the Army Overseas service Ribbon because it was created first. And the Afghanistan Campaign Medal comes before the Iraq Campaign Medal because the fighting in Afghanistan started there first.
That's the simplest way to handle it. And it's easy. Last created award goes on the bottom.
Now, the other way to approach it is to look at the current service ribbons, determine how important Funeral Service details are compared to the other state service awards you already have, and place it in relative order based on where you think it falls out, to send a message to the Soldiers and Airmen of the Wisconsin National Guard on the relative value of serving on funeral details. Is it more or less important than the WI National Guard recruiting ribbon, or the Emergency Service Ribbon? That's a decision that the WI Guard's senior leadership would have to make, based on the requirements of each individual award.
But in the end, it's the State Adjutant General who has the final say.
Wisconsin National Guard Military Ribbons (officialmilitaryribbons.com)
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