NOTICE This Display Recognition is available ONLY to authorized recipients who possess orders, or authorization form, or release documentation that confirms award eligibility. (See "Issue Requirements"). To obtain either a Display Medal or a Display Recognition for your authorized award you will be required to provide military-issued documentation authorizing your award. There are no exceptions. WARNING! You must NOT submit a military issued document or photocopy that: has been altered in any way by you after the original's official issue contains information or corrections or additions that you entered lists awards or training you knowingly did not receive contains highlighting, colorizing or other markings you entered Be advised that on request any knowingly fraudulent document sent by you will be released to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that may result in prosecution and/or fine/imprisonment. Email Questions, or Phone: 1-562-422-4100 (Pacific Time Zone)

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How to Apply

You may apply for your Display Recognition using a...

Check Debit card (* Shipped within 1 week)

Charge card (* Shipped within 1 week)

Personal, Business, Bank or Cashiers Check ( Shipped in 6 weeks)

Money Order (* Shipped in 6 weeks)

(* Upon reception of required documentation)

Complete and MAIL this APPLICATION FORM.
Don't forget to include an unaltered COPY of your DD-214 or other pre-arranged document(s).

DISPLAY RECOGNITION and/or MEDAL APPLICATION FORM

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Issue Regulations
Operation Eagle Claw

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Authorized to all Active and Activated military personnel For Deterrent Service During the Operation Period. Operation Eagle Claw, also codenamed Operation Evening Light, was activated on 24 April 1980 as a combined Service Branch effort to free fifty-two American and Allied hostages taken against their will in one of the most glaringly illegal international acts, that of Violating the sovereign soil designated as a foreign Embassy. This Operation, if successful, would have put almost the entire city of Tehran to sleep using a suppression aerosol enabling the rescuers to simply walk in and collect the hostages with zero anticipated casualties among friend or foe. Your Service During this Emergency Operation was Highly Valued in Discouraging Aggression from other Global Sources.

Participating units directly involved:

USS Nimitz (CVN-68), Marine Detachment and Battle Group (USS California (CGN-36), USS South Carolina (CGN-37) and USS Texas (CGN-39))

USS Coral Sea (CV-43), Marine Detachment and Battle Group

1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Delta Force), including mission commander Col. Charlie Beckwith and subsequent notables Maj. Peter Schoomaker (later Army Chief of Staff), Maj. William G. Boykin (later Lt. Gen.), and MSG Eric L. Haney (later Command Sergeant Major and author of Inside Delta Force)

75th Ranger Regiment

United States Army Special Forces

USS Okinawa (LPH-3), 31st M.E.U., 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, and HMM-165 (see numerous Navy and Marine Corps deployment reports)

USAF 1st Special Operations Wing, 8th and 16th Special Operations Squadrons (AC-130/MC-130), USAF RED HORSE units, and numerous support organizations

USAF Brand X (Early US Air Force Special Operations Command Combat Control Team)

USAF 1st Combat Communication Group

Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron FOURTEEN (RH-53D Sea Stallions)

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