Awards and Citations
In the episodes "Model Behavior" and "Murder 2.0", Gibbs is awarded the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award (example shown at right, top). At the end of the episode "Murder 2.0", he was awarded his 7th Defense Meritorious Service Medal (example shown at right, bottom), but like the other six times, he did not attend the award ceremony, at which Tony accepts the medal on his behalf. When Gibbs shows no interest in it, Tony locks it in a box containing several similar presentation cases, all of which, as mentioned in the same episode by Tony, contain similar kinds of medals awarded to Gibbs. One of these medals is revealed to have been a Silver Star, which Gibbs bestows on Corporal Damon Werth in the episode "Corporal Punishment". It is revealed in the episode "Hiatus Pt. 1" that Gibbs received the Purple Heart while serving in Operation Desert Storm and was in a coma for nineteen days.
When Gibbs has appeared on-screen in his Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant's uniform, he has worn the following awards and decorations (in order of precedence):
- Scuba Diver Insignia
- Marine Corps Parachutist Insignia
- Silver Star
- Purple Heart
- Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with two award stars
- Combat Action Ribbon
- Navy Unit Commendation
- Meritorious Unit Commendation with one service star
- Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal with one silver service star in lieu of 5 bronze service star
- Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal
- National Defense Service Medal with one service star
- Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
- Southwest Asia Service Medal
- Humanitarian Service Medal
- Sea Service Deployment Ribbon with three service stars
- Overseas Service Ribbon with one service star
- United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization (UNTSO) Medal
- Saudi Arabian Liberation of Kuwait Medal
- Kuwaiti Liberation of Kuwait Medal
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