A Sea Service Ribbon is an award of the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Coast Guard, and the United States Army which recognizes those service members who have performed military duty while stationed on a vessel at sea.
Additional awards of the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, Naval Reserve Sea Service Ribbon, Coast Guard Sea Service Ribbon and the Army Sea Duty Ribbon are denoted by bronze service stars on the ribbon. For the Army Sea Duty Ribbon, the tenth and final award is annotated by a gold award star.
Read more about Sea Service Ribbon: Army Sea Duty Ribbon, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, Navy Reserve Sea Service Ribbon, Coast Guard Sea Service Ribbon
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“The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;—”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.”
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“I’ll tell you how the Sun rose—
A Ribbon at a time—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)