UNIFORM REGULATIONS - U.S. Coast Guard

When In: Wear: How:
Dinner Dress
Formal Dress
Miniature medals
- Those
possessing five or
more must wear a
minimum of five.
Personnel with
five or less must
wear all
authorized.
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COMDTINST M1020.6G
Mounted on a single medal bar assembly with the
appropriate number of rows. May be
professionally block mounted.
The top of the holding bar is positioned 3 inches
below the lapel notch and centered on lapel, when
worn on the men’s Formal Dress and Dinner Dress
Jackets.
Centered immediately above the left chest pocket
flap when worn on the blue or white (officers
only) Service Dress Coats.
When worn on the women’s Formal Dress or
Dinner Dress Jacket uniforms, the holding bar is
worn in the same relative position as on the white
service coat.
By precedence from top down, and from the
wearer's right (inboard) to left (outboard).
Each row of miniatures will be 2 1/4 inches long
from the top of the ribbons to bottom of the
medals so that the bottoms of medals dress in a
horizontal line. Upper rows of medals will be
mounted so the medals cover the suspension
ribbons of the medals below. Up to five miniature
medals in a row may be worn. Overlap is not
authorized. When five or fewer medals are worn,
they will be worn in a single row without
overlapping. When six or more are worn they will
follow the description in Section 3.G.2.
Civilian Clothing Miniature medals. With civilian evening dress (white tie) wear in the
same manner as prescribed for Formal Dress uniform
and with civilian dinner dress (black tie) in the same
Nonmilitary
Uniforms
Miniature ribbon
replicas made as
lapel pins, or
ribbons in rosette
form.
Medals and
Ribbons.
manner as prescribed for Dinner Dress uniforms.
On the left lapel of civilian clothes except civilian
evening dress (white tie), and civilian dinner dress
(black tie) as noted above.
Per organization’s uniform rules.