Can anyone point me to permanent orders concerning unit awards for HHC 1-110, and 2-28 BCT for OIF in 2005-06?

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:30:07 -0500

I was part of the Kentucky Heavy mortars platoon in Habbaniyah. Once we redeployed to CONUS, I transferred states to Indiana, and missed out on getting some of the award documentation. I would really like to get it added to my record. Any assistance would be very much appreciated.

Response by MSG Sean Hendricks made Mar 7 at 2014 2:34 PM

MSG Sean Hendricks — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:34:34 -0500

Institute of Heraldry should have everything you need. I am looking for the web link. Standby...

Response by MSG Sean Hendricks made Mar 7 at 2014 2:42 PM

MSG Sean Hendricks — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:42:07 -0500

SSG Garrett,

This is where you start your search.

http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/

Good Luck...

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Response by MSG Sean Hendricks made Mar 7 at 2014 3:53 PM

MSG Sean Hendricks — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:53:36 -0500

Roger That, the HRC link below should be a better mechanism to find the Unit Award data you are looking for. Copy and Paste into the address bar

https://g1arng.army.pentagon.mil/pages/DisplayAnnouncement.aspx?AnnouncementID=273

Hooah...

Response by SGT James Elphick made Mar 7 at 2014 4:46 PM

SGT James Elphick — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:46:33 -0500

If you know what year the orders for the award were given you can find them here:

http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/wotawards.html

It will take some searching but the orders are there

War on Terrorism Unit Awards

Due to limited resources we are currently only posting recently approved valor decorations (PUCs and VUAs). All orders will eventually be posted at a future date.

Response by SSG Alexander Hoffman made Mar 7 at 2014 4:55 PM

SSG Alexander Hoffman — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:55:13 -0500

https://www.hrc.army.mil/TAGD/Unit%20Awards has excel spreadsheets with ALL approved unit awards, both GWOT and before, with links to the actual PDF's of the award. A cursory glance didn't turn up anything for those units during that time frame, but you should look too just to make sure.

Response by SFC(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 7 at 2014 6:44 PM

SFC(P) Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:44:36 -0500

SSG Garrett, we are required to keep the records on file for awards for a certain amount of time, have you contacted the unit that you deployed with? You will need a copy of your MOB orders and your DD 214 which should be in your iPERMS/OMPF file. I just worked awards from a deployment that had individuals that had transferred to a different unit and/or state even some that had retired. If they do not have access to those records go through your S-1 to have them help you get the records to process these for you or help you get them from the state you transferred from. Good Luck and best wishes in your endeavor.

Response by LTC Jason Mackay made Mar 7 at 2014 11:03 PM

LTC Jason Mackay — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:03:51 -0500

You will need the UIC of the unit you were assigned to and search the data base. Multiple links are in https://www.hrc.army.mil/TAGD/Unit%20Awards. Sometimes there is a higher unit issued the citation. It is important for you to identify your unit specifically in the award citation units listing for that particular award. Little known fact. You can't be attached in CENTCOM. You are OPCON to Centcom and they can only OPCON your unit to another. This has little effect in your daily life, but gets dicey for unit award purposes.

Once you identify the specific unit citation for that period and unit, you will need documents showing you assigned to the unit, at the time it was awarded. TCS orders, ERBs, NCOERs all support this. Your personnel center can take this and annotate it in your ERB.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 8 at 2014 9:43 AM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 09:43:13 -0500

Thank you all for all of the help. I've been able to locate the paperwork for our Navy Unit Commendation. It would appear that without our UICs and those of the unitS we were atttached to, I may be out of luck in further search. I'll contact State PAO offices for further assistance on any State level awards. Thank you once again.