1SG Private RallyPoint Member 8786032 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Sorry if this sounds dumb, but no one seems to know... <br />If you have a spent 15 total years overseas (4.5 combat deployment years and the rest OCONUS... Keeping in mind that combat deployment years also count as overseas years now)...<br />How do you wear the numeral &quot;15&quot; on your Overseas Ribbon... Since the number stops at 9. Do you wear two separate numbers (1 and 5)? 2024-06-16T19:25:40-04:00 1SG Private RallyPoint Member 8786032

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Sorry if this sounds dumb, but no one seems to know... <br />If you have a spent 15 total years overseas (4.5 combat deployment years and the rest OCONUS... Keeping in mind that combat deployment years also count as overseas years now)...<br />How do you wear the numeral &quot;15&quot; on your Overseas Ribbon... Since the number stops at 9. Do you wear two separate numbers (1 and 5)?

2024-06-16T19:25:40-04:00 2024-06-16T19:25:40-04:00 MSG Gary Eckert 8786135

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Unless things have changed the numbers represent completed tours not years overseas. I guess it is possible but unlikely that you have 14 completed short tours.

2024-06-16T21:03:06-04:00 2024-06-16T21:03:06-04:00 COL Randall C. 8786306

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The numeral on the OSR indicates the number of total awards of the OSR, not the length of time you&#39;ve spent overseas (AR 600-8-22*, para 5-4e / para 6-4).<br /><br />Regarding combat deployment years counting as overseas years - yes insofar as the prohibition on the OSR being awarded if there was a campaign or service medal given for that timeframe has been rescinded. Now you can &quot;double-dip&quot; the deployment time, but you still need to meet the eligibility for a completed overseas tour (AR 614-30*, Para 3-3) in order to be awarded the OSR for the deployment.<br /><br />For example, if you deployed in support of OEF three times, for eight months each and with a year and a half between the deployments (i.e,. 8 months deployed, 1.5 years home, 8 month deployed, etc.), you would have two years total (24 months) deployed time, but would not receive an oversea tour credit because the requirement in that country/AOR is a minimum of 11 cumulative months within a 24 month period or 9 continuous months*.<br />-----------------------------<br />* AR 600-8-22 (Military Awards) - <a target="_blank" href="https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN30935-AR_600-8-22-000-WEB-1.pdf">https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN30935-AR_600-8-22-000-WEB-1.pdf</a><br />* AR 614-30 (Overseas Service) - <a target="_blank" href="https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN6427_AR614-30_WEB_Final.pdf">https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN6427_AR614-30_WEB_Final.pdf</a><br />* Tour credit Afghanistan example - AR 614-30, Table 3-2, rules 6 and 8. <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN30935-AR_600-8-22-000-WEB-1.pdf">ARN30935-AR_600-8-22-000-WEB-1.pdf</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description"></p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div>

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