Talk:Citation Star

Service devices
Silver Star (or Citation Star?): Act of Congress, July 9, 1918 (Bulletin No. 43, War Dept. 1918): Example of a General Orders document showing individuals cited for gallantry in action (units were also cited)... "a silver star may be placed on a ribbon of the Victory Medal awarded". Example from an actual Citation (Certificate): '''CITATION (top) Colonel _____________ For Distinguished and Exceptional Gallantry at _________ For Operations of the American Expeditionary Forces, In Testimony Thereof and in Expression of Appreciation of His Valor, I Award Him This Citation. Awarded on ___ .... |S| General _____, USMC.''' No official mention I could find of a "citation star"/ "award star"/ "award device" or that the 3/16" silver star is, "awarded", or is, "awarded for...". Evidently the, 3/16" "silver star" (mentioned in article in the official 1926 reference) was named (?) a "Citation Star" sometime between 1926 and 1932 (Silver Star Medal established). There were no silver service stars in WW1. DoD Awards Manual 1348.33 V3, Nov. 23, 2010 (includes "Silver Star Medal"): Page 1 (2), "service devices" (Page 7: "V" device, arrowhead device, service stars, 5/16 inch stars, oak leaf clusters, ...) Page 16 (2), "Subsequent award devices" (oak leaf cluster, 5/16 inch star, Arabic Numeral) I could find no official mention in any current military service manual of an "award device" or "service device". — Preceding unsigned comment added by YahwehSaves (talk • contribs) 07:11, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The current DoD manual is not likely to cover the usage of a deprecated award device. In viewing the Unites States Army Institute of Heraldry website they use Citation Star: .  Their usage is good enough for me to keep the name as it is.  Cheers.  EricSerge (talk) 15:31, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Silver Citation Star
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Silver Citation Star's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "DoD1348.33v3": From 5/16 inch star:  From Silver Star:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 01:23, 19 May 2017 (UTC)