Talk:Meritorious Service Medal (United States)

Anyone know how many of these are awarded each year?
Anyone know how many of these are awarded each year? 95.144.76.205 (talk) 23:09, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Here is a link on were you can find a general idea.

https://www.hrc.army.mil/TAGD/Awards%20and%20Decorations%20Statistics%20by%20Conflict

Articseahorse (talk) 02:13, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Notable recipients section
Is Meritorious_Service_Medal_(United_States) encyclopedic or worth keeping? Mainly the list serves to attract people who want to add their non-notable names to the listing. Those who are listed are notable for other achievements and medals. Instead of removing the non-notables, we'd be better off improving the actual article. (Depending upon the number of responses I get I may advertise this discussion on some project pages.) – S. Rich (talk) 04:59, 15 May 2014 (UTC) BTW, I was looking to see who is interested in this article via edit counts. I'm number one and a sock is number two. With this in mind, I'm even more inclined to remove the section. Reverting the non-notables is a lousy way to increase the count.00:09, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Dump it. I do not see it as being terribly encyclopedic, nor is it well referenced. We don't have a similar section for the Achievement or Commendation medals do we? EricSerge (talk) 16:14, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support removal. Basically, this list would wind up as a list of every flag officer in the US military who was promoted to major or lieutenant commander after 1969 and has a Wikipedia article.  --Lineagegeek (talk) 21:48, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Note: I have advertised this discussion on the Medals & MilHist Project talk pages. – S. Rich (talk) 18:43, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

No further responses. I'm removing the section. – S. Rich (talk) 18:26, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

The article says that the Navy normally awards the MSM to senior officers and enlisted - O5 and above, and E8/E9. An O2 (LTJG Craig Litty) and an E6 (HM1/SS James Akin) received the medal for their actions after USS San Francisco ran into the seamount in Jan 2005. That strikes me as being rather notable.... 73.186.162.89 (talk) 01:32, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

External links modified (January 2018)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Meritorious Service Medal (United States). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110722185231/http://doni.daps.dla.mil/Directives/01000%20Military%20Personnel%20Support/01-600%20Performance%20and%20Discipline%20Programs/1650.1H.PDF to http://doni.daps.dla.mil/Directives/01000%20Military%20Personnel%20Support/01-600%20Performance%20and%20Discipline%20Programs/1650.1H.PDF
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110616183254/http://www.afpc.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=7774 to http://www.afpc.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=7774

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 06:05, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Can I still add a Meritorious Service Medal recipient?
Hi there,

I’m new on Wikipedia, and only have one draft article about Brian E. Kinsella, who received the award.

Can I just add it, or is there a process?

Thank you so much for your help.

Mwikiforce Mwikiforce (talk) 06:56, 8 October 2023 (UTC)