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)#Notable_recipients 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)

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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)