Air and Space Organizational Excellence Award

Unit awardFormerly the Air Force Organizational Excellence Award · AFOEA

For unnumbered organizations and activities with outstanding achievement.

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How you get it

You can't apply for this one yourself. Your unit has to have received it, and you have to have been assigned or attached to the unit and present for duty during the cited period.

You qualify if any of these apply

Assigned or attached to, and present for duty with, an organization awarded the Organizational Excellence Award for the cited period

Devices

Valor "V" device: Your unit's award included the V (authorized only from Jan. 11, 1996 to Jan. 1, 2014)

Quick facts

Category: Unit awards
Type: Unit award
Authorized devices: Oak Leaf Cluster
WAPS points: 0
Position in the AFPC listing: 26 of 91 (listed in order of precedence)

Full AFPC fact sheet text

Background

The Secretary of the Air Force authorized this award on Aug. 26, 1969. The Air Force Organizational Excellence award recognizes the achievements and accomplishments of U.S. Air Force organizations or activities.

Criteria

It is awarded to Air Force internal organizations that are entities within larger organizations. They are unique, unnumbered organizations or activities that perform functions normally performed by numbered wings, groups, squadrons, etc.

Ribbon description

This award is a ribbon with a narrow blue center stripe, flanked by a thin white stripe, a wide red stripe, a thin white stripe, edged with a narrow blue stripe. Additional awards are annotated by an Oak Leaf Cluster.

Authorized devices

Oak Leaf Cluster

Source: Air and Space Organizational Excellence Award fact sheet, Air Force's Personnel Center