Awards Home & News | Quick Nomination Form | District 13 & National Awards Listings
Going Solo: How to Write an Award | District 13 Awards Stats

Auxiliary Achievement Medal (AAM)

A.6. Auxiliary Achievement Medal

The Auxiliary Achievement Medal is given to Auxiliarists in recognition of individual sustained professional and/or leadership achievements in administration or operations. The Auxiliary Achievement Medal may be awarded by any Coast Guard Commanding Officer LCDR (0-4 and above) of an operational unit or serving as a DVC or higher at a District office, MLC, HQ or Director.

A.6.a. Eligibility Criteria

This award recognizes outstanding achievement or service of a nature which is worthy of special recognition as described below.

The key words for the Auxiliary Achievement Award are sustained professional, leadership achievements and period of time. The Auxiliary Achievement Award is for recognition of members who have maintained an outstanding level of performance and/or achievement over a period of time to further authorized activities of the Auxiliary. The achievements could be in administration or operations.

A.6.b. Award Elements

This award consists of a ribbon, miniature medal, and certificate. For achievement in operations (defined as direct hands on, underway, surface or airborne aviation mission activity), members may wear the operational “O” attachment centered on the ribbon or the medal’s suspension ribbon. Subsequent awards are signified by ⁵/₁₆-inch gold or silver stars as appropriate.

D13 AWT AAM Comments:

This award is superior to the ACLOC (ALC) award and as such its criteria are more demanding.

As defined above, the key here is sustained service.

This award, as all others, is for outstanding performance. So just doing your job as you agreed to do, will not suffice. This award looks for those members who take the Auxiliary job description and then go well beyond the minimal job description over a sustained time period.

This can be in any area and either working with the USCG or with the Auxiliary.

This award can be initiated by any Auxiliarist for any member. It can also be initiated by USCG as described in the criteria above.

As I write this, I can think of about 10 members in my division who easily fit these award criteria. I’ll bet that you can also think of many Auxiliarists that qualify for this award. There is no reason we cannot award 50 or more of these across D13 in a calendar year where appropriate.

This is the award that says “Thank You” to those Auxiliarists who work over long periods of time (a year or more) in the background doing exceptional stuff.

Some examples that I can think of:

The members that work regularly at USCG facilities doing extraordinary efforts to support those USCG departments.
The members who patrol weekly, without fail, month after month (sustained over a year).
The IS officer who not only reliably enters the unit data but provides summaries for the unit, provides custom reports to leaders on demand, actively promotes reporting and mentors all members about IS throughout a full year.
Staff officers who work at a constant higher level of performance than others throughout their tenure in office.

This award can also be “O” (operations) oriented but it does not have to be about operations.

This award can be awarded for work done for the USCG and can be approved by local USCG commanders as described above.

“Chain of Leadership” issues. You may choose to work this award through your normal chain or send your recommendations directly to the D13 AWT at awt@d13cgaux.org.. In any case we recommended that you keep your immediate chain informed using a CC. All awards nominations will end up with the AWT at awt@d13cgaux.org no matter what the source. It always helps an award nomination if the award nomination is endorsed by the nominee’s chain, but that is not required.

This award can be approved by DIRAUX. It does not have to go all the way through the formal USCG awards process. So successful awards can be processed quickly.

* NOTICE/DISCLAIMER: Links to non-Coast Guard entities are not under the control of the United States Coast Guard or the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, and are provided for the convenience of our customers. They do not, in any way, constitute an endorsement of the linked pages or any commercial or private issues or products presented there. We cannot make any warranty or representation concerning the content of these sites, or secondary sites from the pages to which they link. PRIVACY POLICY: This Web Site does not collect information from or about users of its web site through the use of 'cookies' etc. Email links are provided as a means to contact USCG Auxiliary members for additional information or to make comments. The senders return email address will be used to respond to comments and questions and may be made available to other members of the Auxiliary only for the same purpose.

Links to AWT Web Banners

Thank you for visiting District 13's Awards Team Website

Please send concerns to the webmaster.