[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1487 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1487

To require the Secretary of the Army to award the Combat Medical Badge 
    or another combat badge for Army helicopter medical evacuation 
                 ambulance (Medevac) pilots and crews.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 29 (legislative day, July 21), 2003

  Mr. Specter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of the Army to award the Combat Medical Badge 
    or another combat badge for Army helicopter medical evacuation 
                 ambulance (Medevac) pilots and crews.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AWARD OF COMBAT MEDICAL BADGE (CMB) OR OTHER COMBAT BADGE 
              FOR ARMY HELICOPTER MEDICAL EVACUATION AMBULANCE 
              (MEDEVAC) PILOTS AND CREWS.

    (a) Requirement To Elect and Award Combat Badge.--The Secretary of 
the Army shall, at the election of the Secretary--
            (1) award the Combat Medical Badge (CMB) to each member of 
        a helicopter medical evacuation ambulance crew; or
            (2)(A) establish a badge of appropriate design, to be known 
        as the Combat Medevac Badge; and
            (B) award that badge to each member of a helicopter medical 
        evacuation ambulance crew who meets such requirements for 
        eligibility for the award of that badge as the Secretary shall 
        prescribe.
    (b) Award for Service Before Date of Enactment.--In the case of 
persons who qualified for treatment as a member of a helicopter medical 
evacuation ambulance crew by reason of service during the period 
beginning on June 25, 1950, and ending on the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary shall award a badge under subsection (a) to each 
such person with respect to whom an application for the award of such 
badge is made to the Secretary after such date in such manner as the 
Secretary may require.
    (c) Member of Helicopter Medical Evacuation Ambulance Crew 
Defined.--In this section, the term ``member of a helicopter medical 
evacuation ambulance crew'' means any person who while a member of the 
Army served in combat on or after June 25, 1950, as a pilot or crew 
member of a helicopter medical evacuation ambulance.
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