Noncommissioned Officer Medal

This medal was approved at the SAME Board Meeting in June 2006. The first award was presented at the SAME Joint Engineer Training Conference & Expo in May 2007.

The SAME Education and Mentoring Fund will provide a stipend of up to $1,000 to reimburse the NCO for expenses to attend the national conference.

Eligibility: Any Active, Reserve, National Guard or Retired Noncommissioned Officer who has been a member of The Society for at least one year prior to nomination.

Nomination Criteria:

1. Outstanding leadership and accomplishments in support of the Society Mission over the last calendar year.
2. Outstanding leadership and contributions to military engineering over the past five years.

Nomination Process:
Nominations for this award must be made by a Society member and endorsed by a Post President or member of the National Board of Direction, using the Society nomination form. The Post President or member of the National Board of Direction endorsing the nomination will verify that the individual meets the eligibility criteria for the award, and that the nomination package provides information to support each of the nomination criteria and all required information on the nominee. The nominator is responsible for ensuring the package, with endorsement, is received at SAME HQ on or before February 2.