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Arrowhead Device

The Arrowhead device is a decoration of the United States Army which is issued as an attachment to certain service medals. The Arrowhead device is awarded to any service member who participates in an amphibious assault, a combat parachute drop, a helicopter assault landing, or a combat glider attack.


The arrowhead device is a one time decoration for each service medal and no more than one arrowhead device may be authorized per service medal. As of 2004, the service medals which are authorized the arrowhead device are as follows:

In almost all cases, the arrowhead device is issued with a corresponding campaign service star, which denotes the campaign in which the assault landing was accomplished.


See also: Awards and decorations of the United States military




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Arrowhead device - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (166 words)
The Arrowhead device is a decoration of the United States Army which is issued as an attachment to certain service medals.
The Arrowhead device is awarded to any service member who participates in an amphibious assault, a combat parachute drop, a helicopter assault landing, or a combat glider attack.
In almost all cases, the arrowhead device is issued with a corresponding campaign service star, which denotes the campaign in which the assault landing was accomplished.
Archery arrowhead puller device - Patent 5102100 (2074 words)
The improved device of claim 1 wherein the lower end of said puller arm is tapered down to facilitate pulling of buried arrowheads.
The device further includes a puller arm rearward of the brace arm and similarly hinged to the bar, depending therefrom and bearing at its lower end a threaded space adapted to threadably receive the threaded rear end of an arrowhead connector typically used with broadheads and field points.
Thus, device 10 is shown which comprises an elongated bar 12 of durable material such as steel, and a brace arm 14 of steel or the like, as well as a puller arm 16 of steel or the like.
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