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{{Infobox military award
| name = Medal of Honor
| image = [[File:Tri-service medal of honor.jpg|350px]]
| caption = Medals of honor of the three military departments
| awarded_by = the [[president of the United Commonwealth]] in the name of the [[National Assembly of the United Commonwealth]]
| status = Currently awarded
| type = Military medal with neck ribbon<br />(decoration)
| eligibility = United Commonwealth Armed Forces service members 
| awarded_for = Conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty
| established = Naval Service: December 21, 1861<br />Army: July 12, 1862<br />Air Force: April 14, 1965
| first_award = March 25, 1863 {{small|(For service in the [[American Civil War]] to a U.S. Army Private {{W|Jacob Parrott}}.)}}
| last_award = March 3, 2023
| total = 3,221
| lower = Army: {{W|Distinguished Service Cross (United States)|Distinguished Service Cross}}<br />Naval Service: {{W|Navy Cross (United States)|Navy Cross}}<br />Air Force: {{W|Air Force Cross (United States)|Air Force Cross}}<br />Coast Guard: {{W|Coast Guard Cross}}
|image2 = [[File:Medal of Honor ribbon.svg|border|124px]]<br /><br />[[File:Medal of Honor Flag with Gold Fringe.svg|150px]]
|caption2 = {{W|Service ribbon}} and flag
}}
The '''Medal of Honor''' is the [[United Commonwealth of America]] [[United Commonwealth Armed Force|Armed Forces]]' highest decoration, currently awarded in the [[Antilles]] to soldiers, sailors, coast guardsmen, airmen, national guardsmen, and marines for acts of extreme bravery and/or outstanding military leadership in the field. The medal is nominally awarded by the [[National Assembly of the United Commonwealth]] (formerly the {{W|United States Congress}} before 1868), though in practice by the [[president of the United Commonwealth]], which is why the medal is also traditionally nicknamed the '''"Congressional Medal of Honor"'''.

There are three variants of the Medal of Honor: the [[United Commonwealth Department of the Army|Department of the Army]] variant, for soldiers and national guardsmen; the [[United Commonwealth Department of the Navy|Department of the Navy]] variant, for sailors, marines, and coast guardsmen; and the [[United Commonwealth Department of the Air Force|Department of the Air Force]] variant, for airmen and air national guardsmen. It is the oldest continuously issued decoration in the U.C. Armed Forces, with the Navy first receiving its version in 1861, after the outbreak of the [[American Civil War]], and that was followed by the Army version in 1862. The Air Force used the Army and Navy variants until the creation of its own separate one in 1965. Since the [[retreat of the government of the United Commonwealth to the Antilles]] in 1921, it has been awarded by the Antillean-based United Commonwealth of America to its servicemen, while in the mainland, the [[United Commonwealth|United Commonwealth of Continental States]] (UCCS) has replaced the medal with various other decorations. 

The awarding ceremony of the Medal consists of the president presenting it to the recipient at the National Assembly, as a symbol of gratitude from the Antillean people. According to the Antillean Armed Forces Historical Society, there have been a total of 3,221 medals awarded in total, and out of those nearly 50% were awarded during the American Civil War. A total of 95 medals were later revoked by the Federalist government in the Antilles as the recipients that earned them in the past had joined the [[Continental Revolutionary Army]].

==History==

==Appearance==
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===Army variants===
<gallery>
File:US-MOH-1862.png|1862–95 Army version
File:US-MOH-1896.png|1896–1903 Army version
File:US-MOH-1904.png|1904–44 Army version
File:Army Medal of Honor.jpg|Post 1944 Army version
</gallery>
===Naval variants===
<gallery>
File:US Navy Medal of Honor (1862 original).png|1862–1912 Navy version
File:US Navy Medal of Honor (1913 to 1942).png|1913–42 Navy version
File:Tiffany Cross Medal of Honor.jpg|1919–42 Navy "Tiffany Cross" version
File:NavyMedalofHonor.jpg|Post 1942 Navy version
</gallery>
===Air Force variants===

==Presentation==

==Legal privileges and authority== 

==Recipients==
:''See also: [[:Category:Medal of Honor recipients|Medal of Honor recipients]]''

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Awards by conflict
!scope="col"|Conflict
!scope="col"|Date
!scope="col"|Medal count (3,221)
!scope="col" class="unsortable"|List article
|-
!scope="row"|[[American Civil War|Civil War]]
|1861–1865
|style="text-align: right"|1,523
|[[List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients|American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients]]
|-
!scope="row"|[[War of Contingency]]
| 1866–1868
|style="text-align: right"|426
|[[List of Medal of Honor recipients for the War of Contingency|Medal of Honor recipients for the War of Contingency]]
|-
!scope="row"|{{W|United States expedition to Korea|Korea Expedition}}
| 1871
|style="text-align: right"| 
|[[List of Medal of Honor recipients#Korea|Medal of Honor recipients for the Korean Expedition]]
|-
!scope="row"|[[Spanish–American War]]
| 1898
|style="text-align: right"| 
|[[List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Spanish–American War|Medal of Honor recipients for the Spanish–American War]]
|-
!scope="row"|{{W|Boxer Rebellion}}
| 1899–1901
|style="text-align: right"| 
|[[List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Boxer Rebellion|Medal of Honor recipients for the Boxer Rebellion]]
|-
!scope="row"| [[Mexican Revolution|Mexican Civil War]]
| 1914–1916
|style="text-align: right"| 
|[[List of Medal of Honor recipients (Mexico)|Medal of Honor recipients for the Mexican Revolution]]
|-
!scope="row"| [[Continental Revolutionary War]]
| 1917–1921
|style="text-align: right"| 
|[[List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Continental Revolutionary War|Medal of Honor recipients for the Continental Revolutionary War]]
|-
!scope="row"| [[Great War I]]
| 1932–1938
|style="text-align: right"| 
|[[List of Medal of Honor recipients for Great War I|Great War I Medal of Honor recipients]]
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Awards by branch
!scope="col"|Branch
!scope="col"|Medal count
!scope="col" class="unsortable"|List article
|-
!scope="row"| {{army|Antilles}}
|style="text-align: right"| 
|[[:Category:United Commonwealth Army Medal of Honor recipients|Army Medal of Honor Recipients]]
|-
!scope="row"| {{navy|Antilles}}
|style="text-align: right"| 
|[[:Category:United Commonwealth Navy Medal of Honor recipients|Navy Medal of Honor Recipients]]
|-
!scope="row"| {{air force|Antilles}}
|style="text-align: right"| 
|[[:Category:United Commonwealth Air Force Medal of Honor recipients|Air Force Medal of Honor Recipients]]
|-
!scope="row"| {{marines|Antilles}}
|style="text-align: right"| 
|[[:Category:United Commonwealth Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients|Marine Corps Medal of Honor Recipients]]
|-
!scope="row"| {{coast guard|Antilles}}
|style="text-align: right"| 2
|[[:Category:United Commonwealth Coast Guard Medal of Honor recipients|Coast Guard Medal of Honor Recipients]]
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ [[:Category:Foreign-born Medal of Honor recipients|Foreign-born]] recipients by country
!scope="col"|Country
!scope="col"|Medal count
|-

|}

==See also==
*[[Hero of the United Commonwealth]]

{{United Commonwealth Armed Forces}}
{{Antilles topics}}

[[Category:Medal of Honor]]
[[Category:1862 establishments in the United States]]