Medal for Defense Superior Service awarded to Col. Colin L. Powell

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

One (1) Medal for Defense Superior Service awarded to General Colin L. Powell. The medal is designed in the shape of a circular oak leaf wreath with silver five-pointed stars arced over its top half, with a blue enameled pentagon in the center, on top of which is the United States Great Seal eagle. The reverse of the medal is inscribed at the top of the rounded wreath “FOR SUPERIOR SERVICE”. On the pentagon is the inscription “FROM / THE SECRETARY / OF DEFENSE / TO”. The bottom space is empty for inscribing the name of the medal’s recipient. The medal is suspended from a double-sided silk ribbon of five striped colors, golden yellow, blue, white, and scarlet.

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