Marine Corps Victory Medal

"All the VM says about a Marine was that he or she slipped on the uniform or wore the armor at one point during a war while within a few dozen parsecs of the front lines. Other than that it's an overblown, useless waste of metal and cloth."

- Marine Sergeant Denaas Bekuur

The Marine Corps Victory Medal was a decoration issued to enlisted personnel, non-commissioned and commissioned officers who served within the Republic Marines during a conflict which the was a party to. Earning the decoration was automatic, though it did require that an individual served in the overall theater of operations in some capacity including, but not limited to direct combat or operations conducted in support of front-line troops.

Within the history of the Republic Marines' existence, a number of variations were created for the Victory Medal to reflect the conflict for which they were awarded. The medal itself remained the same, a bronze disc with silver points engraved with the logo of the Marine Corps. The key difference was in the ribbon, which was reflected in the uniform pin worn on a Marine's dress uniform that signified that they had earned it. A total of nine such variations were created during the Marines' four thousand years of service to the Republic: