Template:Ribbons

Displaying Multiple Citations of the Same Service Ribbon

Multiple Service Ribbons Policy

Any general ribbon, ribbon of gallantry & heroism, or lifesaving ribbon may be awarded multiple times, but any campaign ribbon may only be awarded once. A gold star represents each repeated citation, and a silver star represents five additional citations (and therefore five gold stars).

-The Captains Council

How to use this template:

{{Ribbons|file name of service ribbon|width in pixels|number of times awarded}}

Service Ribbons are available here: Category:Service Ribbons Award Images

So for instance, just type in

{{Ribbons|Awards ServiceRibbons LegionOfMerit 2011.jpg|200|4}}

if you earned the Legion of Merit a total of four times, and you'll get the appropriate arrangement of stars!

Let's say you've been awarded the Silver Star 7 times (wow!) and you want to display the ribbon at a width of 100 pixels. You'd type in:

{{Ribbons|Awards ServiceRibbons SilverStar 2011.jpg|100|7}}

and get

Right-aligned single star

Some service ribbons such as the Explorer’s Ribbon and the Gold and Silver Lifesaving Ribbons have a special design in the center. If you don't want to block it with your star, use 2r and 6r to display a gold (2 citations) and silver star (6 citations) respectively, aligned to the right of the ribbon's center.

For instance,

{{Ribbons|Awards ServiceRibbons LifesavingSilver 2011.jpg|100|2r}}

gives you

The template currently supports up to 11 citations of the same service ribbon, and yes, you can use this template to also display a single citation of the ribbon as well by leaving off the last number or putting a 1.

Here's how they all look:

Citations	Ribbon
1
2
2r
3
4
5
6
6r
7
8
9
10
11

And here's how it looks in a service rack:

The code used for that:

{| cellpadding="0" style="border: 1px solid darkgray;"
|- border="0"
| [[File:Awards_General_Tosma1_2011.jpg|100px]]
| {{Ribbons|Awards ServiceRibbons LegionOfMerit 2011.jpg|100|4}}
|-
| {{Ribbons|Awards ServiceRibbons SilverStar 2011.jpg|100|7}}
| {{Ribbons|Awards ServiceRibbons PurpleHeart 2011.jpg|100|2}}
|-
| [[File:Awards-ServiceRibbon-VaadwaurInvasion.jpg|100px]]
| {{Ribbons|Awards ServiceRibbons LifesavingGold 2011.jpg|100|2r}}
|}

Problems or Questions?

Let Rich know!