Coast Guard Bicentennial Unit Commendation

{{Short description|Unit award of the US Coast Guard}}

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{{Infobox Military Award

|name=Coast Guard Bicentennial Unit Commendation

|image=Bicentennial Unit Commendation ribbon.svg

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|presenter=United States Coast Guard

|type=Unit award

|eligibility=Service with the Coast Guard from March 1989 to October 1989.

|awarded_for="[F]or an extraordinary level of service to the government and citizens of the United States for 200 years and in particular from March 1989 through October 1989."{{cite web|last1=Yost|first1=Paul A. Jr.|title=Coast Guard Bicentennial Unit Commendation Citation |url=http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcboutwell/docs/Awards/03%2002JAN1990%20BICENTENNIAL%20UNIT%20COMMENDATION.pdf|publisher=United States Coast Guard|access-date=31 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304223359/https://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcboutwell/docs/Awards/03%2002JAN1990%20BICENTENNIAL%20UNIT%20COMMENDATION.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}

|status=No longer awarded

|established=2 January 1990

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|lastawarded=

|total_awarded=

|total_awarded_posthumously=

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|higher=Air and Space Organizational Excellence Award{{cite web |url=https://media.defense.gov/2017/Mar/29/2001723556/-1/-1/0/CIM_1650_25E.PDF |title=Coast Guard Medals and Awards Manual, COMDTINST M1650.25E |date=15 August 2016 |website=U.S. Department of Defense|publisher=U.S. Coast Guard |access-date=14 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904105203/https://media.defense.gov/2017/Mar/29/2001723556/-1/-1/0/CIM_1650_25E.PDF |archive-date=4 September 2017 |url-status=dead}}

|same=

|lower=Prisoner of War Medal

}}

The Coast Guard Bicentennial Unit Commendation was a unit award of the United States Coast Guard which was awarded to all active, reserve, auxiliary, and civilian personnel of the Coast Guard for service from March 1989 to October 1989.

The award was issued only to those whose service up to the issuance date was honorable and it could be issued to members of other services who were assigned to the Coast Guard and served in that period.{{cite web|title=BICENTENNIAL UNIT COMMENDATION|url=http://www.foxfall.com/fra-cgur-buc.htm|publisher=foxfall.com|access-date=13 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010724141312/http://www.foxfall.com/fra-cgur-buc.htm |archive-date=24 July 2001 |url-status=dead}}{{Dubious |Foxfall|date=July 2020}}

Wearing of the ribbon was stipulated to be placed after the Air and Space Organizational Excellence Award and before the Prisoner of War Medal.