S.Amdt. 2025

SA 2025. Mr. NELSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of part II of subtitle H of title V, add the
following:

SEC. 593. AUTHORIZATION FOR AWARD OF THE DISTINGUISHED-
SERVICE CROSS FOR ACTS OF EXTRAORDINARY HEROISM
DURING THE KOREAN WAR.

Notwithstanding the time limitations specified in section
3744 of title 10, United States Code, or any other time
limitation with respect to the awarding of certain medals to
persons who served in the Armed Forces, the Secretary of the
Army may award the Distinguished-Service Cross under

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section 3742 of such title to Edward Halcomb who, while
serving in Korea as a member of the United States Army in the
grade of Private First Class in Company B, 1st Battalion,
29th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, distinguished
himself by acts of extraordinary heroism from August 20,
1950, to October 19, 1950, during the Korean War.
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