Sailors with the USS Oscar Austin were awarded Combat Action Ribbons for providing air and missile defense during deployments ...

The crew of the destroyer Oscar Austin received military decorations for providing combat support to U.S. naval forces in the ...

NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) returned to Naval ...

Nor does his record indicate that he received the Navy’s Combat Action Ribbon, which requires that a sailor "must have rendered satisfactory performance under enemy fire while actively ...

The Combat Action Ribbon, or CAR, is awarded to sailors and Marines who actively participated in ground or surface action, and the Navy has rarely given it to sailors since the 1991 Gulf War.