---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1127"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1127"
heading: "Precedence of the award of the Purple Heart"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1127"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 57 — Decorations and Awards"
---

# §1127. Precedence of the award of the Purple Heart


In prescribing regulations establishing the order of precedence of awards and decorations authorized to be displayed on the uniforms of [members](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4), the Secretary of the military [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned shall accord the Purple Heart a position of precedence, in relation to other awards and decorations authorized to be displayed, not lower than that immediately following the bronze star.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–525, title V, § 553(a), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2532; amended Pub. L. 99–145, title V, § 533, Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 634.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1985—Pub. L. 99–145 substituted “the bronze star” for “the lowest position accorded any award or decoration for valor”.