Weera Wickrama Vibhushanaya

The Weera Wickrama Vibhushanaya (WWV, Decoration of Heroic Gallantry) (Sinhala: වීර වික්‍රම විභූෂණය vīra vickrama vibhūṣaṇaya) is the third-highest military decoration awarded by the Military of Sri Lanka for:

...individual acts of gallantry and conspicuous bravery of a military nature of a high order in the face of the enemy performed voluntarily whilst on active service without regard for his own security with the objective of safeguarding thereby the lives of his comrades or facilitating the operational aim of his force or for a meritorious act or a series of acts of a humane nature of a high order displayed in saving life from drowning, fire and rescue operations in mines, floods and similar calamities under circumstances of bodily injury or danger to the life of the rescuer...

— [1]
Main article: Military awards and decorations of Sri Lanka
Weera Wickrama Vibhushanaya
Medal, obverse
Awarded by Sri Lanka
TypeMilitary decoration
EligibilityAll regular and volunteer ranks of the tri-services
Awarded forIndividual acts of bravery and gallantry of a military nature during active service performed on a serviceperson's own initiative without any regard for their own life or well-being
StatusCurrently awarded
DescriptionSuspended from a plain suspension bar
ClaspsNone
Post-nominalsWWV
Statistics
Established1981
Precedence
Next (higher)Weerodara Vibhushanaya
Next (lower)Rana Wickrama Padakkama

Ribbon bar

The WWV is the highest wartime military decoration awarded by Sri Lanka that has not been awarded posthumously.

Award process

The decoration is awarded by the President to all ranks of both the regular and volunteer forces following a formal recommendation by service commanders, and a full review process. Recipients are entitled to the use of the post-nominal letters "WWV".

Decorated personnel
gollark: I guess so.
gollark: Videos aren't actually as big as equivalent image sequences because of very clever compression algorithms like H.264, VP9 and AV1, but still very large, especially 4K and such.
gollark: Images are *pretty* big, although new lossy compression stuff like AVIF can get really small sizes without horrible quality loss, and videos are gigantic since they're effectively images and audio stitched together at 60 frames a second (well, or 25, or various other ones).
gollark: Anyway, text is not big - you can fit an entire book (again with compression) into less than a megabyte. In many ebooks the cover image and such are larger than the actual text.
gollark: > Take that backNo. They're basically just PICTURES OF PAGES with some metadata. They are AWFUL for anything but scanned documents.

References
  1. "Medals". Sri Lanka Army. army.lk. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.