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An IMPACT award is an award that the Commander (Approval Authority) has pre-approved to be given out with orders to follow later. So it's pretty much an achievement award that the Approving Authority has given verbal approval on. It really has nothing to do with impacting or having impact on
anything. In the old days we would have a formation/inspection and during that formation/inspection the Company Commander would have verbal authority from the Battalion Commander (Approval Authority) to hand out up to 4 AAM's for outstanding performance, or anything he deemed was worthy of recognition... he would pin the medal on the soldier immediately and then submit the DA638 for signature, and put ACH (IMPACT) in block 12a to let the approval authority know the award was already approved and presented and a signature was needed.
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