Editing Navy Unit Commendation (section)

{{Short description|US Navy award}}
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{{Infobox military award
|name=Navy Unit Commendation
|image=[[File:Navy Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|116px|border|alt=The Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon]]
|caption=The Navy Unit Commendation ribbon
|presenter=the [[United States Department of the Navy|Department of the Navy]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://awards.navy.mil/awards/webdoc01.nsf/(vwDocsByID)/DL060927142728/$file/1650.1H.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918020113/https://awards.navy.mil/awards/webdoc01.nsf/(vwDocsByID)/DL060927142728/$file/1650.1H.pdf |archive-date=2010-09-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|type=[[Service ribbon]] (decoration)
|eligibility= U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard units; and friendly foreign armed forces units serving with the U.S. Armed Forces 
|awarded_for=Outstanding heroism in action against the enemy or extremely meritorious service (non-combat) in support of military operations.
|status=Currently awarded
|established=December 1944 
|firstawarded=
|lastawarded=Ongoing
|total_awarded=
|total_awarded_posthumously=
|total_recipients=
|higher=[[Joint Meritorious Unit Award]]
|same=Army: [[Valorous Unit Award]] <br/> Air and Space Forces: [[Gallant Unit Citation]] <br/> Coast Guard: [[Coast Guard Unit Commendation]] <br/> Department of Transportation: [[Secretary of Transportation Outstanding Unit Award]]
|lower=[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]]
|image2= [[File:Navy Unit Commendation streamer.svg|300px]]<br />Streamer
}}
[[File:1st_Marine_Expeditionary_Force_(I_MEF)_Navy_Unit_Commendation_Citation_2004-2005_Iraq.jpg|thumb|upright|An official Navy Unit Commendation, 2004-2005]]
The '''Navy Unit Commendation''' ('''NUC''') is a [[United States Navy]] and [[United States Coast Guard]] unit award that was established by order of the [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]] [[James Forrestal]] on 18 December 1944.