[MaggieL]

Blind Man's Buff is a heck of a book. It describes events as recent as 1992, but focuses much more on earlier events.

It also points out the existence of "black" decorations, awarded off the open record for operations that are still classified. There were a couple of DFCs given to SR-71 crew on that basis too, but that's a different book.

If I was looking for Naval personnel who had been "in foriegn territory facing armed opposition or who have operated under circumstances deemed to merit special recognition and for which no campaign medal has been awarded", I'd be thinking about either Naval Special Warfare or very black SIGINT operations.

Or perhaps both.