This seems to be alot of gusto for nothing too much - or maybe I'm not looking at it right. The military has meritorious awards and gallantry awards; just issue the meritorious rewards to those who show things like "courageous retraint" to further the mission, a high-degree of cultural awareness and an affinity for operating amongst a foreign populace. Heck, we recognize Majors for designing fancy training support stuff, you think we could give a Sergeant the same award for being good at "Small Wars".

It's all in how you write the citation.