Good stuff Prime iv only one thing to add to this - when anyone is requesting their own appropriate medals make sure when you click on that final submit button that you click only once and don't try clicking multiple times if the web browser you are using is slow.
All this will do is request multiples of the same requested award and give the admin staff a shit more work than what's needed.
Ignorance of this can end up on loss of the medal from the users profile altogether.(Cheech has touched on this same subject quite a while back)