his hair being trimmed very tight at the sides, a reference to him being a former Marine When it comes to weapons Gibbs is well versed. Gibbs carries a SIG Sauer P228 and a revolver strapped to his ankle. In season 14 Gibbs switches his primary to a Colt M1911. The gun was his father's. He also carries a knife at all times. In his home Gibbs is seen hiding the pistol in his bookcase. Gibbs also keeps his basement stocked. Under his work bench he keeps a Smith and Wesson Model 66. Gibbs also keeps his Remington M40 sniper rifle in his basement. Awards and citations At the end of the episode "Murder 2.0", Gibbs was awarded his seventh Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, but as with the other six times, he did not attend the award ceremony and Tony accepts the medal on his behalf. When Gibbs shows no interest in it, Tony locks it in a box containing several similar presentation cases, all of which were awarded to Gibbs. One of these medals is revealed to have been a Silver Star, which Gibbs bestows on Corporal Damon Werth in the episode "Corporal Punishment". It is revealed in the episode "Hiatus Pt. 1" that Gibbs received the Purple Heart after being injured in Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War and was in a coma for nineteen days as a result. Gibbs was shown wearing the following awards and decorations in the episodes "One Shot, One Kill" and "Honor Code". Note: The Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Medal ribbon is placed as a U.S. non-military personal decoration after U.S. military unit awards in the order of precedence. Gibbs' Rules In the episode "Heartland", Gibbs is revealed by flashbacks to have met his first wife, Shannon (portrayed in that episode by Aviva Baumann), while waiting at the Stillwater train platform in summer of 1976, where she tells him about her rules for life that would inspire a similar set of Gibbs' own that he now teaches to his subordinate agents at NCIS - his own series of around fifty rules that he now lives by (with the rules in the forties and above supposedly used for emergency situations). Reception Early reception was primarily positive. During NCIS first season on air, Ross Warneke wrote of Gibbs, "He's still wincing from three failed marriages and is a bit of a renegade within