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Note: The information presented here is to be used for guideline purposes only. The separation document or DD 214 MUST reflect campaign medal service to establish eligibility. Service in Korea without the issuance of a campaign medal can be established with additional support documentation. Hostile Fire or Imminent Danger Pay can be established with pay records.

Campaign Medal Military Service

Period During Which Issued

Expeditionary Navy 12 Feb. 1874-Indeterminate
Spanish Campaign Army
Navy
11 May 1898 to 16 Aug. 1898
20 April 1898 to 10 Dec. 1898
Army Of Cuban Occupation Army 18 July 1898 to 20 May 1902
Army of Puerto Rican Occupation Army 14 Aug. 1898 to 10 Dec. 1898
Philippine Campaign Army
Navy
4 Feb. 1899 to 31 Dec. 1913
4 Feb. 1899 to 15 Sept. 1906
China Campaign Army 20 June 1900 to 27 May 1901
China Relief Expedition Navy 5 April 1900 to 27 May 1901
Army of Cuban Pacification Army 6 Oct. 1906 to 1 April 1909
Cuban Pacification Navy 12 Sept. 1906 to 1 April 1909
Mexican Service Army
Navy
12 April 1911 to 16 June 1919
12 April 1914 to 7 Feb. 1917
First Nicaraguan Campaign Navy 29 July 1912 to 14 Nov. 1912
Haitian Campaign Navy 9 July 1915 to 6 Dec. 1915
1 April 1919 to 15 June 1920
Dominican Campaign Navy 4 May 1916 to 5 Dec. 1916
World War I Victory
(with Battle of Service clasp
including Siberia and
European Russia)
Army
Navy
6 April 1917 to 30 April 1920
6 April 1917 to 30 Mar. 1920
Army of Occupation of Germany Army 12 Nov. 1918 to 11 July 1923
Second Nicaraguan Campaign Navy 27 Aug. 1926 to 2 Jan. 1933
Yangtze Service Navy 3 Sept. 1926 to 21 Oct. 1927
1 Mar. 1930 to 31 Dec. 1941
China Service Navy 7 July 1937 to 7 Sept. 1939
2 Sept. 1945 to 1 April 1957
American Defense Service
(with Foreign Service clasp)
Army
Navy
8 Sept. 1939 to 7 dec. 1941
American Campaign
(30 consecutive days or 60 days not
consecutive duty outside continental
limits of United States
Army
Navy
7 Dec. 1941 to 2 Mar. 1946
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Army
Navy
7 Dec. 1941 to 2 mar. 1946
European-African-Middle Eatern Campaign Army
Navy
7 Dec. 1941 to 8 Nov. 1945
Army of Occupation(30 consecutive days)
Italy
Germany(except West Berlin)
Germany(West Berlin)
Austria
Korea
Japan
Army
Navy
Air Force
9 May 1945 to 15 Sept. 1947
9 May 1945 to 5 May 1955
9 may 1945 to 2 Oct. 1990
9 May 1945 to 27 July 1955
3 Sept. 1945 to 29 June 1949
3 Sept. 1945 to 27 April 1952
Navy Occupation Service Medal
Italy
Trieste
Germany(except West Berlin)
Austria
Asiatic Pacific
Army
Navy
Air Force
8 May 1945 to 15 Dec. 1947
8 May 1945 to 26 Oct. 1954
8 May 1945 to 5 May 1955
8 May 1945 to 25 Oct. 1955
2 Sept. 1945 to 27 April 1952
Korean Service Medal Army
Navy
Air Force
27 June 1950 to 27 July 1954
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Berlin
Lebanon
Quemoy and Matsu Islands
Taiwan Straits
Congo
Laos
Vietnam
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Korea
Cambodia
Thailand(direct support of Cambodia operations)
Evacuation of Cambodia
Evacuation of Vietnam
Mayaguez Operation
Grenada Operation
Lebanon
Libyan Operation -- El Dorado Canyon
Persian Gulf --Opeation earnest Will
Panama -- Operation Just Cause
Somalia -- Operation Restore Hope
Haiti -- Operation Uphold Democracy
Operation Southern Watch (Saudi Arabia, Kumait, Iraq, Arabian Gulf, Red Sea)
El Savador
Army
Navy
Air Force
14 Aug. 1961 tol June 1963
1July1958to1 Nov. 1958
23 Aug. 1958101 June 1963
23 Aug. 1958 to 1 Jan. 1959
14 July 1960 to 1 Sept. 1962
23-27 Nov. 1964
19 April 1961 to 7 Oct. 1962
1 July 1958 to 3 July 1965
24 Oct. 1962 to 1 June 1963
28 April 1965 to 21 Sept. 1966
1 Oct. 1966 to 30 June 1974
29 Mar. 1973 to 15 Aug 1973
29 Mar. 1973 to 15 Aug 1973
11-13 April 1975
29-30 April 1975
15 May 1975
23 Oct. 1983 to 21 Nov. 1983
1 June 1983 to 1 Dec. 1987
12-17 April 1986
24 July 1987 to 2 Aug. 1990
20 Dec. 1989 to 31 Jan. 1990
5 Dec. 1992 to 31 Mar. 1995
16 Sept. 1994 to 31 Mar. 1995
1 Dec, 1995 -- Indeterminate
1 Jan. 1981 to 1 Feb. 1992
Navy and Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal
Thailand Military Operation
Cuban Military Operation
Iranian, Yemen and Indian Ocean Operations
Lebanon
Libyan Expedition
Persian Gulf
Panama - (pre and post invasion)
Liberia (Operation Sharp Edge)
Rwanda (Operation Distant Runner)
(11th Marine Expeditionary Unit USS Peleliu)
Navy
Marine
16 May 1962 to 10 Aug. 1962
3 Jan. 1961 to 23 Oct. 1962
8 Dec. 1978 to 6 June 1979
21 Nov. 1979 to 20 Oct. 1981
20 Aug. 1982 to 31 May 1983
20 Jan. 1986 to 27 June 1986
1 Feb. 1987 to 23 July 1987
1 Apr. 1988 to 19 Dec. 1989
1 Feb. 1990to13June1990
5 Aug. 1990 to 21 Feb. 1991
7-18 Apr. 1994
Vietnam Service Medal Vietnam 4 July 1965 to 28 mar. 1973
Southwest Asia Service Medal
(Operation Desert Shield/Operation Desert Storm)
Combat areas of operation only
Personnel assigned to support units serving in Israel,
Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Jordan
Armed Forces 2 Aug. l990 -- indeterminate
17 Jan. 1991 -- indeterminate
Combat Action Ribbon Armed Forces 1 Mar. 1961 -- Indeterminate
Combat Infantry Badge & Combat Medical Badge Armed Forces 6 Dec. 1941 -- Indeterminate
Combat Infantry Badge & Combat Medical Badge
Service on the Korean Penninsula for tor in its territorial waters for thirty (30) consecutive or sixty (60) days.
Armed Forces 6 Dec. 1941 -- Indeterminate

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