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A service medal is an award to individuals who participated in designated wars, campaigns, or expeditions, or who have fulfilled specific service requirements in a creditable manner. Service medals are sometimes also Campaign medals.
Usage examples of "service medal".
He had a Distinguished Service Cross (the second highest decoration for valor), a Distinguished Service Medal, a Silver Star, and a chapter in the textbooks.
One of these was yellow with two narrow red, white, and blue stripes representing the American Defense Service Medal, awarded to all military per-sonnel who had been on active duty before 7 December 1941.
Pinned to the chest of the field jacket were three military decorations: a Vietnam Service Medal, a Silver Star, and a Purple Heart.
Among the first to join the postWorld War II Navy, he saw combat while on a minesweeper during the Korean War, winning the Korean Service Medal with six battle stars.
A Citation for Courage, a service medal, six battle stars and three Purple Hearts.
On the breast of the tunic were three rows of medal ribbons---two Orders of Lenin, Order of Suvorov, Order of Alexander Nevsky, Order of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Red Star, the Twenty Years Service medal and medals for the Defence of Moscow and the Capture of Berlin.
Claggett needed only to look at Mancuso's uniform to see the ribbon that denoted a Distinguished Service Medal, America's highest peace-time decoration.
His second Distinguished Service Medal, awarded for that mission, was classified and he couldn't wear it.
Kazakov had received a promotion to full colonel and the People's Meritorious Service medal for his audacity and warrior spirit.
They also awarded her a Purple Heart and a Prisoner's Service Medal.
He stayed in cryptanalysis all during the war, winning the Distinguished Service Medal, and even afterward, rising to a captaincy.
He also did not choose to wear the single ribbon everyone in the service was entitled to, the American Defense Service Medal.