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Issue Regulations: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
http://www.amervets.com/replacement/afem.htm#isr

The Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal was established by Executive Order 10977
signed by President John F. Kennedy on December 4, 1961. The Armed Forces
Expeditionary Medal may be awarded to members of the Armed Forces of the United
States who after 1 July 1958 participate as members of U.S. military units in a
U.S. military operation in which service members of any Military Department
participate, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), in significant
numbers and encounter during such participation foreign armed opposition, or are
otherwise place in such a position that in the opinion of the JCS, hostile
action by foreign armed forces was imminent even though it does not materialize.

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Phone / Fax: 1-310-532-0634

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