Membership Eligibility


Eligibility Information
Campaign Medal
Military Service
Period During Which Issued
Expeditionary
Navy
12 Feb. 1874
Indeterminate
Spanish Campaign
Army
11 May 1898
16 Aug. 1898
Navy
20 Apr. 1898
10 Dec. 1898
Army of Cuban Occupation
Army
18 July 1898
20 May 1902
Army of Puerto Rican Occupation
Army
14 Aug. 1898
10 Dec. 1898
Philippine Campaign
Army
04 Feb. 1899
31 Dec. 1913
Navy
04 Feb.1899
15 Sept. 1906
China Campaign
Army
20 June 1900
27 May 1901
China Relief Expedition
Navy
05 Apr. 1900
27 May 1901
Army of Cuban Pacification
Army
06 Oct. 1906
01 Apr. 1909
Cuban Pacification
Navy
12 Sept. 1906
01 Apr. 1909
Mexican Service
Army
12 Apr. 1911
16 June 1919
Navy
12 Apr. 1914
07 Feb. 1917
First Nicaraguan Campaign
Navy
29 July 1912
14 Nov. 1912
Haitian Campaign
Navy
09 July 1915
06 Dec. 1915
01 Apr. 1919
15 June 1920
Dominican Campaign
Navy
04 May 1916
05 Dec. 1916
World War I Victory
(with Battle or Service Clasp including Siberia and European Russia)
Army
06 Apr. 1917
01 Apr. 1920
Navy
06 Apr. 1917
30 Mar. 1920
Army of Occupation of Germany
Army
12 Nov. 1918
11 July 1923
Second Nicaraguan Campaign
Navy
27 Aug. 1926
02 Jan. 1933
Yangtze Service
Navy
03 Sept. 1926
21 Oct. 1927
01 Mar. 1930
31 Dec. 1932
China Service
Navy
07 July 1937
07 Sept. 1939
02 Sept. 1945
01 Apr. 1957
American Defense Service
(with Foreign Service Clasp)
Army-Navy
08 Sept. 1939
07 Dec. 1941
American Campaign
(30 consecutive days or 60 days non-consecutive duty outside continental limits of the United States
Army-Navy
07 Dec. 1941
02 Mar. 1946
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Army-Navy
07 Dec. 1941
02 Mar. 1946
European-African
Middle Eastern Campaign
Army-Navy
07 Dec. 1941
08 Nov. 1945
Army of Occupation
30 consecutive days
Italy
09 May 1945
15 Sept. 1947
Germany (except West Berlin)
09 May 1945
05 May 1955
Germany (West Berlin)
09 May 1945
02 Oct. 1990
Austria
09 May 1945
27 July 1955
Korea
03 Sept. 1945
29 June 1949
Japan
03 Sept. 1945
27 Apr. 1952
Navy Occupation Service Medal
Italy
08 May 1945
15 Dec. 1947
Trieste
08 May 1945
26 Oct. 1954
Germany (except West Berlin)
08 May 1945
05 May 1955
Austria
08 May 1945
25 Oct. 1955
Asiatic Pacific
02 Sept. 1945
27 Apr. 1952
Korean Service Medal
Army, Navy, Air Force
27 June 1950
27 July 1954
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Berlin
14 Aug. 1961
01 June 1963
Lebanon
01 July 1958
01 Nov. 1958
Quemoy & Matsu Island
23 Aug. 1958
01 June 1963
Taiwan Straits
23 Aug. 1958
01 Jan. 1959
Congo
14 July 1960
01 Sept. 1962
23-27 Nov. 1964
Laos
19 Apr. 1961
07 Oct. 1962
Vietnam
01 July 1958
03 July 1965
Cuba
24 Oct. 1962
01 June 1963
Dominican Republic
28 Apr. 1965
21 Sept. 1966
Korea
01 Oct. 1966
30 June 1974
Cambodia
29 Mar. 1973
15 Aug. 1973
Thailand (in direct support
of Cambodia Operation)
29 Mar. 1973
15 Aug. 1973
Evacuation of Cambodia
11-13 Apr. 1975
Evacuation of Vietnam
29-30 Apr. 1975
Mayaguez Operation
15 May 1975
Grenada Operation
23 Oct. 1983
21 Nov. 1983
Lebanon
01 June 1983
01 Dec. 1987
Libyan Operation-
El Dorado Canyon
12-17 Apr. 1986
Persian Gulf-Operation Earnest Will
24 July 1987
02 Aug. 1990
Panama-Operation Just Cause
20 Dec. 1989
31 Jan. 1990
Somalia-Operation Restore Hope
05 Dec. 1992
31 Mar. 1995
Haiti-Operation Uphold Democracy
16 Sept. 1994
31 Mar. 1995
Operation Southern Watch
(Saudi arabia, Kuwait, Iraq
Arabian Gulf, Red Sea
01 Dec. 1995
Indeterminate
Ed Salvador
01 Jan. 1981
01 Feb. 1992
Bosnia-Operation Joint Endeavor
20 Nov. 1995
20 Dec. 1996
Operation Joint Guard
20 Dec. 1996
Indeterminate
Operation Vigilant Sentinel (Persian Gulf)
01 Dec. 1995
15 Feb. 1997
Operation Northern Watch (Iraq)
01 Jan. 1997
Indeterminate
Persian Gulf intercept operations
01 Dec. 1995
Indeterminate
Navy & Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal
Thailand Military Operation
16 May 1962
10 Aug. 1962
Cuban Military Operation
03 Jan. 1961
23 Oct. 1962
Iranian, Yemen & Indian Ocean Operation
08 Dec. 1978
06 June 1979
21 Nov. 1979
20 Oct. 1981
Lebanon
20 Aug. 1982
31 May 1983
Libyan Expedition
20 Jan. 1986
27 June 1986
Persian Gulf
01 Feb. 1987
23 July 1987
Panama - (pre and post invasion)
01 Apr. 1988
19 Dec. 1989
01 Feb. 1990
13 June 1990
Liberia(Operation Sharp Edge)
05 Aug. 1990
21 Feb. 1991
Rwanda (Operation Distant Runner)
(11th Marine Expeditionary Unit USS Peleliu)
07-18 Apr. 1994
Vietnam Service Medal
04 July 1965
28 Mar. 1973
Southwest Asia Service Medal
(Operation Desert Shield/
Operation Desert Storm)
Combat areas of operation only
02 Aug. 1990
30 Nov. 1995
Personnel assigned to support units
serving in Israel, Egypt, Turkey,
Syria, Jordan
17 Jan. 1991
30 Nov. 1995
Combat Action Ribbon
01 Mar. 1961
Indeterminate
Combat Infantry Badge & Combat Medical Badge
06 Dec. 1941
Indeterminate
Korean Service
(no campaign medal issued)
Service on the Korean Peninsula, or in
its territorial waters for thirty (30),
consecutive or sixty (60)
nonconsecutive days.
30 June 1949
indeterminate.