Australian Active Service Medal

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Australian Active Service Medal



Obverse of medal (with East Timor clasp) and ribbon
Awarded by Australia
Type Campaign medal
Awarded for Service in prescribed warlike operations
Status Currently issued
Statistics
Established 13 September 1988
Total awarded 43,300 as at 30 June 2006
Precedence
Next (lower) Australian Service Medal
Related Australian Active Service Medal 1945-1975

The Australian Active Service Medal is an Australian military decoration. It was authorized 13 September 1988 to recognise prescribed service in warlike operations. It is awarded with a clasp to denote the prescribed operation and subsequent awards of the medal are made in the form of additional clasps.

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[edit] Description

  • The AASM is a nickel-silver medal ensigned with the Crown of St Edward. The obverse has a Federation Star within a wreath of mimosa.
  • The reverse bears a laurel wreath surrounding the inscription 'FOR ACTIVE SERVICE'.
  • The medal ribbon has a central red stripe to symbolise the danger of warlike operations. It is flanked by stripes of silver-green which in turn are flanked by stripes of light green, gold, dark green and brown.

[edit] Clasps

[edit] VIETNAM 1975

1 days service associated with RAAF activities with Transport Support Flight Butterworth or HQ Richmond Detachment 'S' to UNICEF, from 29 March 1975 to 28 April 1975.

[edit] NAMIBIA

30 days service with the United Nations Transitional Assistance Group (UNTAG) from 18 February 1989 to 10 April 1990.

[edit] KUWAIT

Service with the multinational deployment in the Persian Gulf from 17 January 1991 to 28 February 1991.

[edit] CAMBODIA

1 days service (or 1 sortie) with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) from 20 October 1991 to 7 October 1993.

[edit] BALKANS

1 days service (or 1 sortie) with the United Nations Peacekeeping activities in the former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR, UNMIBH, UNCRO, UNPREDEP, UNTAES) from 12 January 1992 to 24 January 1997.

[edit] SOMALIA

1 days service (or 1 sortie) with the:

[edit] RWANDA

1 days service with the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, OP TAMAR, from 25 July 1994 to 8 March 1996.

[edit] EAST TIMOR

1 days service (or 1 sortie) with the:
See also INTERFET Medal.

[edit] ICAT

1 days service (or 1 sortie) as part of the International Coalition Against Terror:
See also Afghanistan Medal.

[edit] IRAQ 2003

1 days service (or 1 sortie) in the Middle East Area as part of the:
  • ADF contribution deployed overseas to the United States-led military coalition operations to remove the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, OP FALCONER, from 18 March 2003 to 22 July 2003.
  • ADF participation in United States-led coalition in Iraq, to support the effort to assist with the rehabilitation of Iraq, and to remove the threat posed to world security by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capability, OP CATALYST, from 16 July 2003 to Present
See also Iraq Medal.

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