10-565: The Australian Operational Service Medal is a campaign medal established on 22 May 2012 to recognise service by Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel on designated hazardous operations. It may also be awarded to civilians who serve alongside the ADF on designated operations under specific conditions. It replaces the Australian Active Service Medal and Australian Service Medal for future ADF operations. The medal
20-521: A foreign region or service in a combat zone. Campaign medals were first invented to recognize general military service in war, in contrast to meritorious decorations which were only issued on a small scale for acts of heroism and bravery. The campaign were first issued by the British military with the medal awarded for the defeat of the Invincible Armada , with the 1815 Waterloo Medal being
30-502: A member of one of the declared operations, or were deployed or force assigned to a declared operation and completed 30 sorties from a unit assigned to the operation, so long as the sorties were conducted over a period of not less than 30 aggregate days with no more than one sortie counted per day. Members must also have been: Members are not eligible for an award of the AOSM-BP where an entitlement exists to another Australian medal for
40-422: A number of declared operations , and determined the conditions for award of Clasps. Campaign medal A campaign medal is a military decoration which is awarded to a member of an armed force who serves in a designated military operation or performs duty in a geographical theater . Campaign medals are very similar to service medals but carry a higher status as the award usually involves deployment to
50-487: Is issued to military personnel with a different ribbon for each designated operation. When issued to civilians, a standard ribbon is issued with clasps issued for each designated operation. The Australian Operational Service Medal is a campaign medal established by Royal Letters Patent on 22 May 2012. This campaign medal was instituted as a replacement for future issues of the Australian Active Service Medal and Australian Service Medal and operational campaign medals for
60-504: The same medal design as the military version, but is awarded with a unique civilian ribbon and a clasp denoting the declared operation. Subsequent qualifying service for civilians will be (is) denoted by clasps . Clasps announced (and awarded) to date are listed below. The variant for border protection operations was announced on 19 July 2012. This variant will be (is) awarded to Australian Defence Force personnel who have served on border protection operations since 1997. The ribbon for
70-538: The Australian Defence Force, as well as to recognise the service of Defence civilians in declared operational areas. It is awarded as either a military or civilian variant. The military version of the medal has a standard medal design, but ribbons vary by operation . An accumulated service device will be awarded for subsequent qualifying service by ADF members where they undertake further service on an operation for which they have already been awarded
80-608: The Australian Operational Service Medal. To date, four ribbons for ADF service have been announced: The Australian Operational Service Medal (Civilian) was established to allow for recognition of Defence civilians, who had agreed to be subject to the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982 and were employed overseas to support the operations of a deployed military force in a declared area of operations. The civilian version uses
90-453: The medal is 32 mm wide with a central stripe of ochre flanked by one blue stripe and one green stripe of equal width. The declared operations are: Personnel who served on naval vessels, maritime patrol aircraft or Regional Force Surveillance Unit patrols whilst assigned to any of these operations may be eligible. Members of the Australian Defence Force must have served either an aggregate of 30 days either deployed or force assigned as
100-576: The same deployment. Members are not eligible for an award of the AOSM-BP where the member was part of: The eligibility requirements for this medal are: The declared operations are: The eligibility requirements for this medal are: The declared operations are: On 12 December 2012, the Governor-General declared, for the purposes of the Australian Operational Service Medal Regulation 2012,
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