Expanding Eligibility for the Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Signed April 18, 2014·Barack Obama·79 FR 22591
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Amends Executive Order 12019, which established the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, to expand eligibility for the award. The change allows the medal to be given not only to members of the United States armed forces but also to members of the armed forces of a friendly foreign nation.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Executive Order 13666 of April 18, 2014
Expanding Eligibility for the Defense Meritorious
Service Medal
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Executive Order 12019 of November 3, 1977 (Establishing
the Defense Meritorious Service Medal), is amended by
inserting “, or to any member of the armed forces of a
friendly foreign nation,” after “any member of the
Armed Forces of the United States”.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 18, 2014.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed April 18, 2014. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.