Executive Order 12754

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Executive Order 12754 by President of the United States Establishing the Southwest Asia Service Medal

Executive Order 12755→

Signed by President  George Herbert Walker Bush   March 12, 1991

Federal Register page and date: 56 FR 11055, March 15, 1991

See the Notes section for a listing of Executive Orders affected by or related to the issuance of this Executive Order.

Executive Order 12754 of March 12, 1991

Establishing the Southwest Asia Service Medal

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including my authority as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. There is estabtished, with suitable appurtenances, the Southwest Asia Service Medal. It may be awarded to members of the Armed Forces of the United States who participated in military operations in Southwest Asia or in the surrounding contiguous waters or air space on or after August 2, 1990, and before a terminal date to be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.

Sec. 2. The Southwest Asia Service Medal may be awarded posthumously to any person covered by, and under the circumstances described in, section 1 of this order.

Sec. 3. The Secretaries of the Military Departments, with the approval of the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, are directed to prescribe uniform regulations governing the award and wearing of the Southwest Asia Service Medal.

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Amended by

• Executive Order 12790, March 3, 1992

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