The Army has defined the requirements for the wearing of bronze service stars with the Afghanistan Campaign Medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As previously reported, the Defense Department announced Feb. 13 that Operation Freedom Sentinel is a qualifying operation for the award of the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, which began Sept. 1, 2001, was terminated Dec. 31, 2014, along with the Transition I campaign phase of that operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Transition II began Jan. 1 as a new campaign phase for the Afghanistan Campaign Medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under guidance to be provided in the Army’s military awards regulation, AR 600-8-22, one bronze service star should be worn on the suspension and campaign ribbon of the ACM to denote participation in each designated campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Should a soldier’s initial period of deployment overlap one or more of the approved campaign phases listed below, the soldier will be credited with participation in each campaign phase, and be entitled to a bronze service star for each campaign phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bronze service stars are not authorized for periods when the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal was awarded in lieu of the ACM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The changes are effective immediately, and will be included in the next revision of AR 600-8-22, according to information released March 4 by the Human Resources Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Operations<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n Enduring Freedom: Sept. 11, 2001-Dec. 31, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n Freedom’s Sentinel: Jan. 1, 2015- to be determined<\/p>\n\n\n\n Campaign Phases<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n Liberation of Afghanistan: Sept. 1, 2001-Nov. 30, 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consolidation I: Dec. 1, 2001-Sept. 30, 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consolidation II: Oct. 1, 2006-Nov. 30, 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consolidation III: Dec. 1, 2009-June 30, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n Transition I: July 1, 2011-Dec. 31, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n Transition II: Jan. 1, 2015- to be determined<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Army details rules for bronze service star wear with the Afghanistan Campaign Medal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":85736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":70,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[7,12,70],"tags":[],"coauthors":[599],"class_list":["post-47440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-transition","category-news","category-your-army"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"DM34PTARLFAEHLFUZZ44OHAPQ4","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-army\/2015\/03\/05\/rules-for-wearing-service-stars-with-afghanistan-medal\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n