Eligibility ends December 31, 2022. Image: JGGRMSON/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffService members will no longer be awarded the National Defense Service Medal (NDSM) after Dec. 31. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made the decision late last month.
“Termination is based on the United States no longer conducting large-scale combat operations in designated geographic locations as the result of the terrorist attacks on the United States that occurred September 11, 2001,” Austin wrote in a department-wide memo, as reported by Military Times.
Active duty and active reservists are eligible for the NDSM for service during any of four time periods, the latest running through the end of the calendar year.
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