A bill to provide for the establishment of campaign medals to be awarded to members of the Armed Forces who participate in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Directs the President to establish separate campaign medals to recognize service by members of the armed forces in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2262 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  2d Session
                                 S. 2262

 To provide for the establishment of campaign medals to be awarded to 
   members of the Armed Forces who participate in Operation Enduring 
                  Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 31, 2004

  Mr. Bingaman (for himself, Mr. Inhofe, Ms. Landrieu, and Mr. Lugar) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the establishment of campaign medals to be awarded to 
   members of the Armed Forces who participate in Operation Enduring 
                  Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MILITARY CAMPAIGN MEDALS TO RECOGNIZE SERVICE IN OPERATION 
              ENDURING FREEDOM AND OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM.

    (a) Requirement.--The President shall establish a campaign medal 
specifically to recognize service by members of the Armed Forces in 
Operation Enduring Freedom and a separate campaign medal specifically 
to recognize service by members of the Armed Forces in Operation Iraqi 
Freedom.
    (b) Eligibility.--Subject to such limitations as may be prescribed 
by the President, eligibility for a campaign medal established pursuant 
to subsection (a) shall be set forth in uniform regulations to be 
prescribed by the Secretaries of the military departments and approved 
by the Secretary of Defense or in regulations to be prescribed by the 
Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it 
is not operating as a service in the Navy.
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