Expanding Eligibility for the Defense Meritorious Service Medal
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identifier: "/us/fr/2014-09343"
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title: "Expanding Eligibility for the Defense Meritorious Service Medal"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "2014-09343"
section_name: "Expanding Eligibility for the Defense Meritorious Service Medal"
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currency: "2014-04-23"
last_updated: "2014-04-23"
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document_number: "2014-09343"
document_type: "presidential_document"
fr_citation: "79 FR 22591"
fr_volume: 79
publication_date: "2014-04-23"
agency: "Executive Office of the President"
agencies:
- "Executive Office of the President"
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**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”.
THE WHITE HOUSE,