[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 155 (Friday, August 9, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 41483-41484]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20531]


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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Executive Order 13013 of August 6, 1996

                
Amending Executive Order No. 10163, the Armed 
                Forces
                Reserve Medal

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States, 
                including my authority as Commander in Chief of the 
                Armed Forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered 
                that Executive Order No. 10163, as amended, is further 
                amended by striking out sections 3 and 4 and inserting 
                in lieu thereof the following new sections 3 and 4:

                    ``3. The Armed Forces Reserve Medal may be awarded 
                to members or former members of the reserve components 
                of the Armed Forces of the United States who meet one 
                or more of the following three criteria.
                       a. The member has completed a total of 10 years 
                of honorable service in one or more of such reserve 
                components, including annual active duty and inactive 
                duty training as required by appropriate regulations, 
                provided that (1) such 10 years of service was 
                performed within a period of 12 consecutive years, (2) 
                such service shall not include service in a regular 
                component of the armed forces, including the Coast 
                Guard, but (A) service in a reserve component that is 
                concurrent, in whole or in part, with service in a 
                regular component of the armed forces shall be included 
                in computing the required 10 years of reserve service, 
                and (B) any period of time during which reserve service 
                is interrupted by service in a regular component of the 
                armed forces shall be excluded in computing, and shall 
                not be considered a break in, the said period of 12 
                consecutive years, and (3) such service shall not 
                include service for which the Naval Reserve Medal or 
                the Marine Corps Reserve Medal has been or may be 
                awarded.
                       b. On or after August 1, 1990, the member was 
                called to active duty and served under sections 
                12301(a), 12302, 12304, 12406 (formerly sections 
                672(a), 673, 673b, 3500, and 8500) and Chapter 15 of 
                title 10, United States Code, or, in the case of the 
                United States Coast Guard Reserve, section 712 of title 
                14, United States Code.
                       c. On or after August 1, 1990, the member 
                volunteered and served on active duty in support of 
                specific U.S. military operations or contingencies 
                designated by the Secretary of Defense.
                    4. Not more than one Armed Forces Reserve Medal may 
                be awarded to any one person. The member shall receive 
                the medal with the distinctive design of the reserve 
                component with which the person served at the time of 
                award or in which such person last served. The medal is 
                awarded with the appropriate appurtenance that denotes 
                the manner in which the award was earned, either 
                through completion of 10 years of service, 
                mobilization, or volunteering for, and serving on, 
                active duty in support of operations or contingencies 
                designated by the Secretary of Defense. For each 
                succeeding mobilization, volunteering for, and serving 
                on, active duty in support of operations or 
                contingencies, or 10-year period of service as above 
                described,

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                and a suitable appurtenance may be awarded, to be worn 
                with the medal in accordance with appropriate 
                regulations.''

                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                     August 6, 1996.

[FR Doc. 96-20531
Filed 8-8-96; 8:45 am]
Billing code 3195-01-P