[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 2 (Monday, January 18, 1993)]
[Page 33]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12830--Establishing the Military Outstanding Volunteer 
Service Medal

 January 9, 1993

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and as Commander in Chief of 
the Armed Forces, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. There is hereby established a Military Outstanding 
Volunteer Service Medal, with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances, 
for award by the Secretary of Defense or, with respect to the Coast 
Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, the Secretary 
of Transportation. Members of the Armed Forces of the United States 
(including Reserve components) who perform outstanding volunteer service 
to the civilian community of a sustained, direct, and consequential 
nature are eligible for the medal.
    Sec. 2. The Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal and ribbons 
and appurtenances thereto shall be of appropriate design approved by the 
Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe 
regulations to govern the award and wear of the Military Outstanding 
Volunteer Service Medal. The regulations shall place the Military 
Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal in order of precedence immediately 
after the Humanitarian Service Medal.
    Sec. 3. No more than one award of the Military Outstanding Volunteer 
Service Medal may be made to any one person, but for each subsequent act 
justifying such an award, a suitable device may be awarded to be worn 
with that medal as prescribed by appropriate regulations issued by the 
Secretary of Defense.
    Sec. 4. The Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal may be 
awarded posthumously, and when so awarded, may be presented to such 
representatives of the deceased as may be deemed appropriate by the 
Secretary of Defense or, in the case of a member of the Coast Guard when 
it is not operating as a service in the Navy, the Secretary of 
Transportation.
                                                   George Bush
The White House,
January 9, 1993.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 2:11 p.m., January 11, 
1993]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on January 11, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
January 13.