Editing Armed Forces Service Medal (section)

{{short description|Award of the United States military}}
{{Infobox award
|name=Armed Forces Service Medal
|image=Armed Forces Service Medal.png
|image_size=115px
|caption='''[[Obverse and reverse|Obverse]]'''
|presenter=the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodm/134833v2_dodm_2016.pdf |title=Issuances |date=2016 |website=www.esd.whs.mil |format=PDF |access-date=2018-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912013545/http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodm/134833v2_dodm_2016.pdf |archive-date=2017-09-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]]
|type=Service medal
|eligibility=U.S. military personnel
|established=January 11, 1996
|awarded_for=Participating in a designated U.S. military operation that did not encounter foreign armed opposition or imminent hostile action
|status= Active
|firstawarded={{start date|1996}} (retroactive to June 1, 1992)
|lastawarded=
|total_awarded=
|total_awarded_posthumously=
|total_recipients=
|individual=
|higher=[[Korea Defense Service Medal]]<ref name=AR600-8-22>{{cite web|title=Army Regulation 600–8–22 Military Awards |url=https://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/r600_8_22.pdf |publisher=Army Publishing Directorate |access-date=24 January 2016 |page=17 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722181345/http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/r600_8_22.pdf |archive-date=22 July 2011 }}</ref>
|lower=[[Humanitarian Service Medal]]<ref name=AR600-8-22/>
|same=
|image2= [[File:Armed Forces Service Medal ribbon.svg|border|106px]]
|caption2= [[Service ribbon]]
}}

The '''Armed Forces Service Medal''' ('''AFSM''') is a [[Awards and decorations of the United States military|military award]] of the [[United States military]] that was created on January 11, 1996, by [[Bill Clinton|President Bill Clinton]] under {{ExecutiveOrder|12985}}.  The AFSM is a deployed service medal that is presented to those service members who engage in "significant activity" for which no other U.S. campaign or service medal is authorized.