Editing Armed Forces Service Medal (section)

== Approved operations ==
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|+ style="background:darkGrey;"| <span style="color:white;">Approved U.S. Military Operations for the Armed Forces Service Medal<ref>{{cite web|title=Armed Forces Service Medal (AFSM) – Authorized Operations|url=https://prhome.defense.gov/Portals/52/AFSM%20Approved%20Operations%20-%202019%2007%2001%20v1.pdf|publisher=Office of the Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness|access-date=22 August 2019}}</ref></span>
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! Area or Operation
! Start Date
! End Date
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|[[Operation Maritime Monitor]]
|1 June 1992
|1 December 1992
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|[[Operation Provide Promise]]
|2 June 1992
|15 February 1996
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|[[Operation Deny Flight]]
|12 April 1993
|2 December 1995
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|[[Operation Sharp Guard]]
|15 June 1993
|20 September 1996
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|Task Force Able Sentry in support of [[United Nations Preventive Deployment Force]]
|12 July 1993
|31 March 1999
|-
|[[Operation Uphold Democracy]]
|1 April 1995
|31 January 2000
|-
|[[Operation Joint Endeavor]]
|20 November 1995
|19 December 1996
|-
|[[Operation Provide Comfort]]
|1 December 1995
|31 December 1996
|-
|[[Operation Joint Guard]]
|20 December 1996
|20 June 1998
|-
|[[Operation Joint Forge]]
|21 June 1998
|2 December 2004
|-
|[[Hurricane Katrina]] and [[Hurricane Rita]] relief efforts
|27 August 2005 
|27 February 2006
|- 
|[[Operation Jump Start]]
|15 May 2006
|15 July 2008
|-
|[[Operation Unified Response]]
|14 January 2010
|1 June 2010
|-
|[[Operation United Assistance]]
|16 September 2014
|30 June 2015
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|[[List of U.S. Department of Defense code names#Code names N–Z|Operation Oaken Steel]]
|12 July 2016
|26 January 2017
|-
|DoD Support to Customs and Border Protection including [[Operation Faithful Patriot]]
|7 April 2018
|TBD
|-
|[[COVID-19|COVID-19 response]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Troops Who Responded to COVID-19 Crisis Are Now Eligible for These Medals|url=https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/07/02/medals-approved-troops-who-responded-covid-19-crisis.html|publisher=UMilitary.com|access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref>
|31 January 2020
|1 June 2023
|-
|[[Capital Response I & II and the Presidential Inauguration]]
|6 January 2021
|23 May 2021
|-
|[[Operation Allies Refuge]] (OAR) & Allies Welcome (OAW)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230504032259/https://www.hrc.army.mil/milper/23-093/] army.mil] Approval of the AFSM- OAR issued 16 March 2023</ref>
|31 August 2021
|1 April 2022
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As an exception to Department of Defense policy, the [[Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal]] and the Armed Forces Service Medal may be awarded concurrently for Operations Joint Guard and Joint Endeavor. While Operation Sharp Guard was conducted during the Bosnia War, the Veterans of Foreign Wars refuses to accept Veterans of the Bosnian War who received the Armed Forces Service Medal.<ref>{{cite web |date=22 September 2023 |title=Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (AFEM) – Authorized Operations |url=https://prhome.defense.gov/Portals/52/Documents/MRA_Docs/OEPM/AFSM%20Approved%20Ops%20-%202023%2009%2022.pdf?ver=7mNRr1-LeL0EUHYj9yE2pA%3d%3d |url-status=live |access-date=22 September 2023 |website=prhome.defense.gov |publisher=United States Department of Defense}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Public Law 105-85 Sec. 572 |url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-105publ85/html/PLAW-105publ85.htm|publisher=Government Printing Office|access-date=21 February 2017}}</ref>