Australian Service Medal

Australian Service Medal
Obverse (left), reverse (right) and ribbon (bottom) of medal with SINAI clasp
Awarded by Australia
Type	Campaign Medal
Eligibility	Australian Defence Force personnel
Awarded for	Service in non-warlike operations
Status	Currently awarded
Statistics
Established	13 September 1988
Total awarded	38,681 as at 30 June 2010
Order of Wear
Next (higher)	Australian General Service Medal Korea
Next (lower)	Rhodesia Medal
Related	Australian Service Medal 1945–1975

The Australian Service Medal is an Australian military decoration. It was authorized 13 September 1988 to recognise prescribed service in peacekeeping and non-warlike operations. It is awarded with a clasp to denote the prescribed operation and subsequent awards of the medal are made in the form of additional clasps. The Australian Service Medal 1945–1975 recognises non-warlike service prior to February 1975.

Personnel who receive this medal may also be entitled to receive a service or campaign medal from an international organisation or the host country, if they meet the eligibility criteria for those medals. These are treated as foreign medals in the Australian system, and if approved for wear on service uniforms, are worn after Australian medals in the order they are received. Recipients of the ASM may be authorised to wear up to two further medals from an international organisation and a host nation for the same period of service.

Some of these medals have been granted a blanket authority for all recipients to wear. Others are approved on an individual basis.