Eye In The Sky
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- Reaction score
- 3,780
- Points
- 1,160
eliminator said:Did the existing GCS/GSM-SWA not cover the territory of the Op IMPACT AOR?
General Campaign Star - SOUTH-WEST ASIA (GCS-SWA)
in the theatre of operations consisting of the political boundaries of Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, and those parts of the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea that are west of sixty-eight degrees East longitude and north of five degrees South latitude, as well as the airspace above those areas
General Campaign Star - EXPEDITION (GCS-EXP)
- within the political boundaries and airspace of Iraq; and/or
- within the political boundaries of Syria, its airspace and territorial waters
Why award the "EXP" versions of medals when there already were medals in the system?
The GCS-Exp had already been identified for service inside Iraq before IMPACT; it wasn't created because of it. Before IMPACT, though, there was only a handful of them awarded; 6 or so IIRC. Eligible service pre-IMPACT was from as early as 1 January 2003.