Gallambrian Operational Service Medal

Gallambrian Operational Service Medal
Awarded by Gallambria
Type	Campaign medal
Eligibility	Military - Willingly and ably perform their work as part of an operation or within other specific hazardous environments and conditions. Civilian - Defence civilians, and other classes of civilian who are employed on HM Armed Forces operations under the provisions of the Armed Forces Act 1982.
Awarded for	Service on declared hazardous operations
Status	Currently awarded.
Clasps	"Accumulated service device" for military awards Clasps for operations for civilian awards
Statistics
Established	16 September 2014
Order of Wear
Next (higher)	General Service Medal (2000)
Next (lower)	Gallambrian Special Service Medal

The Gallambrian Operational Service Medal is a campaign medal established on 16 September 2014 to recognise service by HM Armed Forces personnel on designated hazardous operations. It may also be awarded to civilians who service alongside the Armed Forces on designated operations under specific conditions.

The medal is issued to military personnel with a different ribbon for each designated operation. When issued to civilians, a standard ribbon is issued with clasps issued for each designated operation.

Overview

The Gallambrian Operational Service Medal is a campaign medal established by Royal Warrant on 16 September 2014. This campaign medal was instituted as general replacement for the Gallambrian Active Service Medal and the General Service Medal, as well as provide recognition for operational service that does not warrant a specific campaign medal. It is awarded as either a Military or Civilian variant.

Military variant

The military variant of the medal has a standard medal design, ribbons vary by operation, or operation type. An accumulated service device will be awarded for subsequent qualifying service by Armed Forces personnel where they undertake further service on an operation for which they have already been awarded the Gallambrian Operational Service Medal.

Ribbons

To date, five ribbons have been established:

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  - Bashan Truce Supervision ribbon - awarded for service on declared truce supervision operations
• 
  - Border Protection ribbon - awarded for service on declared border protection operations
• 
  - Counter-Piracy ribbon - awarded for service on declared counter-piracy operations
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  - Expeditionary Forces ribbon - awarded for service on operations where no specific campaign medal is awarded
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  - TRIDENT ribbon - awarded for service on TRIDENT-led war-like operations

Civilian variant

The Gallambrian Operational Service Medal (Civilian) was established to allow for recognition of Defence and Other Government Civilians and Public Servants, who were employed under the provisions of the Armed Forces Act of 1982, in order to support the operations of a deployed military force in a declared area of operations. The civilian variant uses the same medal design as the military variant, but is awarded with a unique ribbon, and a clasp(s) denoting the declared operation.

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  - Civilian ribbon - awarded for civilian service on declared operations.

Variants for declared operations - Military

Bashan Truce Supervision

The Bashan Truce Supervision variant is awarded to HM Armed Forces personnel who have served on declared Truce Supervision operations since 2015.

Declared operations

The declared operations are:

Operation	From	To	Notes
Op Citadel	1 January 2015	ongoing

Qualifying requirements

Members of HM Armed Forces must have served either an aggregate of 30 days either deployed or force assigned as a member of one of the declared operations, or were deployed or force assigned to a declared operation and completed 30 sorties from a unit assigned to the operation, so long as the sorties were conducted over a period of not less than 30 aggregate days with no more than one sortie counted per day.

Members must also have been:

• Deployed at sea directly support a declared operations
• Deployed on land or in the air, dedicated in support of a declared operation
• Deployed forward to exclusively support a declared operation

Exclusions

Members are not eligible for an award of the GOSM-BTS where an entitlement exists for another Gallambrian medal for the same deployment.

Members are not eligible for an award of the GOSM-BTS where the member was part of:

• Headquarters Staff at Strategic Command
• Headquarters Staff at Joint Operations Command
• Members visiting the Area of Operations (AO) not in support of declared operations.
• Members of Regal or Vice-Regal Staff

Border Protection

The Border Protection variant is awarded to HM Armed Forces personnel who have service on declared Border Protection operations since 2012.

Declared operations

Operation	From	To	Notes
Op Guardian	1 January 2012	16 December 2014
Op Protector	16 December 2014	25 March 2019
Op Defender	25 March 2019	ongoing

Qualifying requirements

Personnel who served on naval vessels, aircraft, or Regional Force Surveillance Unit patrols whilst assigned to any of these operations may be eligible.

Members of HM Armed Forces must have served either an aggregate of 30 days either deployed or force assigned as a member of one of the declared operations, or were deployed or force assigned to a declared operation and completed 30 sorties from a unit assigned to the operation, so long as the sorties were conducted with no more than one sortie counted per day.

Members must also have been:

• Deployed at sea directly support a declared operations
• Deployed on land or in the air, dedicated in support of a declared operation
• Deployed forward to exclusively support a declared operation

Exclusions

Members are not eligible for an award of the GOSM-BP where an entitlement exists to another Gallambrian medal for the same deployment.

Members are not eligible for an award of the GOSM-BP where the member was part of:

• Headquarters Staff at Strategic Command
• Headquarters Staff at Joint Operations Command
• Headquarters Staff at Regional Force Surveillance Group
• Ministry of Defence staff at Border Force Headquarters
• Base maintainers and support personnel
• Members visiting the Area of Operations (AO) not in support of declared operations.
• Members of Regal or Vice-Regal Staff

Counter-Piracy

The Counter Piracy variant is awarded to HM Armed Forces personnel who have service on declared counter-piracy and maritime securtiy operations since 2015.

Declared operations

Operation	From	To	Notes
Op Adlantic Shield	1 January 2015	ongoing
Op Adisi Protector	15 July 2017	ongoing

Qualifying requirements

Personnel who served on naval vessels or aircraft whilst assigned to any of these operations may be eligible.

Members of HM Armed Forces must have served either an aggregate of 30 days either deployed or force assigned as a member of one of the declared operations, or were deployed or force assigned to a declared operation and completed 30 sorties from a unit assigned to the operation, so long as the sorties were conducted with no more than one sortie counted per day.

Members must also have been:

• Deployed at sea directly support a declared operations
• Deployed in the air, dedicated in support of a declared operation
• Deployed forward to exclusively support a declared operation

Exclusions

Members are not eligible for an award of the GOSM-BP where an entitlement exists to another Gallambrian medal for the same deployment.

Members are not eligible for an award of the GOSM-BP where the member was part of:

• Headquarters Staff at Strategic Command
• Headquarters Staff at Joint Operations Command
• Base maintainers and support personnel
• Members visiting the Area of Operations (AO) not in support of declared operations.

Clasps for declared operations - Civilian

When the GOSM-CIV variant was declared by the Government, a number of declared operations and determinations were made for the award of Clasps.

General conditions for all Clasps include

• Awarded to a civilian who is/was employed by the Ministry of Defence on a declared operations for a period of not less than an aggregate of 30 days.

Specific conditions for each Clasp include

Theatre	Operation	Declared period		Clasp name	Notes
		From	Too
Bashan	Citadel	1 January 2015	ongoing	BASHAN
Various	Guardian	1 January 2012	16 December 2014	BORDER
Various	Protector	16 December 2014	25 March 2019	BORDER
Various	Defender	25 March 2019	ongoing	BORDER
Verde Sea	Goalkeeper	1 April 2018	30 April 2018	TRIDENT
Cussia	Paladin	21 October 2019	ongoing	TRIDENT
Ceris	Breastplate	12 January 2020	1 June 2021	CERIS