the National Defense Service Medal is going back into retirement on Dec. 31. The award ― affectionately known as the “pizza stain,” which all troops serving since 9/11 have been able to pin ...

Sailors honored: Minister of National Defense Kim Tae-young, right, pins a government medal on an officer who, with other seamen, had a gun battle with a North Korean patrol boat last month near ...

Sometimes, it is the little things that mark big changes. In this case, a bit of red, yellow, blue and white cloth that just about everyone who has been in the U.S. military since 2001 has ...

The National Defense Service Medal, most recently available to service members to signify duty during the war on terrorism, is heading once again for retirement. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ...

the Defense Department has decided to halt conferral of the National Defense Service Medal, effective Dec. 31. Army Maj. Charlie Dietz, a Pentagon spokesman, said Wednesday that the authorization ...

culminating in the rainbow-accented Victory Medal (fifth row, right), and then Vietnam, where he flew 127 missions and earned the National Defense Service Medal (bottom row, center). The ribbons ...

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian pinned the Legion of Honor on Staff Sgt. Greggory Swarz during the Paris Air Show and presented four other airmen the National Medal of Defense on Monday ...

The military service of two area men was honored recently with the presentation of National Defense Medals by the Judah ... served as installation officer. Pins denoting 25 years of continued ...

SEOUL — South Korea’s minister of national defense was awarded a U.S. medal in a ceremony Friday at U.S. Army Garrison-Yongsan. U.S. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow and Gen. B.B. Bell ...