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      Peacekeeping Operations

      in Modern Campaigns and Conflicts

      Posted · Edited by Antonio Prieto

      This Merit Badge, is also granted

      Merit Badge for Peacekeeping Operations

      Created in 1993, for their concession to the military, members of the Guardia Civil and civilian

      With bars for each mission some with the name in english and also in spanish eg. ENDURING FREEDOM = LIBERTAD DURADERA

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      Peacekeeping Operations

      in Modern Campaigns and Conflicts

      Posted · Edited by Antonio Prieto

      Peacekeeping Operations Medals and Decorations

      These missions of the Armed Forces can demand the unfolding of activities with external projection, in the mark of a cooperation with other states or in the breast of international organizations.

      We can include the awards for he NATO, UN, OSCE, EU (PESD), etc organizations

      As always, any contribution of the members will be good to enrich this thread, because strange it is the country that at the momment doesn't have an or several recompenses to reward these missions.

      I will begin with the Spanish items

      CROSSES OF THE MILITARY MERIT, OF THE NAVAL MERIT AND OF THE AERONAUTICAL MERIT (BLUE DIVISION)

      With regulation approved in 2003, they are granted in category of GRAND CROSS, for general's and for the civil personnel that completes certain conditions and of CROSS, for the rest of the military and civil personnel.

      They are good to reward actions, facts or extraordinary services that are carried out in derived operations of a command of the United Nations or in the frame of other international organizations, should be based in some of the following suppositions:

      - Those that show, according to the cases, military value, command, serenity or initiative peacekeeping operations when they are developed in circumstances of risk unaware to the confrontation with hostile forces or that they are about impeding the execution of the commended mission.

      - Those that credit an intelligent and effective acting of those made specific that they correspond to the forces in such operations, so they constitute an extraordinary merit appreciated by the control.

      The Grand Cross, consists on a plaque of blasts in gold seventy millimeters of longitude, with the cross -described below- in the center, fringed of two lions and two castles in silver, and in a silk band, of the same colors that the ribbon of which pending the crosses, of a hundred millimeters wide, uniting in their ends with a knot of the same ribbon, with the cross, in gold, and subject to the band for a golden hoop.

      The Cross, consists on a simple cross of four right arms white enameled with blue rectangles in the arms, with the edge in gold, of forty millimeters of longitude among their opposed arms. On the superior arm of the cross he rests a rectangle in gold that takes the date of the concession, finished off by a royal crown, also in gold.

      Pending on a silk ribbon 30 x 10 mm

      - Military Merit: white with a red central stripe and blue edges.

      - Naval Merit: yellow with blue and red edges.

      - Military Merit: white with blue and red edges.

      The ribbon bars of these awards are constituted by the ribbon in the colors of the described crosses, of thirty millimeters of longitude for ten millimeters wide, mounted on a frame of golden metal, and framed by two lateral bars of this metal, of two millimeters wide and twelve millimeters long each one. On the ribbon and in their center, he goes incorporate the royal crown in gold, for Grand Cross

      Also exist a 1st type 1995-2003, and other since 2003. The only difference is the Coat of Arms of the centerl of the crosses. Tha Naval Merit not changes

      Military Merit crosses, blue division 1995-2003 and 2003-to date

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      Estonia. Modern military medals.

      in Northern European & Baltic States

      Posted

      Thank you for the previous posts. I dont known these medals

      For see the ribbon sheets of the Estonian Medal:

      www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/cintaseu.htm and check le letter "E" for Estonia

      The decorations of the Republic of Estonia were established or reestablished by the Law on Decorations, passed in Riigikogu on 5 May 1994 and 16 May 1995.

      There are six decorations (orders):

      The Cross of St. Mary?s Land (Maarjamaa Rist)

      The Order of the National Coat of Arms;

      The Order of the White Star;

      The Order of the Cross of the Eagle;

      The Order of the Estonian Red Cross;

      Roman Tavast

      http://www.romantavast.ee/

      The Cross of Liberty.

      http://vp1992-2001.vpk.ee/eng/ametitegevus/Teenetemargid.asp

      Estonian Defence Forces

      http://www.mil.ee/index.php?menu=juhtimine...isu=teenetemark

      http://www.mil.ee/index.php?menu=juhtimine...;sisu=taastatud

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      SWITZERLAND

      in Central & Eastern European States

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      Institution of orders and decorations, as well as accepting ones by Swiss citizens is forbidden by Swiss law.

      An exception has been made to decorations for participants of international peace missions.

      In accordance with the Directive of the 10.3.2000 on the delivery and the use of badges of special mission for fulfilled commitments abroad, the use of these badges is allowed "to the military that have been outstanding without interruption in a mission"

      The commitment that gives right to the use of an insginia should have a duration of 150 days.

      Other eventual commitments of smaller duration can be added

      http://www.vbs-ddps.ch/internet/groupgst/e...eace/peace.html

      Rubans (ribbons)

      Three classes of ribbons exist:

      a. Badge of service

      b. Qualification

      c. Badges of commitment

      Any other ribbon that those mentioned can be taken

      The badge of service indicates the number of days of service that the payee has made.

      Him class of the badge shows the experience equally of which takes it

      The delivery conditions is:

      Days of service Insginia class

      90 Badge of benefit of service

      170 With 1 rosette in bronze

      250 With 2 rosettes in bronze

      350 With 3 rosettes in bronze

      450 With 1 rosette in silver

      550 With 2 rosettes in silver

      650 With 3 rosettes in silver

      750 With 1 rosette in gold

      850 With 2 rosettes in gold

      950 With 3 rosettes in gold

      The distinction is the recognition of the good results that the military one had overcome by means of an exam. Condition them they are regulated by a particular regulation

      Blue ribbons are for marksmanship (pistol and rifle), level 2 with red stripes

      Yellow/Gold ribbons are level 1 only and are for achievement in instruction

      Green is for sport (level 1, 2 and competition sport is red)

      Only the highest level of a ribbon can be worn. They are worn on this order : high mountain (guide) / marksmanship / instruction / sport.

      They are preceded by the badge of service and ribbons for foreign service

      The badge of commitment indicates that the one behaved had participated in defined commitment, in a certain period, in Switzerland or abroad

      The ribbons received by missions of the UN and of OSCE sont equally as badge of commitment

      The ribbons are taken centered to 0,5 cm above the right pocket of the chest.

      Can take a maximum of 9 ribbons, according to these approaches:

      a. Badge of service (max. 1 ribbon)

      b. Qualification:

      1. Of high mountain

      2. Of shot with personal weapon

      3. Of instruction;

      4. Of sports;

      c. Badges of commitment:

      1. In Switzerland (max. 1 ribbon);

      2. Abroad

      3. Missions UN / OSCE (max. 1 ribbon of each).

      The level can only be taken but high reached of each class of ribbon

      The new ribbons worn on the "A" dress were prededed by something totally new in the Swiss army which could be nicknamed "days of service ribbon".

      In the swiss army the majority of the people involved are non professionnal ("milice"). The young swiss has to spend a certain number of days in the army.

      The total for a private (and for the private first class and the lance corporal) is 260 days of service.

      For a sergeant, it is 400 days; a master sergeant 430 days and for quartermaster sergeant/senior sergeant major 500 days.

      It has been decided that the experience gained during all these days of service will be indicated in the way of a special ribbon worn on the "A" dress before all other ribbons.

      This ribbon is pinned on your tunic after your initial 90 days of service

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      ARMENIA

      in Rest of the World: Militaria & History

      Posted

      Ministry Of Defence of The Republic Of Armenia Official Web Site

      http://www.mil.am/arm/?page=22

      At this time only in armenian

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