View Award - Starfleet Expeditionary Medal (Five Year Mission)
The Starfleet Expeditionary Medal is awarded to members of Starfleet or other services, civilian or military, who have completed a five-year mission in any single posting or assignment, with continuous service. The medal recognizes service in any capacity during a Starfleet deep-space deployment for a period not less than five years - a substantial milestone which itself marks high achievement in pursuit of Starfleet's most ambitious mission program to explore strange new worlds in the final frontier. The service time must be completed while assigned to a single vessel or station, and service across several successive assignments will reset the time requirement of this award. Partial completion of a five-year mission may instead be recognized by the Meritorious Service Medal.
The Expeditionary Medal was commissioned with the explicit purpose of honouring the pioneering days of Starfleet, where starships and their crews would embark upon long and perilous journeys of exploration to unknown regions, boldly going where no one had gone before. These crews were generally away from their homeworlds for upwards of five years (per Starfleet's standard long-range mission specification) and were often isolated from outside assistance. Such crews were marked by qualities of tenacity, independence, intrepidity, and adventurous spirit which remains the gold-standard for Starfleet and its objectives today. Citations for the Expeditionary Medal should therefore embody these same qualities.
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