(a) Active
Duty Personnel: 12-months consecutive or accumulated duty at overseas
shore base
duty station.
(b)
Inactive Reservists: 30 consecutive days or 45 cumulative days
of active duty for training, annual training (AT), or TAD at overseas
duty stations,
including deployed units and units homeported overseas. Travel
time
and weekend training does not count. Note: For overseas domiciled
Inactive Reservists, 30 consecutive days of AT or IDT must be completed,
or
a
combination of 45 cumulative days of AT or IDT in a billet
with an established Overseas
Naval Reserve Unit or as a member of the Overseas Peacetime (Contributory)
Support Program (for accounting purposes, two IDT periods equal
1 day of AT).
(c) Overseas is defined
as duty outside the United States (Mainland Alaska and Hawaii are not
eligible duty stations)
at
shore
base commands.
Service in Adak, Alaska does qualify. For active duty personnel,
duty
on
board CONUS-based, deploying ships, squadrons, units or with
the FMF does not qualify.
(3) Initial and subsequent
awards. Qualifying service
performed
between 15 August 1974 and 1 January 1979 will be credited
only toward the initial award of the ribbon. Subse quent to 1 January 1979, one award
for each qualifying period.
(4) Restrictions and
Waivers. An individual cannot receive the SSDR and OSR for the same
period if stationed at a Marine
Corps Unit; overseas Navy commands may receive both awards
after 01 October 1999. In addition, the same period of time cannot
be used to earn eligibility
for both the Naval Reserve Sea Service Ribbon and the Overseas
Service Ribbon.
(5) For active duty
personnel not more than 14-days may be waived.
For inactive reservists - no waiver. For posthumous awards,
the time requirements may be waived by CNO/CMC in posthumous cases
on a case by case basis.
(6)
Personnel serving with the FMF, regular or reserve,
do not qualify for this award.
(7) Awarding Authority.
Commanding officers.
(8) Subsequent
Awards. A 3/16-inch bronze star will denote subsequent
awards. NOTE: Reservists who were recalled to active duty,
such as
for Operation DESERT STORM, must
fulfill requirements for active duty personnel.
Any period of more than 90 days is considered
active duty.
