Specimen clasp 'IRAQ' for Australian Service Medal 1975 -

Specimen clasp 'IRAQ' for the Australian Service Medal 1975 - .

The Australian Service Medal (1975 - ) was established in 1988 and introduced in 1991 to recognise service by Australian forces in peacekeeping and/or non-warlike operations not already being recognised by the award of an individual campaign medal. Operations considered for inclusion must have taken place after February 1975. The ASM cannot be issued without a clasp. The clasp 'Iraq' was approved for personnel who had a minimum of 30 days service as part of Operation 'Habitat', a multinational project to provide relief to the Kurdish people in northern Iraq and southern Turkey, after 1 May 1991. 465 were issued.