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Summary

Washington Distinguished Service Medal

Prerequisites: This decoration shall be awarded to anyone who distinguishes himself/herself by exceptionally meritorious service to the State of Washington in a duty of great responsibility. The performance must be such as to merit recognition for service that is clearly exceptional and of a conspicuously higher degree than appropriate for award of the WSLM.

Specifications and Devices. The medal is bronze and suspended from a green ribbon with one gold stripe at each end. Oak leaf clusters are used to denote subsequent awards.

Licensing

The graphic is a representation of an award or decoration of the United States military. It is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from a U.S. military award. As a work of the U.S. federal government , the image is in the public domain in the United States.

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