Air Force Special Duty Ribbon


The Air Force Special Duty Ribbon is a ribbon that is only awarded by the United States Air Force. Established 4 September 2014 by the Secretary of the Air Force,

Criteria

The Air Force Special Duty Ribbon is awarded to those service members who complete a special duty assignment, or are awarded a special duty Air Force Specialty Code or special duty assignment. The award is for service after 4 September 2014, and cannot be retroactively awarded. The following are qualifying special duty assignments:
The Air Force Special Duty Ribbon is a symmetrically striped ribbon wide. At the outside edges of the ribbon are stripes of graphite blue and silver gray both wide. Next is a broader stripe wide of ultramarine blue, bordered on the inside by a stripe of silver gray next to a stripe of scarlet, both wide. In the center of the ribbon is a white stripe wide bisected by an ultramarine blue stripe wide.
Subsequent awards of the Air Force Special Duty Ribbon are denoted by oak leaf clusters.