An Act to provide for the presentation of a medal to persons who have served as members of a U.S. expedition to Antarctica
PL 86-600 (H.R.3923), enacted 07/07/1960

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Public Law 86-600 
AN ACT 
To provide for the presentation of a medal to persons wlio have served as 
members of a United States expedition to Antarctica. 
July 7, I960 
[H. R. 3923] 
Be it exacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Am,e7ica in Congress assembled, That each person 
who serves, or has served, as a member of a United States expedition 
to Antarctica between January 1, 1946, and a date to be subsequently 
established by the Secretary of Defense shall be presented a medal 
iv^ith accompanying ribbons and appurtenances, under regulations to 
be prescribed by the Secretary of the Military Departments under 
whose cognizance the expedition falls, such regulations to be subject 
to the approval of the Secretary of Defense. 
The regulations may 
include provisions for award to civilian as well as uniformed mem-
bers and for posthumous awards. 
Members of the Armed Forces of the United States who are 
presented the medal referred to in the first section of this Act may 
wear such medal and the ribbon symbolic of such medal in such man-
ner as shall be prescribed by regulations approved by the Secretary of 
Defense. 
Approved July 7, 1960. 
Antarctic expedi-
tion. 
Medals for mem-
bers. 
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