Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award Medal

Awarded to any Air Force civilian employees having performed their assigned duties for at least one year in an exemplary manner, with a reasonable degree of command-wide mission impact, setting a record of individual achievement and serving as an incentive to others to improve the quality and quantity of their work performance; exercise unusual initiative in devising new and improved work methods and procedures that resulted in a substantial savings in manpower, time, materials, or other items of expense; improving safety or health of employees; improving morale of workers in a unit which resulted in improvement of work performance and esprit de corps.