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JSP 761
- The Cadet Forces Medal (CFM) is available to recognise 12 years’ service as an officer or uniformed adult instructor in the Combined Cadet Force, Sea Cadet Corps, Army Cadet Force, and Air Training Corps. Clasps are available for additional periods of 6 years. Recommendations for the Cadet Forces Medal and clasps are to be made in accordance with JSP 814, Policy and Regulations for MOD Sponsored Cadet Organisations.
JSP 814
14.5 The Cadet Forces Medal
14.5.1. Introduction. The Cadet Forces Medal (CFM) and Clasps are awards to officers and uniformed adult instructors in recognition of long service of proved capacity in the CF (SCC, ACF, ATC and CCF). The award of the CFM is governed generally by Royal Warrant dated 19 November 2001. It carries no rights to the use of post-nominal letters.
14.5.2. The medal is circular in form, is in cupro-nickel, and bears on the obverse the Crowned Effigy of the Sovereign and on the reverse the inscription ‘The Cadet Forces Medal’ and a representation of a flaming torch. The medal is suspended from a bar and the name of the recipient is inscribed around the rim. It is to be worn on the left breast suspended from a ribbon one-and-a-quarter inches in width, of dark green bordered by narrow stripes of dark blue and red and red and light blue, edged with yellow, with the dark blue stripe furthest from the left shoulder. In the order in which orders, decorations and medals are to be worn, the CFM is placed immediately after the Queen’s Medal for Champion Shots.
14.5.3. Clasps may be awarded for service subsequent to award of the medal. They are of cupro-nickel and are to be sewn on to the ribbon by which the medal is suspended. Rose emblems denoting the award of each clasp are attached to the ribbon when the ribbon alone is worn. To denote service beyond the award of three clasps (three ‘silver’ roses) the following are to be worn:
a. Four Clasps — One ‘gold’ rose.
b. Five Clasps — One ‘gold’ rose and one ‘silver’ rose.
c. Six Clasps — One ‘gold’ rose and two ‘silver’ roses.
d. Seven Clasps — Two ‘gold’ roses.
Where ‘gold’ and ‘silver’ roses are worn on the same ribbon, the ‘gold’ rose is to be placed furthest from the left shoulder.
14.5.4. Award of the CFM and Clasps is announced in the London Gazette.
14.5.5. Miniatures of the CFM may be worn on appropriate occasions. They are to be provided at private expense.
14.5.6. Eligibility. To be eligible for award of the CFM or Clasp(s) an individual must have served as a commissioned, or appointed officer or as an appointed adult instructor (with warrant or senior non-commissioned officer rank, or equivalent, and wearing uniform) in:
a. The Combined Cadet Force
b. The Sea Cadet Corps.
c. The Army Cadet Force.
d. The Air Training Corps.
and must still be serving at the time that the reckonable qualifying service is completed.
14.5.7. The medal will be awarded in recognition of twelve years’ continuous qualifying service reckoned in accordance with paragraphs 9 — 11 below.
14.5.8. With effect from 1 April 1999, a clasp will be awarded for each six years’ additional qualifying service, not necessarily continuous, in accordance with paragraphs 9 and 10 below. Prior to 1 April 1999, clasps were awarded for each eight years’ additional service. Qualifying service for awards prior to 1 April 1999 is to be reckoned in accordance with the rules at that time.
14.5.9. Qualifying Service. The following will reckon as qualifying service when it meets the continuity rules at paragraph 11:
a. Service after the age of eighteen as provided for in paragraph 6.
b. Service after the age of eighteen as a cadet in any of the CF listed in paragraph 6, up to a maximum of four years’ service.
c. Service, up to a maximum of 6 years, and subject to provision of a certificate of service, in ranks equivalent to those described in paragraph 6 in recognised CF in the Commonwealth, provided that such service shall not have been recognised by an equivalent award.
d. Service, up to a maximum of 3 years, as a commissioned officer or in the ranks, of the Volunteer Reserve Forces of the United Kingdom, including the OTC, University Naval Units and University Air Squadrons, provided that such service shall precede service in the CF and that it shall not have been recognised by award of the Volunteer Reserves Service Medal or any of the awards preceding that medal.
e. Service, up to a maximum of 3 years, as a commissioned officer or in the ranks, in the Regular Forces of the United Kingdom, which has not counted towards the award of any other long service award. Full time service to a maximum of 3 years subsequent to the award of another long service award may be counted.
14.5.10. In no circumstances will service as a cadet under the age of eighteen years, or any form of honorary service, be counted as qualifying service.
14.5.11. Continuity of Service. At the discretion of Service Boards, which may be delegated to Service Medal Boards, the following, though not counted as qualifying service for the CFM, may be considered not to constitute a break in the continuity of service required by paragraph 7:
a. Any break in service which does not exceed six months.
b. Breaks of up to three years in the case of those who, by reason of change in place of residence or change of circumstances in civilian employment, while continuing to reside in the United Kingdom, are unable to continue service with their CF unit.
c. Breaks occasioned by service abroad as may be required by civilian employment provided that the individual has been reposted to a CF unit within three years of return to the United Kingdom.
d. A break of up to three years between leaving with a CF unit anywhere in the Commonwealth and joining a unit in the United Kingdom.
e. A break of not more than three years between serving a unit of the Volunteer Reserves, as described in paragraph 9d and joining a CF unit.
f. Any satisfactory period of service in the Regular Forces of the United Kingdom or Commonwealth or efficient period of service in the Volunteer Reserves of the United Kingdom or Commonwealth, providing that such period of service has not been recognised by any long service or efficiency award and that it interrupts service with the CF. The allowed period not enrolled in a CF will be at the discretion of the relevant Service Board but should not normally exceed a period of twelve months either before or after such Regular or Volunteer Reserve Service.
g. Providing all service is continuous, uniformed service broken by periods of service in a formally appointed, non-uniformed, supervisory capacity, not exceeding three years, may be aggregated for the purpose of determining qualifying for the CFM.