{"id":173237,"date":"2025-08-25T09:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=173237"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:23:17","slug":"new-award-for-mexican-border-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=173237","title":{"rendered":"New Award for Mexican Border Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-173240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/medal.jpg?resize=158%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/medal.jpg?resize=158%2C300&amp;ssl=1 158w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/medal.jpg?resize=175%2C333&amp;ssl=1 175w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/medal.jpg?resize=768%2C1461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/medal.jpg?resize=807%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 807w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/medal.jpg?w=946&amp;ssl=1 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Mexican Border Service Medal<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Pentagon releases design for Mexican Border Defense Medal<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>The new award uses the same design and ribbon as the Mexican Border Service Medal from 1918.<\/em><br \/>\nNicholas Slayton<\/strong><br \/>\nFour days after confirming that it was creating a new medal for troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border, the Department of Defense released the first look for the award.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon released the first look at the new Mexican Border Defense Medal today. The release follows the establishment of the new award, outlined in an Aug. 13 memo by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The award goes to troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border supporting operations by Customs and Border Protection. The new medal replaces the Armed Forces Service Medal, which had been authorized for the same mission in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Aug. 13 memo was posted on military social media accounts last week but the Pentagon only confirmed its authenticity on Aug. 18. No design details or images of the award were released at the time. Hegseth posted on X on Aug. 22 that the new Mexico Border Defense Medal would be the \u201csame mold, same ribbon\u201d as the 1918 Mexican Border Service Medal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-173238 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rack.jpg?resize=300%2C239&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rack.jpg?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rack.jpg?resize=418%2C333&amp;ssl=1 418w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rack.jpg?resize=768%2C612&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rack.jpg?resize=1536%2C1225&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rack.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nTime to update the old ribbon rack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican Border Service Medal Pentagon releases design for Mexican Border Defense Medal The new award uses the same design and ribbon as the Mexican Border Service Medal from 1918. Nicholas Slayton Four days after confirming that it was creating a new medal for troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border, the Department of Defense released the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":173240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/medal.jpg?fit=946%2C1800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-J49","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}