Bar, General Service Medal-ISAF/FAIS excluded-retail only Originally designated the Conspicuous Service

Originally designated the Conspicuous Service Cross (1901-1914)

Royal Marines and the Dominion and Colonial naval forces

and having applied the 180-day break period

the Suez Canal and those parts of the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea that are west of sixty-eight degrees East longitude and north of five degrees South latitude

Bar, General Service Medal-ISAF/FAIS excluded-retail only Originally designated the Conspicuous ServiceCanadian contribution to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan for at least 30 days cumulative between 24 April 2003 and 31 July 2009, in the theatre of operations which consisted of the political boundaries and airspace of Afghanistan. In 2009, the system of bars was revised such that ribbons denoted specific theatres or services and bars recognized multiple rotations.