In October 2001, Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA") for fiscal year 2002, which was signed into law on December 28, 2001 by President George W. Bush. In the NDAA approved by both houses, and signed into law by the president, was a Sense of the Congress resolution that the Secretary of Defense should consider authorizing the issuance of a Campaign medal, to be known as the Cold War Service Medal, to each person who while a member of the Armed Forces served satisfactorily on active duty during the Cold War. The then-Secretary of Defense,
Donald Rumsfeld, did not create such a medal.
It is requested that President Obama, as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, authorize and issue this medal as passed into law by Congress.