Reserve Force Medal

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{{Infobox military award

|name=Reserve Force Medal

|image=120px

90px

|caption=Obverse of medal (with bar) and ribbon

|presenter=Australia

|type= Long Service Medal

|eligibility= Non-commissioned members of the Australian Defence Force Reserves

|awarded_for= a minimum of 15 years "qualifying service", including an assessment of good conduct

|status= Not currently awarded, but additional service bars can still be issued to awardees

|description=

|clasps=for each additional 5 years of service

|established=20 April 1982

|firstawarded=

|lastawarded=

|total_awarded= 12,000{{cite book |title=Medal Yearbook 2013 |year=2013 |publisher=Token |location=Honiton, Devon |isbn=978-1-908-828-00-2 |page=398 }}

|total_awarded_posthumously=

|total_recipients=

|individual=

|precedence_label = Order of Wear

|higher= Reserve Force Decoration (RFD){{cite web|title=The Order of Wearing of Australian Honours and Awards|url=http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/awards/docs/order_of_wearing.pdf|work=It's an Honour |publisher=Australian Government|accessdate=23 January 2013}}

|same=

|lower= Defence Long Service Medal

|related=

|image2=RFM with Rosette.png

|image2_size=90px

|caption2=Ribbon with rosette

}}

The Reserve Force Medal (RFM) is an Australian Military award given for long service by non-commissioned members of the Reserve Forces. It is part of the suite of defence force service awards introduced in 1982, which also included the Defence Force Service Medal (DFSM, for all members of the permanent forces) and the Reserve Force Decoration (RFD, for officers of the Reserve forces).

All three medals were replaced with effect 20 April 1999 with a single medal, the Defence Long Service Medal,{{cite web |url=https://www.defence.gov.au/adf-members-families/honours-awards/medals/australian-awards/long-service-awards/defence-force-service-medal |title=Defence Force Service Medal |publisher=Department of Defence |access-date=13 March 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.defence.gov.au/adf-members-families/honours-awards/medals/australian-awards/long-service-awards/reserve-force-decoration |title=Reserve Force Decoration |publisher=Department of Defence |access-date=13 March 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.defence.gov.au/adf-members-families/honours-awards/medals/australian-awards/long-service-awards/reserve-force-medal |title=Reserve Force Medal |publisher=Department of Defence |access-date=13 March 2022}} which is now awarded to all permanent and reserve members irrespective of rank.{{cite web |url=https://www.defence.gov.au/adf-members-families/honours-awards/medals/australian-awards/long-service-awards/defence-long-service-medal |title=Defence Long Service Medal |publisher=Department of Defence |access-date=13 March 2022}}

Additional service clasps, each indicating a further 5 years after the initial 15 year qualifying service, can still be issued to persons awarded the RFD, RFM or DFSM. The first four clasps to the medal are indicated by rosettes. These are replaced by a single silver Federation Star for the fifth clasp. Additional Federation Star emblems are added for subsequent clasps.