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{{Infobox Military Award
|name=Transportation Distinguished Service Medal
|image=DOTDisSM.jpg
|image_size=200px
|caption=Transportation Distinguished Service Medal
|presenter=[[United States Department of Transportation|Department of Transportation]]
|type=Medal
|established={{ExecutiveOrder|12824}}, December 7, 1992, (amended by {{ExecutiveOrder|13286}}, February 28, 2003, {{ExecutiveOrder|13569}}, April 5, 2011).
|eligibility=Members of the [[United States Coast Guard]]
|status=Replaced by [[Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal]] in 2003
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|precedence_label=Order of Wear
|higher=[[Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal]]<ref>{{cite web|title=US Coast Guard Ribbons & Devices Correct Order Of Ribbon Wear|url=http://www.uscg.mil/UNIFORMS/docs/ribbons_devices.pdf|publisher=United States Coast Guard|accessdate=26 January 2015}}</ref>
|same=
|lower=[[Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal]]<ref name=EO12842/>
|image2=[[File:USA - DOT Distinguished Service Medal.png|100px]]
|caption2=Transportation Distinguished Service Medal ribbon
}}
The '''Transportation Distinguished Service Medal''' was the highest decoration which could be bestowed by the [[United States Secretary of Transportation|Secretary of Transportation]] for exceptional service to the United States government in a position of great responsibility to a member of the [[United States Coast Guard]].<ref name=EO12842>{{ExecutiveOrder|12824}}</ref> In 2003 it was replaced by the [[Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal]].
The Department of Transportation Distinguished Service Medal was established by {{ExecutiveOrder|12824}} signed by [[George H. W. Bush|President George H. W. Bush]] on December 7, 1992.  The decoration was awarded to any member of the Coast Guard who provided exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility while assigned in the [[United States Department of Transportation|Department of Transportation]], or in other activities under the responsibility of the Secretary of Transportation, either national or international, as may be assigned by the Secretary.
With the creation of the [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]] in 2003 and transfer of the Coast Guard to it, the award was changed to become the [[Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal]], issued by the [[United States Secretary of Homeland Security|Secretary of Homeland Security]].<ref>{{ExecutiveOrder|13286}}</ref>
== See also ==
*[[Awards and decorations of the United States Coast Guard]]
*[[Obsolete military awards of the United States]]
== References ==
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