Medal for Long Service Medal for Long Service The Medal for Long Service (Polish: "Medal za Długoletnią Służbę") is a Polish decoration awarded in three classes (gold, silver and bronze) to members of the Polish Armed Forces and other uniformed services, and to civilians who have honorably completed 30, 20 or 10 years of service to the State. The medal was established by the Law of January 8, 1938. After the outbreak of the Second World War the conferment was suspended, and after the war the medal was eventually discontinued. In 1951, it was replaced by the Medal of the Armed Forces in the
Service Medal in Silver veteran cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe for twenty years service. The position of the Service Medal in Silver in the official military and national orders of precedence was revised upon the institution of a new set of honours on 27 April 2003, but it remained unchanged. The Service Medal in Silver is an oval medallion with a raised edge, struck in silver and depicting the Umkhonto we Sizwe emblem. The reverse is smooth and displays the embellished with watermarks impressed below and the medal number impressed above. The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide and green, with an 8 millimetres wide