Air Force approves humanitarian medal for OEF Published July 27, 2004 RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- The Air Force has authorized the Humanitarian Service Medal for certain people who supported Operation Enduring Freedom.During the operation, hundreds of Airmen participated in packaging and delivering nearly 2.5 million individual human daily rations that were air-dropped to beleaguered Afghans.The medal recognizes this and other humanitarian operations that took place Oct. 7, 2001, to May 31, 2002.To qualify for the medal, Airmen must have been individually assigned or attached to a unit participating in the humanitarian efforts and must have directly participated in the relief actions. The actions must have affected locations within the land area, airspace, or waters of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Gulf of Oman, or the Arabian Sea, designated as 20 degrees north latitude and west of 68 degrees longitude.Other Airmen, such as aircrews, who may be approved are those who were in direct support of OEF humanitarian operations from U.S. locations, or deployed overseas and were assigned to or working from one of the following locations: the Combined Air Operations Center, Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia; the Regional Air Movement Control Center, Al Udeid, Qatar; the 437th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron or 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany; the 351st Air Refueling Squadron, Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England; the 2nd Space Operations Squadron, Falcon Air Force Base, Colo.; the 315th Airlift Wing, Charleston AFB, S.C.; or the 62nd and 446th Airlift Wings, McChord AFB, Wash.