This coin was awarded by Lieutenant General Thomas M. Montgomery, 20th U.S. Military Representative (USMILREP) to NATO Military Committee, Brussels, Belgium between 1994 and 1997.

As the USMILREP for three years, he was the permanent representative of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) on NATO’s highest military body during a defining period of change and challenge for the North Atlantic Alliance in the wake of the Cold War