The Distinguished Service Star[2] is the third highest military award of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

[3] It is awarded for eminently meritorious and valuable service rendered while holding a position of great responsibility.

[4] The medal is worn around the neck, suspended from a ribbon of dark blue, with a red vertical stripe in the center.

Surmounting the seal in an arc is a golden scroll engraved worth "Merit".

The star is attached to its ribbon by a wreath of twenty-six dark green leaves and ten white buds.