Hello Trendafil, welcome to the Forum. Your account is active and open for posts.
Interesting question you have posed. I can't speak to the South African regulations, but in the Canadian case, the service chevrons were awarded "from the date of leaving their own country". That included garrison duties in the Bermuda and St. Lucia, but not any service in the USA. Most interesting, in the Cdn case, service in the UK counted.
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