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The United States Navy Memorial presents a Lone Sailor Award to Sea Service veterans who have excelled with distinction in their respective careers during or after their service. The award recipients will join a list of men and women who have distinguished themselves by drawing upon their military experience to become successful in their subsequent careers and lives, while exemplifying the core values of Honor, Courage and Commitment. The Lone Sailor Award has been given out each year since the Navy Memorial was dedicated in 1987.
The Lone Sailor Awards Dinner is an annual gala hosted by the Navy Memorial to ''Honor, Recognize and Celebrate'' its constituents and award recipients.
The ceremony is held in September of each year at the National Building Museum in
The United States Navy Memorial presents a Lone Sailor Award to Sea Service veterans who have excelled with distinction in their respective careers during or after their service. The award recipients will join a list of men and women who have distinguished themselves by drawing upon their military experience to become successful in their subsequent careers and lives, while exemplifying the core values of Honor, Courage and Commitment. The Lone Sailor Award has been given out each year since the Navy Memorial was dedicated in 1987.
The Lone Sailor Awards Dinner is an annual gala hosted by the Navy Memorial to ''Honor, Recognize and Celebrate'' its constituents and award recipients.
The ceremony is held in September of each year at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
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The United States Navy Memorial also issues a corresponding award known as the Naval Heritage Award, issued to those who were not veterans of Sea Services, but have done outstanding work to support the Sea Services and displayed the same values of Lone Sailor Award recipients in their lives.
Lone Sailor Award honorees
Source: ''(An * denotes a posthumous recipient)''2024
* Master Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Edward C. Byers JR. (Medal of Honor Recipient) * Jack O. Bovender Jr. (Former Chairman and CEO of Hospital Corporation of America)2023
* Robert "Bob" Work (32nd US Deputy Secretary of Defense) * U.S. Navy Master Chief William Goines (first African-American Navy Seal)2022
* James Rex Barker * Admiral Thomas “Tom” B. Fargo2021
*Drew Carey
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* U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black2020
*Bill Withers
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* James Mattis
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2019
* Dr.Jack London
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* Paul Galanti2018
* Harvey Barnum, Jr. * William Hannigan * Robert E. Naser*2017
* Christopher Gardner * Delbert* & Ima Black * David Robinson2016
* Daniel D’Aniello *Senator John H. Glenn, Jr. *Rear Admiral Robert H. Shumaker *John P. Cosgrove2015
*Admiral James S. Gracey * J. William Middendorf II *Robert S. Morrison * C. Michael Petters2014
*Honorable Samuel A. Nunn, Jr. * James A. Skinner * Robert J. Stevens2013
* Daniel Akerson *General Paul X. Kelley *Ted Turner
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2012
* Everett Alvarez, Jr. * John Paul DeJoria * J. David Power III * Mark Russell2011
* Lloyd V. "Beau" Bridges III * Jeffrey L. Bridges * Lloyd V. Bridges, Jr.* * Gerald F. "Jerry" Coleman * Robert W.A. Feller* * Brian P. Lamb2010
* Lanier W. Phillips * Edward W. Lebaron, Jr. * '2009
* Lawrence P. "Yogi" Berra * Leonard A. Lauder * Frederick W. Smith2008
* A.G. Lafley * John H. McConnell* *Arnold Palmer
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2007
* Tom Benson *Morgan L. Fitch, Jr., Esq. *Stan Musial
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*Senator John W. Warner, Jr.2006
*Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. * Arnold "Red" Auerbach2005
*Rear AdmiralGrace Hopper
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*
*Senator John McCain
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2004
* Benjamin Bradlee *Admiral Stansfield Turner2003
*Captain Dan A. Carmichael * Joseph F. Cullman, III *Captain James A. Lovell, Jr.2002
* Gordon M. Bethune *Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld *Representative Floyd D. Spence* *RepresentativeBob Stump
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2000
* Nickolas Davatzes * Robert M. Morgenthau *PresidentTheodore Roosevelt
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*
* John C. Whitehead1999
* Charles Francis Adams IV* *Captain Thomas J. Hudner, Jr. *PresidentJohn F. Kennedy
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*
*Senator John F. Kerry
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1998
* Eddie Albert *Ambassador John Gavin *Admiral Hyman G. Rickover* * Esther L. Snyder1997
*Ernest Borgnine
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*Captain Winifred Quick Collins
*Senator Robert Kerrey
* Austin H. Kiplinger
* Edmund W. Littlefield
*Henry Trione
*Jonathan Winters
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1996
*Dr.Robert Ballard
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* Roger T. Staubach
*Dr. Kathryn Sullivan1995
*President Richard M. Nixon*1994
*Tony Curtis
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*Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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*Admiral E.R. Zumwalt, Jr.1993
*James A. Michener
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*Allen E. Murray
* Harold A. Poling
*Rear Admiral William Thompson1992
*PresidentGerald R. Ford
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*Honorable H. Lawrence Garrett, III1991
*AdmiralArleigh Burke
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*President George H. W. Bush
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*Justice William S. White1989
*Admiral Thomas H. Moorer1987
*Herman Wouk
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Naval Heritage Award honorees
Source:2023
* U.S. Senator Susan Collins2022
* Christine H. Fox2016
*Peter Ho *Martin A. Kropelnicki2013
*SenatorKay Bailey Hutchison
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2008
*Representative Norm Dicks2006
*SenatorDaniel Inouye
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2005
*Representative Ike Skelton2002
*Clive Cussler
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1998
*PresidentRonald W. Reagan
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*John Wayne
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1997
* Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher *Ambassador Paul H. Nitze1996
*Bob Hope
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1995
*Senator Margaret Chase SmithReferences
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