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.
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[1] edit
(An * denotes a posthumous recipient)
2023 edit
- William Goines (first African-American Navy Seal)
2022 edit
2021 edit
- Drew Carey
- U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black
2020 edit
2019 edit
2018 edit
- Harvey Barnum, Jr.
- William Hannigan[2]
- Robert E. Naser*[3]
2017 edit
- Christopher Gardner
- Delbert* & Ima Black
- David Robinson
2016 edit
- Daniel D’Aniello
- Senator John H. Glenn, Jr.
- Rear Admiral Robert H. Shumaker
- John P. Cosgrove[4]
2015 edit
- Admiral James S. Gracey
- J. William Middendorf II
- Robert S. Morrison[5]
- C. Michael Petters
2014 edit
2013 edit
- Daniel Akerson
- General Paul X. Kelley
- Ted Turner
2012 edit
2011 edit
- Lloyd V. "Beau" Bridges III
- Jeffrey L. Bridges
- Lloyd V. Bridges, Jr.*
- Gerald F. "Jerry" Coleman
- Robert W.A. Feller*
- Brian P. Lamb
2010 edit
- Lanier W. Phillips
- Edward W. Lebaron, Jr.
Bill Cosby(award revoked in 2014)[6]
2009 edit
2008 edit
2007 edit
- Tom Benson
- Morgan L. Fitch, Jr., Esq.[7]
- Stan Musial
- Senator John W. Warner, Jr.
2006 edit
- Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr.
- Arnold "Red" Auerbach
2005 edit
- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper*
- Senator John McCain
2004 edit
- Benjamin Bradlee
- Admiral Stansfield Turner
2003 edit
- Captain Dan A. Carmichael[8]
- Joseph F. Cullman, III
- Captain James A. Lovell, Jr.
2002 edit
- Gordon M. Bethune
- Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld
- Representative Floyd D. Spence*
- Representative Bob Stump
2000 edit
1999 edit
- Charles Francis Adams IV*
- Captain Thomas J. Hudner, Jr.
- President John F. Kennedy*
- Senator John F. Kerry
1998 edit
- Eddie Albert
- Ambassador John Gavin
- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover*
- Esther L. Snyder
1997 edit
- Ernest Borgnine
- Captain Winifred Quick Collins
- Senator Robert Kerrey
- Austin H. Kiplinger
- Edmund W. Littlefield
- Henry Trione[9]
- Jonathan Winters
1996 edit
1995 edit
- President Richard M. Nixon*
1994 edit
- Tony Curtis
- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Admiral E.R. Zumwalt, Jr.
1993 edit
- James A. Michener
- Allen E. Murray[10]
- Harold A. Poling
- Rear Admiral William Thompson
1992 edit
- President Gerald R. Ford
- Honorable H. Lawrence Garrett, III
1991 edit
- Admiral Arleigh Burke
- President George H. W. Bush
- Justice William S. White
1989 edit
- Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
1987 edit
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2022 edit
2016 edit
2013 edit
- Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
2008 edit
- Representative Norm Dicks
2006 edit
- Senator Daniel Inouye
2005 edit
- Representative Ike Skelton
2002 edit
1998 edit
- President Ronald W. Reagan
- John Wayne
1997 edit
- Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher
- Ambassador Paul H. Nitze
1996 edit
1995 edit
- Senator Margaret Chase Smith
References edit
- ^ a b "Previous Lone Sailor Award Recipients". navymemorial.org. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
- ^ "Sea Service Veterans Honored at the 2018 Lone Sailor Awards Dinner". Business Insider. 26 September 2018.
- ^ "Robert "Bob" E. Naser". keohane.com. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
- ^ "JOHN P. COSGROVE". legacy.org.
- ^ Collins, Emma (27 October 2015). "Two Holy Cross Alumni Recognized for Life-Time Achievement with Lone Sailor Award". College of the Holy Cross.
- ^ Argetsinger, Amy (4 December 2014). "Bill Cosby's honorary title revoked by U.S. Navy". Washington Post.
- ^ "Morgan L. Fitch, Jr. (1922 – 2013)". fitcheven.com. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
- ^ "Daniel Archibald Carmichael, Jr". Naval History and Heritage Command. 31 July 2014.
- ^ Kovner, Guy (6 November 2011). "Entrepreneur and philanthropist Henry Trione the last of city's power brokers". Press Democrat.
- ^ "Allen E. Murray Dies at 73". Washington Post. 25 August 2002.
- ^ Gallagher, Kathleen (1 June 2016). "Peter Ho joins Inouye as 2nd Hawaii recipient of Naval Heritage Award". Pacific Business News.
- ^ "California Water Service Group's Martin A. Kropelnicki Receives Naval Heritage Award". globenewswire.com. California Water Service Group. 27 May 2016.