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.
(An * denotes a posthumous recipient)
2023
edit- William Goines (first African-American Navy Seal)
2022
edit2021
edit- Drew Carey
- U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black
2020
edit2019
edit2018
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
edit2013
edit- Daniel Akerson
- General Paul X. Kelley
- Ted Turner
2012
edit2011
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
edit2008
edit2007
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
edit1999
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
edit1995
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
edit2022
edit2016
edit2013
edit- Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
2008
edit- Representative Norm Dicks
2006
edit- Senator Daniel Inouye
2005
edit- Representative Ike Skelton
2002
edit1998
edit- President Ronald W. Reagan
- John Wayne
1997
edit- Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher
- Ambassador Paul H. Nitze
1996
edit1995
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.