Lone Sailor Award

2017 Lone Sailor Awards Dinner

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.

CNO Richardson and Rear Admiral Frank Thorp IV, USN (Ret.), President & CEO of the Navy Memorial, honoring Ima Black and her late husband Delbert D. Black, the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, at the 2017 Lone Sailor Awards Dinner

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

Source:[1]

(An * denotes a posthumous recipient)

2023

• William Goines (first African-American Navy Seal)

2022

• James Rex Barker
• Admiral Thomas “Tom” B. Fargo

2021

• Drew Carey
• U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black

2020

• Bill Withers
• James Mattis

2019

• Dr. Jack London
• Paul Galanti

2018

• Harvey Barnum, Jr.
• William Hannigan[2]
• Robert E. Naser*[3]

2017

• Christopher Gardner
• Delbert* & Ima Black
• David Robinson

2016

• Daniel D’Aniello
• Senator John H. Glenn, Jr.
• Rear Admiral Robert H. Shumaker
• John P. Cosgrove[4]

2015

• Admiral James S. Gracey
• J. William Middendorf II
• Robert S. Morrison[5]
• C. Michael Petters

2014

• Honorable Samuel A. Nunn, Jr.
• James A. Skinner
• Robert J. Stevens

2013

• Daniel Akerson
• General Paul X. Kelley
• Ted Turner

2012

• Everett Alvarez, Jr.
• John Paul DeJoria
• J. David Power III
• Mark Russell

2011

• Lloyd V. "Beau" Bridges III
• Jeffrey L. Bridges
• Lloyd V. Bridges, Jr.*
• Gerald F. "Jerry" Coleman
• Robert W.A. Feller*
• Brian P. Lamb

2010

• Lanier W. Phillips
• Edward W. Lebaron, Jr.
• Bill Cosby (award revoked in 2014)[6]

2009

• Lawrence P. "Yogi" Berra
• Leonard A. Lauder
• Frederick W. Smith

2008

• A.G. Lafley
• John H. McConnell*
• Arnold Palmer

2007

• Tom Benson
• Morgan L. Fitch, Jr., Esq.[7]
• Stan Musial
• Senator John W. Warner, Jr.

2006

• Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr.
• Arnold "Red" Auerbach

2005

• Rear Admiral Grace Hopper*
• Senator John McCain

2004

• Benjamin Bradlee
• Admiral Stansfield Turner

2003

• Captain Dan A. Carmichael[8]
• Joseph F. Cullman, III
• Captain James A. Lovell, Jr.

2002

• Gordon M. Bethune
• Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld
• Representative Floyd D. Spence*
• Representative Bob Stump

2000

• Nickolas Davatzes
• Robert M. Morgenthau
• President Theodore Roosevelt*
• John C. Whitehead

1999

• Charles Francis Adams IV*
• Captain Thomas J. Hudner, Jr.
• President John F. Kennedy*
• Senator John F. Kerry

1998

• Eddie Albert
• Ambassador John Gavin
• Admiral Hyman G. Rickover*
• Esther L. Snyder

1997

• Ernest Borgnine
• Captain Winifred Quick Collins
• Senator Robert Kerrey
• Austin H. Kiplinger
• Edmund W. Littlefield
• Henry Trione[9]
• Jonathan Winters

1996

• Dr. Robert Ballard
• Roger T. Staubach
• Dr. Kathryn Sullivan

1995

• President Richard M. Nixon*

1994

• Tony Curtis
• Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• Admiral E.R. Zumwalt, Jr.

1993

• James A. Michener
• Allen E. Murray[10]
• Harold A. Poling
• Rear Admiral William Thompson

1992

• President Gerald R. Ford
• Honorable H. Lawrence Garrett, III

1991

• Admiral Arleigh Burke
• President George H. W. Bush
• Justice William S. White

1989

• Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

1987

• Herman Wouk

Naval Heritage Award honorees

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2022

• Christine H. Fox

2016

• Peter Ho[11]
• Martin A. Kropelnicki[12]

2013

• Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison

2008

• Representative Norm Dicks

2006

• Senator Daniel Inouye

2005

• Representative Ike Skelton

2002

• Clive Cussler

1998

• President Ronald W. Reagan
• John Wayne

1997

• Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher
• Ambassador Paul H. Nitze

1996

• Bob Hope

1995

• Senator Margaret Chase Smith

References

1. "Previous Lone Sailor Award Recipients". navymemorial.org. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
2. "Sea Service Veterans Honored at the 2018 Lone Sailor Awards Dinner". Business Insider. 26 September 2018.
3. "Robert "Bob" E. Naser". keohane.com. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
4. "JOHN P. COSGROVE". legacy.org.
5. Collins, Emma (27 October 2015). "Two Holy Cross Alumni Recognized for Life-Time Achievement with Lone Sailor Award". College of the Holy Cross.
6. Argetsinger, Amy (4 December 2014). "Bill Cosby's honorary title revoked by U.S. Navy". Washington Post.
7. "Morgan L. Fitch, Jr. (1922 – 2013)". fitcheven.com. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
8. "Daniel Archibald Carmichael, Jr". Naval History and Heritage Command. 31 July 2014.
9. Kovner, Guy (6 November 2011). "Entrepreneur and philanthropist Henry Trione the last of city's power brokers". Press Democrat.
10. "Allen E. Murray Dies at 73". Washington Post. 25 August 2002.
11. Gallagher, Kathleen (1 June 2016). "Peter Ho joins Inouye as 2nd Hawaii recipient of Naval Heritage Award". Pacific Business News.
12. "California Water Service Group's Martin A. Kropelnicki Receives Naval Heritage Award". globenewswire.com. California Water Service Group. 27 May 2016.