Lone Sailor Award

The United States Navy Memorial Foundation presents a Lone Sailor Award to Sea Service Veterans who have distinguished themselves, drawing upon their Sea Service experience to become successful, in their subsequent careers and lives, while exemplifying the core values of Honor, Courage and Commitment.

Lone Sailor Award honorees

2015

• ADM James S. Gracey
• J. William Middendorf II
• Robert S. Morrison
• C. Michael Petters^[1]

2014

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

2013

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

2012

• Evertt Alvarez, Jr.
• John Paul DeJoria
• J. David Power III

2011

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

2010

• Lanier W. Phillips
• Edward W. Lebaron, Jr.

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.
• 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
• 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
• Honorable Robert M. Morgenthau
• President Theodore Roosevelt
• Honorable John C. Whitehead

1999

• Charles Francis Adams
• 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 Winidred Quick Collins
• Senator Robert Kerrey
• Austin H. Kiplinger
• Edmund W. Littlefield
• Henry Trione
• 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
• Harold A. Poling
• Rear Admiral William Thompson

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