- Source: Navy Distinguished Service Medal
The Navy Distinguished Service Medal is a military decoration of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps which was first created in 1919 and is presented to Sailors and Marines to recognize distinguished and exceptionally meritorious service to the United States while serving in a duty or position of great responsibility.
Navy Distinguished Service Medal is equivalent to the Army's Distinguished Service Medal, Air and Space Forces' Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, and the Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal. The Navy Distinguished Service Medal was originally senior to the Navy Cross, until August 1942 when the precedence of the two decorations was reversed. Currently, it is worn after the Defense Distinguished Service Medal and before the Silver Star Medal.
History
At the start of World War I, the Department of the Navy had the Medal of Honor as the only decoration with which to recognize heroism. To recognize acts deserving recognition, but at a level below that required for the Medal of Honor, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal and the Navy Cross were created by Public Law 253 on 4 February 1919. The law made the award retroactive to 6 April 1917. The first award of the decoration was a posthumous presentation to Brigadier General Charles A. Doyen, USMC, on 13 March 1919. Originally senior in precedence to the Navy Cross, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal assumed its current place below the Navy Cross by Congressional action on 7 August 1942.
Criteria
The Navy Distinguished Service Medal is bestowed upon members of the Navy or Marine Corps who distinguish themselves by exceptionally meritorious service to the United States government in a duty of great responsibility. To justify this decoration, exceptional performance of duty must be clearly above that normally expected, and contributes to the success of a major command or project. Generally, the Distinguished Service Medal is awarded to officers in principal commands at sea, or in the field, whose service is of a manner to justify the award. However, this does not preclude the award of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal to any individual who meets the service requirements. The term "great responsibility" implies senior military responsibility, and the decoration is normally only bestowed to senior Navy flag officers and Marine Corps general officers, or extremely senior enlisted positions such as the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy or the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps. In rare instances, it has also been awarded to Navy captains and Marine Corps colonels, typically those in positions of significant responsibility in direct support of senior flag and general officers, and then only by exception (usually at retirement).
Appearance
The Navy Distinguished Service Medal is a gilt bronze medallion 1.25 inches (32 mm) in diameter. The obverse of the medal depicts an American bald eagle in the center displaying its wings. The eagle holds an olive branch in its right talon and arrows in its left talons. The eagle is surrounded by a blue enameled ring with the words, • UNITED • STATES • OF • AMERICA • at the top and • NAVY • at the bottom. Surrounding the blue enamel ring is a gold border of scroll waves depicted moving in a clockwise direction. The medal is surmounted by a white five-pointed star, point up, the points of the star being tipped with gold balls. In the center of the star is a blue anchor, while gold rays radiate between the arms of the star.
The reverse of the medal depicts a trident surrounded by a laurel wreath. The wreath is surrounded by a blue enamel ring containing the inscription FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE. Like the obverse, the blue enamel ring on the reverse is surrounded by scroll waves.
The medal's suspension and service ribbon is navy blue with a single central stripe of yellow. Additional awards of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal are denoted by gold and silver 5/16 inch stars worn on the medal's suspension and service ribbon.
Notable recipients
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James F. Amos (2 awards)
Edwin Anderson Jr.
George W. Anderson (2 awards)
John C. Aquilino (2 awards)
David Architzel (2 awards)
Jackson D. Arnold
Stanley R. Arthur (3 awards)
Bernard L. Austin (3 awards)
Lee Baggett Jr. (2 awards)
David W. Bagley
Worth H. Bagley
Ralph A. Bard
George Barnett
Micheal Barrett
Robert H. Barrow
Reginald R. Belknap
William S. Benson
Delbert Black
William H. P. Blandy (4 awards)
Walter F. Boone
Jeremy M. Boorda (4 awards)
Frank L. Bowman
Alpha L. Bowser
Omar Bradley
Ted N. Branch
Robert P. Briscoe
Mark L. Bristol
George S. Brown
Miles Browning
Arleigh Burke (3 awards)
James B. Busey IV (3 awards)
Duane R. Bushey
John D. Butler
Smedley Butler
Richard E. Byrd (2 awards)
James F. Caldwell Jr. (2 awards)
Albert M. Calland III
Joe Campa
William B. Caperton
Robert B. Carney (4 awards)
Clifton B. Cates (2 awards)
Leonard F. Chapman Jr. (3 awards)
Jehu V. Chase
Claire L. Chennault
Henry G. Chiles Jr.
Albert T. Church III
Bernard A. Clarey (5 awards)
Vern Clark (3 awards)
Archie R. Clemins (3 awards)
Robert E. Cleary
Bruce W. Clingan (3 awards)
Richard G. Colbert (2 awards)
Robert H. Conn
Michael J. Connor
James T. Conway
Charles M. Cooke Jr.
Robert Coontz
John G. Cotton
Ralph W. Cousins (3 awards)
James W. Crawford III
Leland D. Crawford
Thomas S. Crow
William J. Crowe (3 awards)
Maurice E. Curts (2 awards)
Robert E. Cushman Jr. (4 awards)
Peter H. Daly (2 awards)
Philip S. Davidson (2 awards)
Arthur C. Davis (2 awards)
Donald C. Davis
Bruce DeMars
Nanette M. DeRenzi
Martin Dempsey
Louis E. Denfeld
Robert L. Dennison
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Vincent P. de Poix (3 awards)
Louis R. de Steiguer
Kirkland H. Donald (3 awards)
Walter Doran (2 awards)
Charles A. Doyen
Charles K. Duncan
Kevin M. Donegan (2 awards)
Joseph Dunford
Charles W. Dyson
Edward W. Eberle
Thomas A. Edison
Leon A. Edney (2 awards)
Richard S. Edwards
Robert L. Eichelberger (4 awards)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
James O. Ellis
Edward Ellsberg
John L. Estrada
Craig S. Faller
William J. Fallon
Thomas B. Fargo (4 awards)
William Fechteler (2 awards)
Harry D. Felt (2 awards)
Mark E. Ferguson III (3 awards)
Jason K. Fettig
James Fife (3 awards)
James R. Fitzgerald (2 awards)
Mark P. Fitzgerald (2 awards)
William J. Flanagan Jr.
Frank F. Fletcher
Frank J. Fletcher
Lisa Franchetti
James G. Foggo III (2 awards)
Sylvester R. Foley Jr. (2 awards)
Ignatius J. Galantin
Daniel V. Gallery
Roy Alexander Gano
Noel A. M. Gayler (2 awards)
Edmund P. Giambastiani (5 awards)
Albert Gleaves
William E. Gortney (2 awards)
Christopher W. Grady
Alfred M. Gray Jr. (2 awards)
Collin P. Green
Jonathan W. Greenert (6 awards)
Wallace M. Greene (2 awards)
Charles D. Griffin (2 awards)
John Hagan
Alexander Haig
John L. Hall, Jr.
William F. Halsey, Jr. (4 awards)
Cecil D. Haney (2 awards)
Huntington Hardisty
Harry B. Harris Jr. (3 awards)
Thomas C. Hart (2 awards)
John C. Harvey Jr. (2 awards)
Ronald J. Hays (3 awards)
Thomas B. Hayward (3 awards)
Arthur Japy Hepburn
James L. Herdt
Diego E. Hernández
H. Kent Hewitt (2 awards)
Frank T. Hines
Thomas Holcomb
James L. Holloway Jr.
James L. Holloway III (4 awards)
Ephraim P. Holmes
Wilfred Holmes
James R. Hogg (2 awards)
Herbert G. Hopwood
Frederick J. Horne
Michelle Howard (2 awards)
Charles F. Hughes
John J. Hyland (2 awards)
Royal E. Ingersoll
Stuart H. Ingersoll (2 awards)
Jonas H. Ingram (3 awards)
Bobby Inman
David E. Jeremiah (5 awards)
Jay L. Johnson
Jerome L. Johnson
Means Johnston Jr. (2 awards)
David C. Jones
Hilary P. Jones
Sara A. Joyner
Timothy J. Keating (2 awards)
Frank B. Kelso II (3 awards)
Paul X. Kelley
Carlton W. Kent
Joseph D. Kernan (2 awards)
Margaret G. Kibben
Isaac C. Kidd Jr. (3 awards)
Ernest J. King (3 awards)
Tracy W. King (2 awards)
Thomas C. Kinkaid (3 awards)
George E. R. Kinnear II (2 awards)
John Kirby
Alan G. Kirk
Austin M. Knight
Charles C. Krulak (2 awards)
Henry Louis Larsen (2 awards)
Charles R. Larson (7 awards)
Edwin T. Layton
William D. Leahy (3 awards)
Julien J. LeBourgeois (2 awards)
Lewis G. Lee
Willis A. Lee (2 awards)
John A. Lejeune
Lyman Lemnitzer
Samuel J. Locklear (2 awards)
Charles A. Lockwood (3 awards)
Robert L. J. Long (2 awards)
Thomas J. Lopez (2 awards)
James Lyons (2 awards)
Douglas MacArthur
Harold M. Martin
James N. Mattis
Henry H. Mauz Jr. (3 awards)
Henry T. Mayo
Mildred H. McAfee
John S. McCain Sr. (3 awards)
John S. McCain Jr. (2 awards)
Keith B. McCutcheon (3 awards)
David L. McDonald (2 awards)
Wesley L. McDonald (2 awards)
Kinnaird R. McKee
Alford L. McMichael
Joseph V. Medina
George E. Mayer
Wayne E. Meyer
Frederick H. Michaelis (2 awards)
Richard W. Mies
Paul D. Miller (3 awards)
Marc Mitscher (3 awards)
Ben Moreell (2 awards)
Thomas H. Moorer (5 awards)
William F. Moran (2 awards)
Michael Mullen (2 awards)
Carl E. Mundy Jr.
Charles L. Munns (2 awards)
Orin G. Murfin
Daniel J. Murphy
Dennis J. Murphy
John Murtha
Richard Myers
John B. Nathman (4 awards)
Robert J. Natter (5 awards)
Wendell C. Neville (2 awards)
Chester W. Nimitz (4 awards)
Eric T. Olson
William A. Owens (2 awards)
Peter Pace
Randolph M. Pate
Frank E. Petersen
Donald L. Pilling
William H. Plackett
John Cyril Porte
Carol M. Pottenger
Colin Powell
William V. Pratt
Joseph W. Prueher
Sean A. Pybus
Arthur W. Radford (4 awards)
Marion Frederic Ramírez de Arellano
DeWitt Clinton Ramsey (2 awards)
J. Paul Reason
Joseph M. Reeves
Eli T. Reich (2 awards)
John M. Richardson (3 awards)
Claude V. Ricketts
Hyman G. Rickover (3 awards)
Herbert D. Riley
Maurice H. Rindskopf
Horacio Rivero Jr. (3 awards)
Joseph Rochefort (Posthumously awarded in 1985)
Carson Abel Roberts
Louis Robertshaw
Samuel M. Robinson
Hugh Rodman
Bernard W. Rogers
Michael S. Rogers
Gary Roughead (2 awards)
Ross E. Rowell
James S. Russell (2 awards)
John H. Russell Jr.
Billy C. Sanders
Walter M. Schirra
Harry Schmidt (3 awards)
Terry D. Scott
David F. Sellers
Benedict J. Semmes, Jr.
James E. Service
Sumner Shapiro
U. S. Grant Sharp Jr. (2 awards)
Harold E. Shear (2 awards)
Alan Shepard
Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr.
Forrest P. Sherman
Eric Shinseki
David M. Shoup
John H. Sides
William Sims
William N. Small (2 awards)
Edward H. Smith
Leighton W. Smith Jr.
Harold Page Smith
Holland M. Smith (4 awards)
William D. Smith (2 awards)
David W. Sommers
Raymond A. Spruance (3 awards)
William H. Standley
Harold R. Stark (3 awards)
James G. Stavridis
Clark Daniel Stearns
Michael D. Stevens
Vincent R. Stewart
James Stockdale (3 awards)
Joseph C. Strasser
Joseph Strauss
Lewis Strauss
William O. Studeman
Felix Stump
Scott H. Swift (3 awards)
David W. Taylor
Montgomery M. Taylor
John S. Thach (2 awards)
Kurt W. Tidd
Jan E. Tighe
John H. Towers
Patricia Ann Tracey
Harry D. Train II (4 awards)
Carlisle Trost (3 awards)
Jeffrey E. Trussler
Richmond K. Turner (4 awards)
Stansfield Turner
Nathan F. Twining
Pedro del Valle
Alexander Vandegrift
John W. Vessey Jr.
Russell R. Waesche
Robert Walker
Patrick M. Walsh (3 awards)
Thomas Washington
James Watkins (3 awards)
John P. Weinel (4 awards)
Maurice F. Weisner (4 awards)
Edward F. Welch, Jr.
Waldemar F.A. Wendt (3 awards)
Robert Wertheim (2 awards)
Rick West
Steven A. White
John Whittet
Alfred J. Whittle Jr. (2 awards)
Henry A. Wiley
Charles E. Wilhelm
Theodore S. Wilkinson
Robert F. Willard (3 awards)
Henry B. Wilson
James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
Clark H. Woodward (2 awards)
Jerauld Wright (2 awards)
Harry E. Yarnell
James A. Zimble
Anthony Zinni
Ronald J. Zlatoper
Elmo Zumwalt (3 awards)
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See also
Awards and decorations of the United States military
Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
Coast and Geodetic Survey Distinguished Service Medal
Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)
Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal
References
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- Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
- Medal of Honor
- Douglas MacArthur
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Navy Distinguished Service Medal
- Distinguished service medal
- Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)
- Defense Distinguished Service Medal
- Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Air and Space Forces)
- Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal
- Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal
- Distinguished Service Medal (United Kingdom)
- Distinguished Service Order (Vietnam)
- Awards and decorations of the United States Department of the Navy
