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 awarded Recipients
2015
ADM James S. Gracey
J. William Middendorf II
Robert S. Morrison
C. Michael Petters
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