Lone Sailor Award
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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.
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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
= 2023 =
- William Goines (first African-American Navy Seal)
= 2022 =
= 2021 =
- Drew Carey
- U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black
= 2020 =
= 2019 =
= 2018 =
- Harvey Barnum, Jr.
- William Hannigan{{cite news |title=Sea Service Veterans Honored at the 2018 Lone Sailor Awards Dinner |url=https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/sea-service-veterans-honored-at-the-2018-lone-sailor-awards-dinner-1027568613 |publisher=Business Insider |date=26 September 2018}}
- Robert E. Naser*{{cite web |title=Robert “Bob” E. Naser |url=https://keohane.com/services/robert-e-naser/ |website=keohane.com |access-date=4 March 2023}}
= 2017 =
- Christopher Gardner
- Delbert* & Ima Black
- David Robinson
= 2016 =
=2015=
- Admiral James S. Gracey
- J. William Middendorf II
- Robert S. Morrison{{cite news |last1=Collins |first1=Emma |title=Two Holy Cross Alumni Recognized for Life-Time Achievement with Lone Sailor Award |url=https://news.holycross.edu/blog/2015/10/27/two-holy-cross-alumni-recognized-for-life-time-achievement-with-lone-sailor-award/ |publisher=College of the Holy Cross |date=27 October 2015}}
- C. Michael Petters
=2014=
=2013=
- Daniel Akerson
- General Paul X. Kelley
- Ted Turner
=2012=
=2011=
=2010=
- Lanier W. Phillips
- Edward W. Lebaron, Jr.
- {{Strikethrough|Bill Cosby}} {{small|(award revoked in 2014){{cite news |last1=Argetsinger |first1=Amy |title=Bill Cosby’s honorary title revoked by U.S. Navy |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2014/12/04/bill-cosbys-honorary-title-revoked-by-u-s-navy/ |publisher=Washington Post |date=4 December 2014}}}}
=2009=
=2008=
=2007=
=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{{cite news |title=Daniel Archibald Carmichael, Jr. |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/modern-biographical-files-ndl/modern-bios-c/carmichael-daniel-archibald-jr.html |publisher=Naval History and Heritage Command |date=31 July 2014}}
- 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=
=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{{cite news |last1=Kovner |first1=Guy |title=Entrepreneur and philanthropist Henry Trione the last of city's power brokers |url=https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/entrepreneur-and-philanthropist-henry-trione-the-last-of-citys-power-broke/ |publisher=Press Democrat |date=6 November 2011}}
- Jonathan Winters
=1996=
=1995=
- President Richard M. Nixon*
=1994=
- Tony Curtis
- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Admiral E.R. Zumwalt, Jr.
=1993=
- James A. Michener
- Allen E. Murray{{cite news |title=Allen E. Murray Dies at 73 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/08/25/allen-e-murray-dies-at-73/bdb5f472-7c23-4716-85c5-e23753977d44/ |publisher=Washington Post |date=25 August 2002}}
- 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=
Naval Heritage Award honorees
=2022=
=2016=
- Peter Ho{{cite news |last1=Gallagher |first1=Kathleen |title=Peter Ho joins Inouye as 2nd Hawaii recipient of Naval Heritage Award |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2016/06/01/peter-ho-joins-inouye-as-2nd-hawaiian-to-get-naval.html |publisher=Pacific Business News |date=1 June 2016}}
- Martin A. Kropelnicki{{cite news |title=California Water Service Group's Martin A. Kropelnicki Receives Naval Heritage Award |url=https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2016/05/27/1116002/0/en/California-Water-Service-Group-s-Martin-A-Kropelnicki-Receives-Naval-Heritage-Award.html |agency=California Water Service Group |publisher=globenewswire.com |date=27 May 2016}}
=2013=
- Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
=2008=
- Representative Norm Dicks
===2006===
- Senator Daniel Inouye
===2005===
- Representative Ike Skelton
===2002===
===1998===
- President Ronald W. Reagan
- John Wayne
===1997===
- Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher
- Ambassador Paul H. Nitze