Lone Sailor Award
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.
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
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2024
2023
2022
2021
- Drew Carey
- U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black
2020
2019
2018
- Harvey Barnum, Jr.
- William Hannigan
- Robert E. Naser*
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
2015
- Admiral James S. Gracey
- J. William Middendorf II
- Robert S. Morrison
- C. Michael Petters
2014
2013
2012
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
2009
2008
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
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
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
- 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
- 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
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2022
2016
- Peter Ho
- Martin A. Kropelnicki
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
1996
1995
- Senator Margaret Chase Smith