|
2012 |
Colonel
George Everette "Bud" Day, USAF Retired |
|
2011 |
Colonel William M. Voigt,
USAFR, Retired |
|
2010 |
General Charles C. Krulak,
USMC (Retired) |
|
2009 |
Admiral Frank B. Kelso II |
|
2008 |
Lt.
General G.R. (Ron) Christmas,
USMC Retired,
President and CEO of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation |
|
2007 |
H.C. "Barney" Barnum, Jr., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Reserve Affairs and a recipient of
the Medal of Honor |
|
2006 |
Lieutenant
General Harold. G. Moore, U.S. Army (Retired) |
|
2005 |
Colonel Leo K. Thorsness |
|
2004 |
Major General Donald R. Gardner, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired) |
|
2003 |
Major Bert Bank |
|
2002 |
Lieutenant General Robert F. Foley, U.S. Army (Retired) |
|
2001 |
Major General J. Gary Cooper, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired) |
|
2000 |
General Carl E. Mundy, Jr., Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps |
|
1999 |
General Dennis J. Reimer |
|
1998 |
General George A. Joulwan |
|
1997 |
Colonel Ola Lee Mize |
|
1996 |
General Raymond G. Davis |
|
1995 |
Colonel William R. Lawley, Jr., Rear Admiral Eugene B.
Fluckey, Master Sergeant Henry E. Erwin, Captain Maurice Britt, Captain
Jack Lucas |
|
1994 |
Lieutenant General John J. Yeosock |
|
1993 |
Major General Mary E. Clarke, Rear Admiral Fran McKee |
|
1992 |
General Charles Horner, Commander, U.S. Space Command |
|
1991 |
Senator Daniel Inouye |
|
1990 |
General William J. Livsey, Commander, Eighth Army |
|
1989 |
Senator Howell Heflin |
|
1988 |
Senator Sam Nunn |
|
1987 |
Vernon A. Walters, Ambassador to the United Nations |
|
1986 |
Senator Barry M. Goldwater |
|
1985 |
General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. |
|
1984 |
Congressman G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery |
|
1983 |
Brigadier General Joseph J. Foss |
|
1982 |
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover |
|
1981 |
Captain Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
|
1980 |
General Louis Wilson, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps |
|
1979 |
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations |
|
1978 |
Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbits, Jr. |
|
1977 |
General William C. Westmoreland, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army |
|
1976 |
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong |
|
1975 |
General Lewis B. Hershey, Director Selective Service System |
|
1974 |
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
|
1973 |
Charles A. Lindberg |
|
1972 |
Brigadler General James Stewart |
|
1971 |
Lieutenant General James Doolittle |
|
1970 |
General Omar N. Bradley, General of the Army |
|
1969 |
Colonel Roscoe Turner |
|
1968 |
General Lauris Norstad, NATO Commander |
|
1967 |
Donald M. Kendall, CEO, Pepsi-Cola Company |
|
1966 |
General Paul D. Adams, Strike Commander |
|
1965 |
General David Sarnoff, Chairman of the Board, RCA |
|
1964 |
General J. Lawton Collins |
|
1963 |
General Mathew B. Ridgeway |
|
1962 |
John S. Gleason, National Administrator of Veterans Affairs |
|
1961 |
General James A. Van Fleet |
|
1960 |
Sumner G. Whittier, Chief of the Veterans Administration |
|
1959 |
General Alfred M. Gruenther, President of the American Red
Cross |
|
1958 |
Governor Ernest Vandiver of Georgia, Governor E.F. Hollings
of South Carolina and Governor John Patterson of Alabama |
|
1957 |
General Lucius D. Clay, Chairman of the Board, Continental
Can Company |
|
1956 |
General Mark Clark, President of the Citadel |
|
1955 |
Harvey V. Higley, National Administrator of Veterans
Affairs |
|
1954 |
Congressman Edward H. Rees |
