Defense Distinguished Service Medal
The Defense Distinguished Service Medal is a United States military award which is presented for exceptionally distinguished performance of duty contributing to the national security or defense of the United States. The medal was created on July 9, 1970, by President Richard Nixon in Executive Order 11545.
Defense Distinguished Service Medal People (First 49 people) - Page 1
William J. Crowe
Ambassador
Thomas B. Hayward
Military officer
Samuel Wilson
Stephen R. Lyons
General
Carl E. Vuono
Louis H. Wilson Jr.
General
James Kowalski
Edmund Giambastiani
Submariner
Edward G. Winters, III
Patricia Ann Tracey
Military officer
Richard D. Clarke
Bradley C. Hosmer
General
Paul X. Kelley
General
Jack I. Gregory
Gregory G. Johnson
Admiral
Harry D. Train II
Submariner
James D. Thurman
General
Robert W. RisCassi
General
Sean A. Pybus
Nancy Elizabeth Brown
Commanding officer
Deborah Loewer
American military officer
Carol M. Pottenger
Commanding officer
John R. Dallager
Russell E. Dougherty
Military officer
Joseph K. Bratton
American engineer
Gary L. North
General
William L. Nyland
General
Walter E. Boomer
General
Richard I. Neal
General
Charles A. Gabriel
General
Dennis L. Via
Frederick Kroesen
General
William G. T. Tuttle Jr.
Biographer
Larry R. Ellis
Officer
Richard E. Hawley
General
Paul J. Kern
Norton A. Schwartz
President of the Institute for Defense Analyses
William W. Crouch
John W. Handy
General
Howard D. Graves
Officer
Charles T. Robertson Jr.
George B. Crist
General
James L. Jamerson
General
Edwin Smith
Photographer
Henry Viccellio Jr.
Former general
John Michael Bednarek
John Sattler
