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Meritorious Service Medal

HONOR

Awarded by the U.S. military to soldiers who display perform outstanding meritorious achievement or service. Created in 1969.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Air Force Amy
Pornstar
c. 1965   Moonlite Bunny Ranch
Keith B. Alexander
Military
1952   Director, National Security Agency
Christopher C. Ames
Military
c. 1954   US Navy Rear Admiral
Scott C. Black
Attorney
?   US Army Judge Advocate General
Dennis C. Blair
Government
4-Feb-1947   Director of National Intelligence, 2009-10
Jeremy M. Boorda
Military
26-Nov-1939 16-May-1996 Chief of Naval Operations, 1994-96
Marvin D. Brailsford
Business
31-Jan-1939   Retired US Army Lt. General
George W. Casey, Jr.
Military
21-Jul-1948   US Army Chief of Staff, 2007-11
Vernon E. Clark
Military
7-Sep-1944   US Chief of Naval Operations, 2000-05
James T. Conway
Military
26-Dec-1947   Commandant of the Marine Corps
Bruce DeMars
Military
3-Jun-1935   Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Dale Dye
Actor
8-Oct-1944   Warriors, Inc.
Ralph E. Eberhart
Military
c. 1946   Commander of NORAD, 2002-05
James O. Ellis, Jr.
Military
20-Jul-1947   C-in-C of US Strategic Command, 2001-02
William J. Fallon
Military
30-Dec-1944   C-in-C, US Central Command, 2007-08
Ronald R. Fogleman
Military
27-Jan-1942   USAF Chief of Staff, 1994-97
Donald Fowler
Government
12-Sep-1935   DNC chairman, 1995-97
Jay Garner
Military
15-Apr-1938   Ex-Director of Reconstruction of Iraq
Dave Gaubatz
Activist
?   Muslim Mafia
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.
Military
4-May-1948   Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2005-07
Lloyd V. Hackley
Educator
c. 1940   Chancellor of Fayetteville State University
Michael V. Hayden
Government
17-Mar-1945   Former Director of the CIA
William J. Haynes II
Government
30-Mar-1958   DOD General Counsel, 2001-08
Robert T. Herres
Military
12-Jan-1932 24-Jul-2008 Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs, 1987-90
Russel Honore
Military
1947   Three-star general
Grace Murray Hopper
Computer Programmer
9-Dec-1906 1-Jan-1992 Computer programming pioneer
Bill Johnson
Politician
10-Nov-1954   Congressman, Ohio 6th
Jay L. Johnson
Military
5-Jun-1946   US Chief of Naval Operations, 1996-2000
John P. Jumper
Military
4-Feb-1945   USAF Chief of Staff, 2001-05
Janis Karpinski
Military
c. 1953   Brig. General in charge of Abu Ghraib prison
John M. Keane
Military
1-Feb-1943   US Army Vice Chief of Staff, 1999-2003
Frank B. Kelso II
Military
11-Jul-1933   Chief of Naval Operations, 1990-94
Leslie F. Kenne
Military
c. 1949   Retired Lt. General, US Air Force
Charles C. Krulak
Military
4-Mar-1942   US Marine Corps Commandant, 1995-99
Lester L. Lyles
Military
20-Apr-1946   Commander, USAF Materiel Command, 2000-03
James Mattis
Military
8-Sep-1950   Commander-in-Chief, CENTCOM
Haldane Robert Mayer
Judge
21-Feb-1941   US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
Stanley McChrystal
Military
14-Aug-1954   Commander, US Forces Afghanistan, 2009-10
Gary E. McCullough
Business
c. 1958   CEO of Career Education
Thomas McInerney
Military
1937   Fox News military analyst
T. Michael Moseley
Military
3-Sep-1949   USAF Chief of Staff, 2005-08
Michael Mullen
Military
4-Oct-1946   Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2007-11
Richard Myers
Military
1-Mar-1942   Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2001-05
Lloyd W. Newton
Military
26-Jun-1942   USAF General
Jim Nicholson
Government
4-Feb-1938   US Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Raymond T. Odierno
Military
c. 1954   US Army Chief of Staff
M. Scott Peck
Author
22-May-1936 25-Sep-2005 The Road Less Traveled
Joseph W. Ralston
Military
4-Nov-1943   Supreme Allied Commander, 2000-03
Charles A. Ray
Diplomat
?   US Ambassador to Cambodia, 2003-05
Donald B. Rice
Business
4-Jun-1939   Secretary of the US Air Force, 1989-93
Frances Rice
Activist
c. 1944   National Black Republican Association
John R. Ryan
Military
15-Aug-1945   Chancellor of SUNY, 2006-07
Michael E. Ryan
Military
24-Dec-1941   USAF Chief of Staff, 1997-2001
Robert Scales
Military
5-Aug-1944   Military analyst
Peter Schoomaker
Military
12-Feb-1946   US Army Chief of Staff, 2003-07
Joe Sestak
Politician
12-Dec-1951   Congressman from Pennsylvania, 2007-11
Eric Shinseki
Military
28-Nov-1942   US Secretary of Veterans Affairs
John Spratt
Politician
1-Nov-1942   Congressman from South Carolina, 1983-2011
Steve Stivers
Politician
24-Mar-1965   Congressman, Ohio 15th
Edward M. Straw
Military
c. 1939   Former US Navy Vice Admiral
Antonio Taguba
Military
31-Oct-1950   Authored Taguba Report on Abu Ghraib
Francis X. Taylor
Government
?   Counterterrorism envoy, 2001-02
Patricia A. Tracey
Military
30-Nov-1950   Former Vice Admiral, US Navy
Richard H. Truly
Astronaut
12-Nov-1937   NASA Administrator, 1989-92
William L. Waller, Jr.
Judge
c. 1952   Justice, Mississippi Supreme Court
George H. Walls, Jr.
Business
c. 1942   Retired USMC Brigadier General
Allen West
Politician
7-Feb-1961   Congressman, Florida 22nd
Togo West
Government
21-Jun-1942   US Secretary of the Army, Veterans Affairs
Robert F. Willard
Military
c. 1951   Commander-in-Chief, US Pacific Fleet
William Julius Wilson
Sociologist
20-Dec-1935   Poverty in America's inner cities
Steve Womack
Politician
18-Feb-1957   Congressman, Arkansas 3rd
Anthony Zinni
Military
17-Sep-1943   Former C-in-C, U.S. Central Command


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