(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Rear Admiral (MC) Frank Peter Kreuz, Jr., United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as District Medical Officer, NINTH Naval District and Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois, from February 1962 to June 1966, for increasing the recruitment of potential medical officers in his district five-fold; for personally seeking to assure that all patients in the hospital were progressing properly and were furnished any reasonable service that could be provided; and for establishing special accommodations for families of patients on the serious or critical lists since no public accommodations were available.