Recipients

Lance Eagan graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut, Class of 1962.

On April 29, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Chavez’s remains had been identified. Family plot at Hillcrest Cemetery in Gallup, New Mexico.…

Oscar Tibbets was at Thanksgiving day dinner when word was received of a U.S. pilot shot down deep in enemy territory. He volunteered along with…

Juan Jacquez was interned as a Prisoner of War in Southeast Asia after he was captured in South Vietnam on May 11, 1969 and was…