The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Colonel (Coast Artillery Corps) John W. Gulick, United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World War I. As Assistant Chief of the Operations Section and later as Chief of Staff of the Army Artillery of the 1st Army, Colonel Gulick demonstrated a keen conception of all of the tactical situations which confronted the artillery of the 1st Army. By his high professional attainments and sound military judgment, he handled the many complex problems of the 1st Army Artillery with marked skill, and thereby contributed, in no small degree, to the success of this unit in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives.