The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Commander Joseph W. Roosevelt, United States Naval Reserve, for heroism at the risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy. Commander Roosevelt, at the peril to his own life, attempted the rescue of his shipmates, while serving on board the U.S.S. GREENE (APD-36), which as a result of the typhoon on 9 October 1945, was stranded on Kataka Shima, Buckner Bay, Okinawa Gunto.