The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Legion of Merit to Chief Yeoman William E. Pink, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States while serving with the NROTC Unit at Pennsylvania State University from June 1953 to February 1957, and with the Training Division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel at Washington, D.C. from February 1957 to August 1958. In addition to his primary duties, Chief Yeoman Pink conducted a paperwork simplification program, originated and prepared a 287-page office procedures manual based upon a detailed job analysis of every administrative procedure required at an NROTC Unit. In June 1956, he volunteered to establish and carry out a critically needed program of paperwork simplification and standardization for all fifty-three NROTC units. He completed the program in the Bureau, personally preparing and illustrating the “NROTC Officer Procedures Manual,” a concise and clear cut work which will save the Navy time and money.