The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Legion of Merit to Captain (SC) Jack G. Dean, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States during the period September 1962 to August 1963, while serving as Commanding Officer, Naval Supply Depot, Newport, Rhode Island. Captain Dean conceived and implemented the self-service concept for the issue of high-volume, low-cost general stores items and common repair parts, known today as SERVMART. Through this accomplishment, he has been instrumental in effecting savings to the Government of approximately $100,000 per month, in addition to untold savings in man-hours. SERVMART was such a huge success at NSD Newport, that is has been adopted at the three major continental supply centers and the Naval Shipyard, Charleston, with over-all systems savings estimated at $6,000,000 per year. Utilizing automatic data processing, Captain Dean conceived a new method for processing stores received which has resulted in the material being available for issue to the Fleet in two to three working days in lieu of 14 days under previous procedures.