The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Legion of Merit to Rear Admiral (SC) Emory D. Stanley, Jr., United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Auditor General of the U.S. Navy from 1 November 1962 to 1 February 1965. Rear Admiral Stanley’s new concepts of audit utilization and audit summarization have made audit a vastly more useful service to top management. Under his leadership, Navy audit has kept pace with the rapid growth of new techniques. Knowledge and ideas on management information display have made him a sough-after advisor in this field. His direction of the Survey of Resources Utilization in the Western Pacific Area, completed in December 1964, made an important contribution to the maintenance of Pacific Fleet readiness.