The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Electrician’s Mate Fireman Jimmie G. Dawkins, United States Navy, for heroism on the morning of 17 September 1964, while serving aboard U.S.S. KEARSARGE (CVS-33) in the South China Sea. A shipmate accidentally touched off a 440-volt heating coil and slumped into unconsciousness while repairing electric ovens in the ship’s bakery. Electrician’s Mate Fireman Dawkins, realizing the power to the ovens could not be secured in time to save the man, quickly threw himself against his stricken shipmate and succeeded in dislodging him from the coil. By his prompt action, Electrician’s Mate Fireman Dawkins saved a life at the risk of his own.