(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Commander Timothy J. Keen, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Special Technical Assistant to the head of the Special Navy Task Force for Surface Missile Systems, from September 1963 to August 1965. Commander Keen contributed materially to the solution of missile problems and to the TERRIER TARTAR and TALOS weapons systems, in order to bring about a satisfactory state of readiness in the shortest possible time.