(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Rear Admiral William A. Brockett, 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 Chief, Bureau of Ships and Coordinator of Shipbuilding (Conversion and Repair) for the Department of Defense from April 1963 to February 1966, for his leadership in the construction, conversion and repair of ships.