(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Captain James M. Werth, 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 in successive positions of extreme responsibility from June 1965 to August 1966, as, initially, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, J-4, and commencing in December 1965, as Deputy for Special Projects, Assistant Chief of Staff, J-4, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam.