(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Captain (MC) David P. Osborne, 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 of Surgery, U.S. Naval Hospital, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, from March 1960 to November 1966, the latter five months of which time he also functioned as the Director of Clinical Services to the Commanding Officer of the Hospital; and for continuing as the Director of Clinical Services and Coordinator of the Department of Surgery from November 1966 to July 1967.