The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting Legion of Merit to Rear Admiral Frank Joseph Gorman, United States Coast Guard, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Chief Finance Officer for the Coast Guard from the beginning of the emergency to March 1943 and as Chief Finance and Supply Officer from March 1943 to June 1945. Exercising organization skill keen judgment and technical ability he has ably discharge his duties in the formulation of the financial requirements for the Coast Guard and their presentation to the Budget Bureau and the Congress; in the supplying of clothing, commissary goods and general materials to Coast Guard units throughout the United States and overseas and to vessels afloat in the dispersing of funds to service personnel and in payment of obligations; and in the selection training and assignment of finance and supply personnel for the Coast Guard. Of inestimable assistance as special advisor to the Commandant on matters or organization, legislation and administrative policy he devised the plan followed for the orderly demobilization of his branch of the service from war to peacetime status. By his devotion to duty he has made substantial contribution to the wartime accomplishments of the Coast Guard.