The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Corporal John M. Cobb (MCSN: 214347), United States Marine Corps, for distinguished service in the line of his profession, while commanding a Nicaraguan National Guard Patrol. Corporal John M. Cobb, U.S.M.C., on 7 June 1930, engaged and routed a superior force of about fifty armed bandits at Mancallon, killing five of them. On 6 August 1930, Corporal Cobb, acting as second in command of a patrol, contributed greatly to the complete routing of a superior force of about forty-five armed bandits at Nance Dulce, which resulted in killing six of the enemy; on 15 August 1930 a patrol under his command routed a superior force of about twenty armed bandits at Los Carbonales killing two and wounding four of them. By his intelligent and forceful leadership, without thought of his personal safety or loss to his command, Corporal Cobb dealt two successive and severe blows and materially assisted in delivering another against organized banditry in the Republic of Nicaragua.