The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Navy Cross (Posthumously) to Private Meyer Stengel (MCSN: 209916), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism in battle when on the occasion of an engagement with armed bandits in the vicinity of Ililihuas, Nicaragua, 7 August 1928, he, well knowing the extreme danger involved, voluntarily acted as a connecting unit between two separate Marine patrols at the time under extremely heavy enemy fire and as a result received wounds which later resulted in his death.