Ben Bradlee served in U.S. Navy, The U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation will present Lone Sailor Awards to Ben Bradlee, Vice President at Large of The Washington Post, and Adm. Standsfield Turner, who served 30 years in the Navy before becoming Director of the CIA from 1977 to 1981.
Both men began their careers as young naval officers serving mainly on Navy destroyers. Bradlee served in the Pacific during World War II and Turner served with the Seventh Fleet in Vietnam. He was promoted to rear admiral and took command of a Sixth Fleet Carrier Task Group in the Mediterranean, and then he served as 36th president of the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. In 1975 Turner earned a fourth star and was promoted to admiral where he served as Commander-in-Chief of NATO's Southern Flank, headquartered in Naples, Italy.
Bradlee served throughout World War II as a combat information officer and then entered the newspaper business. His career flourished when he became executive editor of The Washington Post, where he led his paper through the breaking of the Watergate scandal.
The U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation will present Lone Sailor Awards to Bradlee and Turner at the Foundation's Lone Sailor Dinner on Wednesday, March 10, 2004.
The Lone Sailor Award is annually presented to sea service veterans who have distinguished themselves in civilian life through public service and national leadership.
The dinner and award presentation will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Academy Award Winning actor Ernest Borgnine will be the Masters of Ceremonies of the event. Borgnine is a 1987 recipient of the Lone Sailor Award. Borgnine served in the Navy as a chief gunners mate during World War II.
Proceeds from the Lone Sailor Awards Dinner fund U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation educational and commemoration programs. The U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation is a non-profit organization, founded in 1977, as a living tribute to all sea service veterans and active duty and reservists in the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine.
Both men began their careers as young naval officers serving mainly on Navy destroyers. Bradlee served in the Pacific during World War II and Turner served with the Seventh Fleet in Vietnam. He was promoted to rear admiral and took command of a Sixth Fleet Carrier Task Group in the Mediterranean, and then he served as 36th president of the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. In 1975 Turner earned a fourth star and was promoted to admiral where he served as Commander-in-Chief of NATO's Southern Flank, headquartered in Naples, Italy.
Bradlee served throughout World War II as a combat information officer and then entered the newspaper business. His career flourished when he became executive editor of The Washington Post, where he led his paper through the breaking of the Watergate scandal.
The U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation will present Lone Sailor Awards to Bradlee and Turner at the Foundation's Lone Sailor Dinner on Wednesday, March 10, 2004.
The Lone Sailor Award is annually presented to sea service veterans who have distinguished themselves in civilian life through public service and national leadership.
The dinner and award presentation will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Academy Award Winning actor Ernest Borgnine will be the Masters of Ceremonies of the event. Borgnine is a 1987 recipient of the Lone Sailor Award. Borgnine served in the Navy as a chief gunners mate during World War II.
Proceeds from the Lone Sailor Awards Dinner fund U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation educational and commemoration programs. The U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation is a non-profit organization, founded in 1977, as a living tribute to all sea service veterans and active duty and reservists in the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine.
