Legion of Merit

General Brown previously served as the 22nd Chief of Staff to the U.S. Air Force, making him the first African American service chief in U.S. military history.

He's a decorated military pilot and has been honored with many awards, including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Bronze Star Medal, and the Legion of Merit.

After 41 years of service, General Bowne retired, although I just heard what he's doing now and it does not sound like retirement, from the Air Force in April 2025 and now serves as the executive in residence at Duke University with joint appointments in the engineering and policy schools.

In 2020, he was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People.

The most publicly known viewer to come out of the program was a man named Joseph McMoneagle, a retired Army warrant officer who claimed to have conducted over 450 sessions during his time in the program.

He was awarded the Legion of Merit, partly for classified intelligent work, uh, connected to this.

Among the cases most cited inside the program, uh, was that one viewer reported describing a new class of subie- Soviet submarines under construction at a shipyard before satellite imagery ever confirmed it even existed.

Multiple details in that session reportedly lined up with what the photographs later showed.

Oh my goodness, Mr. Upian, where are you? Uh, so to continue, uh, one of the famous and decorated viewers to come out of this program was Joe McMoneagle, known as the remote viewer 001.

And McMoneagle was retired special project intelligence officer, and he was awarded the Legion of Merit for contribution to virus intelligence operations.

He claim to have a provide information for over 150 targets that were unavailable from other sources.

He was by all accounts the star pupil in his most bizarre mission.

He's a popular incumbent, right? He has a ton of money.

But I hope they at least give her the proper introduction as not only the state treasurer, but as well that she served about 30 years in, you know, in the military and, you know, retired as a colonel, earned two Bronze Stars and a Legion of Merit.

Was she captured, though?

Big deal.

He had... and he had, uh, he was a...

he had the Legion of Merit from the French, couple of Bronze Stars.

Uh, my uncle had Silver Stars.

Um, and, uh, you know, I sometimes think what my father...

He oversaw every aspect of academic, athletic, NCAA Division III, military, and civic development, ensuring graduates were prepared to serve as officers in service to their nation.

His military awards include the Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal and Legion of Merit for awards.

No military person likes to talk about their medals and their awards, but the Legion of Merit to get one is significant.

You have four.

Can you just tell us about one?

Murray's involved in devising the interrogation techniques, so before any one of these experiments took place, he had coached the interrogator to put the OSS hopefuls through the wringer.

For all of his contributions, Murray was awarded the Legion of Merit.

And when the war ended, he resumed his post at Harvard, where he had a whole crop of students to invite to take part in his studies, like Ted Kaczynski.

Murray himself personally comes up with Ted's code name in the experiment, Lawful.

The Black Sheep were credited with 97 aerial victories across both their combat tours in the Solomons, along with a string of ground installations and shipping hits in fewer than 84 days of actual combat operations.

Three Navy Crosses, four Legions of Merit, 23 distinguished flying crosses.

The squadron that headquarters had assembled from leftovers had produced one of the most effective combat records in Marine Corps aviation history.

Boyington himself was building toward a specific number.