Peltier Award

The Peltier Award is named in honor of Rear Adm. Eugene J. Peltier, CEC, USN. It is presented to most outstanding engineering units of the U.S. Navy. The plaque was first awarded in 1960.


Eligibility: Naval Mobile Construction Battalions

Criteria: Most outstanding unit


Please contact your chain of command for information about the Uniformed Service Awards nomination process.  SAME provides a formal ceremony for recipients.

Past Peltier Award Recipients

  • 2015 Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 11
  • 2014 Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 11, Gulfport, Miss.
  • 2013 Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 113
  • 2012 Naval Mobile Construction Battalion ELEVEN Gulfport, Miss.
  • 2011 Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40
  • 2010 Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4
  • 2009 Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5
  • 2008 Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5
  • 2007 Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3
  • 2006 NMCB 133, Gulfport, Miss.
  • 2005
  • 2004 NMCB 1, commanded by Cmdr. Louis V. Cariello
  • 2003 NMCB 74, commanded by Cmdr. Clifford M. Maurer
  • 2002 NMCB 133, commanded by Cmdr. Douglas G. Morton
  • 2001 NMCB 1, commanded by Cmdr. Michael L. Blount
  • 2000 NMCB 5, commanded by Cmdr. Mark A. Handley
  • 1999 NMCB 74, commanded by Cmdr. Francis P. Castaldo
  • 1998 NMCB 133, commanded by Cmdr. Paul Bosco
  • 1997 NMCB 1, commanded by Cmdr. Wayne G. Shear
  • 1996 NMCB 133, commanded by Cmdr. Gary A. Engle
  • 1995 NMCB 40, commanded by Cmdr. Micheal K. Loose
  • 1994 NMCB 74, commanded by Cmdr. Ronald W. Hertig, Jr.
  • 1993 NMCB 5, commanded by Cmdr. Robert L. Phillips
  • 1992 NMCB 133, commanded by Douglas F. Elznic
  • 1990 NMCB 4, commanded by Cmdr. James T. Corbett
  • 1989 NMCB 7, commanded by Cmdr. James T. Corbett
  • 1988 NMCB 133, commanded by Cmdr. Harold B. St. Peter
  • 1987 NMCB 3, commanded by Cmdr. Frank P. DeGeorge III
  • 1986 NMCB 40, commanded by Cmdr. Alec T. Pringle
  • 1985 NMCB 4, commanded by Cmdr. James W. Owens, II
  • 1984 NMCB 133, commanded by Cmdr. Andrew A. Kannegieser
  • 1983 NMCB 133, commanded by Cmdr.. Andrew A. Kannegieser
  • 1982 NMCB 133, commanded by Capt. Dorwin C. Black
  • 1981 NMCB 1, commanded by Cmdr. Jack E. Buffington
  • 1980 NMCB 133, commanded by Capt. Herbert H. Lewis, Jr.
  • 1979 NMCB 62, commanded by Capt. Julian M. F Kau
  • 1978 NMCB 74, commanded by Cmdrs. Arthur W. Fort and Donald L. McCorvey, Jr.
  • 1977 MCB 62, commanded by Cmdr. Charles E. Legley, III
  • 1976 NMCB 3, commanded by Cmdrs. James E. McNeill and John A. Westcott
  • 1975 NMCB 4, commanded by Cmdr.Malcolm J. Macdonald
  • 1974 NMCB 71, commanded by Lt. Cmdrs. William H. Kay, Jr., and Gerard A. Zimmermann
  • 1973 NMCB 10, commanded by Cmdr. John M. Weis
  • 1972 NMCB 1, commanded by Cmdr. Philip Oliver, Jr.
  • 1971 NMCB 4, commanded by Cmdrs. Roy D. Gaulden and J.A. Ruscyk
  • 1970 NMCB 62, commanded by Cmdrs. John Paul Jones, Jr., and Frank M. Newcomb
  • 1969 NMCB 62, commanded by Cmdrs. William J. Richeson and John Paul Jones, Jr.
  • 1968 NMCB 5, commanded by Cmdrs. Edward J. Williams, Jr. and Robert B. Wilson
  • 1967 NMCB 10, commanded by Cmdrs. Thomas C. Williams and Delmar A. Bartley
  • 1966 NMCB 1, commanded by Cmdrs. Richard T. Hardy and Paul R. Gates
  • 1965 NMCB 9, commanded by Cmdr. R.E. Anderson
  • 1964 NMCB 9, commanded by Cmdr. A.C. Perkins
  • 1963 MCB7, commanded successively by Cmdrs. A.M. LaLonde and C.C. Heid
  • 1962 MCB1, commanded successively by Cmdrs, C.M. Howe and R.H. Miller
  • 1961 NMCB 7, commanded by Cmdr. E.E. Gibbons
  • 1960 Mobile Construction Battalion 9, commanded by Cmdr. Ferdinand W. Arnold