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Article: LTJG Robert McKay, SC, USNR--the only supply officer to earn the silver star.(Supply Corps)(Brief Article)(Biography)
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- Navy Supply Corps Newsletter
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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From the time we enter the Navy, it is stressed we are naval officers first, supply officers second. In fact, the Supply Corps guiding principles state "We are first and foremost naval officers, integral members of the warfighting team, focused on mission accomplishment."
Nowhere was this principle demonstrated more than in the service of LTJG Robert Neil McKay, Supply Officer of the USS Aaron Ward (DM 34) during the final stages of World War II.
McKay was one of 287 supply officers and pay clerks killed while serving in World War II. For bravery on board the Aaron Ward during a series of kamikaze attacks on May 3, 1945, LTJG McKay was posthumously ...