Staff Reports
Naval Officer, Lt. Jacob W. Corlew, of the Dexter area, recently received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (NAM) with citation.
On Sept. 27 the Secretary of the Navy awarded Lt. Corlew the medal in lieu of his outstanding professional achievement in the superior performance of his duties as assistant department head of the Pharmacy Department at the Naval Hospital in Pensacola, Fla.
Capt. A.H. Branstetter, Nurse Corps, United States Navy stated, "Lt. Corlew's exceptional professionalism, unrelenting perseverance and loyal devotion to duty reflected credit upon him and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service."
Lt. Corlew previously worked 11 years in the medical field in Poplar Bluff prior to his Naval service.