 Petty Officer First Class Jason Perry from Commander Submarine Group 2 was awarded the George Van Cleve Military Leadership Award December 13th at the 51st United Service Organizations or USO Armed Forces Gala and Gold Medal Dinner in New York. Perry said receiving the award was an unexpected honor. It's incredibly humbling to receive an award of this magnitude. I really honestly just doing my job and this is just I'm kind of shocked by the whole thing. It's really been an emotional experience and just really pleasantly surprised by how much support I've received from my command, from the USO, from I mean just everybody. Perry received the award which recognizes outstanding commitment, service and achievements of individuals of the armed forces for his experience in Iraq. He served as an individual augmentee from August 2009 through March 2010 with SEAL teams 1 and 2 and Naval Special Warfare Group 1 while attached to Special Operations Task Force West. I was part of the public affairs attachment there and I worked with Naval Special Warfare. We were able to come up with a program, Allianne Barr is the most wanted and we were actually able to remove a lot of the bad folks from the streets of the Anbar province and got to see that firsthand. During the ceremony the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, received the USO's Distinguished Service Award for four decades of service to the nation. Greenert attributed the award to the Navy men and women serving today. I'm very fortunate to have the greatest job in the world, to represent the men and women, the sailors and the civilians of the Navy. And really the award I accepted on behalf of them, I'm fortunate to lead them. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Amara Timberlake.