The "Legion of Merit" to a Navy officer

(To Marina Militare)
26/09/18

On 25 September Lewis M. Eisenberg, ambassador of the United States of America to the Italian Republic awarded Admiral Valter Zappellini and General Luca Goretti with the American honor The legion of merit.

La Legion of Merit it is a particularly prestigious recognition. It is a decoration, subdivided into degrees, established in the 1942 and granted to US military and allied nations.

The degree of decoration granted to our senior officer is "Degree of officer", the second in ascending order of value. Among the reasons for the recognition, as emphasized by Ambassador Eisenberg, the important career of the high officer of the Navy and the brilliant results achieved by Admiral Zappellini - who held the position of Naval Attaché in Washington from 2013 to 2016 - in cooperation between Italy and the USA.