Gardiner L. Caskey

The Navy Cross is presented to Gardiner L. Caskey, Commander, U.S. Navy, for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility as assistant in the Bureau of Ordnance in charge of the supply and distribution of powder and other explosives. Through his wise and far-seeing initiative and his able and energetic administration, an abundant supply of powder and explosives was on hand at the beginning of the war and the supply was maintained, and so efficiently distributed that ammunition was available at all times to meet the rapidly expanding demands, not only of the Navy, but of great numbers of auxiliaries and merchant vessels armed by the Navy.