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Media mogul Ted Turner, former Coastie, receives Lone Sailor Award

By Meghann Myers on September 20, 2013 Navy

Media mogul Ted Turner is known for a lot of things: Founding CNN, a long marriage to actress Jane Fonda, and once proclaiming he wanted to buy so much land that he could ride his horse from Canada to Mexico without leaving his own property, among others. But did you know that once upon a time, he was in the Coast Guard? He was, and Wednesday night at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., the Navy Memorial presented him with the 2013 Lone Sailor Award. “My time in the Coast Guard was life-changing,” Turner said in a Navy Memorial…

2013 Lone Sailor honorees: GM CEO, former Marine commandant, media mogul Turner

By Kevin Lilley on August 27, 2013 Navy

The Navy Memorial’s trio of 2013 Lone Sailor awardees have worn the uniforms of the Navy, the Marines, the Coast Guard … and even the Atlanta Braves. General Motors CEO Dan Akerson (Naval Academy Class of 1970), retired Marine Corps Gen. P.X. Kelley and Ted Turner, who served in the Coast Guard briefly before creating a media empire, will be honored by the organization at a Sept. 18 dinner in Washington, D.C. The award goes to “sea service veterans who have excelled with distinction in their respective civilian careers while exemplifying the Navy’s core values of honor, courage and commitment,” according…

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