2025: Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin
2024: Gov. Gretchen E. Whitmer, Michigan & Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, Oregon
2023: Gov. Lourdes A. Leon Guerrero, Guam & U.S. Rep. Trent Kelly, Mississippi
2022: Gov. John Bel Edwards, Louisiana & Gen. James C. McConville, Massachusetts
2021: None
2020: Sen. Roger Wicker, Mississippi & U.S. Rep. Kay Granger, Texas
2019: Sens. John Hoeven, North Dakota & Joe Manchin, West Virginia
2018: Sens. Johnny Isakson, Georgia & Jon Tester, Montana
2017: U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, Minnesota
2016: Gen. Mark A. Welsh III (Ret), Texas
2015: Gov. Terry E. Branstad, Iowa & U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, Arkansas
2014: U.S. Rep. Harold Rogers, Kentucky
2013: U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young, Florida
2012: U.S. Reps. Candice Miller, Michigan & Nick Rahall, West Virginia
2011: Sen. Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii
2010: Sen. Ben Nelson, Nebraska
2009: U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, Hawaii
2008: Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Georgia
2007: U.S. Reps. Tom Davis, Virginia & Gene Taylor, Mississippi
2006: U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton, Missouri
2005: Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, South Carolina
2004: Sen. Carl M. Levin, Michigan
2003: Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont
2002: Gov. Tom Ridge, Pennsylvania
2001: None
2000: Sen. John Warner, Virginia
1999: None
1998: Sen. Trent Lott, Mississippi
1997: Sen. Ted Stevens, Alaska
1996: None
1995: Sens. Kit Bond, Missouri & Wendell H. Ford, Kentucky
1994: Sen. Robert Dole, Kansas
1993: U.S. Rep. John Murtha, Pennsylvania
1992: Sen. Jake Garn, Utah
1991: Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, Hawaii
1990: Gen. John W. Vessey, Jr.
1989: President George Bush
1988: Secretary Edward C. “Pete” Aldridge
1987: U.S. Rep. Bill Chappell, Jr., Florida
1986: Secretary of the Army, John O. Marsh, Jr.
1985: Melvin R. Laird
1984: President Ronald Reagan
1983: U.S. Rep. G.V. “Sonny” Montgomery, Mississippi
1982: Sen. J. Strom Thurmond, South Carolina
1981: None
1980: None
1979: None
1978: Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer
1977: None
1976: Sen. John L. McClellan, Arkansas
1975: Sen. John C. Stennis, Mississippi
1974: None
1973: None
1972: Bob Hope
1971: None
1970: President Richard Nixon
1969: Gen. William C. Westmoreland