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Navy SEAL Nathan Gage Ingram was posthumously awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal on April 18, 2025, for his actions during an Arabian Sea mission on Jan. 11, 2024.

The Navy officially established the SEAL program in 1962, with the credit historically going to President John F. Kennedy, who had been a naval combat officer himself.

The Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism has been posthumously awarded to Nathan Gage Ingram, a Coronado-based Navy SEAL who was lost at sea last year while trying to help stem the flow of ...