Marine Gets Navy Cross Then Hulbert Trophy For Leadership

This Navy Cross recipient just won an award named for one of the baddest Marines ever
Marine Corps Times
Lance M. Bacon
April 23, 2016

“Amateurs train until they get it right; professionals train until they can’t get it wrong.” Chief Warrant Officer 3 Anthony Viggiani, the 2015 Hulbert Trophy recipient

The Marines' top general selected Chief Warrant Officer 3 Anthony Viggiani as the next Hulbert Trophy recipient a decade after the gunner's leadership on the battlefield earned him the nation's second-highest valor award.

With bloodstains visible on the lower portion of his left trouser leg, then-Sgt. Anthony Viggiani pauses to look at the camera moments after a fierce firefight with anti-coalition militia in central Afghanistan. Viggiani, now a chief warrant officer 3, was selected as the 2015 Gunner Henry Lewis Hulbert Trophy for Outstanding Leadership.
(Photo: Gunnery Sgt. Keith A. Milks/Marine Corps)

Viggiani will be receive the Gunner Henry Lewis Hulbert Trophy for Outstanding Leadership for his contributions at Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry – West, where he trains Marines responsible for creating the next generation of infantrymen. The annual accolade is presented to the infantry weapons officer who "most exemplifies outstanding leadership, courage and technical, tactical and doctrinal expertise within the Marine gunner community," according to the award criteria.

The Hulbert Trophy is named for Capt. Henry Lewis Hulbert, a prior-enlisted Medal of Honor recipient who served in Samoa and World War I and is considered the Marine Corps’ first gunner. He was killed in action during the famed battle of Blanc Mont Ridge, France, on Oct. 4, 1918. Hulbert was 51 when he died, and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for actions in Chateau-Thierry, France, on June 6, 1918, when he "constantly" braved enemy fire "without regard for personal danger, thereby assuring the delivery of supplies."
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