Medal of Honor | Meritorious Service Medal (United States) | Meritorious Service Medal | Bronze Star Medal | National Defense Service Medal | Suzanne Vega | Newbery Medal | Distinguished Service Medal | Air Medal | Brownlow Medal | Distinguished Service Medal (Army) | Defense Superior Service Medal | Presidential Medal of Freedom | National Medal of Science | Congressional Gold Medal | Vega | Lope de Vega | Caldecott Medal | Vietnam Service Medal | Commendation Medal | Distinguished Conduct Medal | medal | IRI Medal | Davy Medal | Queen's Police Medal | Military Medal | Medal | Vietnam Campaign Medal | Defense Distinguished Service Medal | Achievement Medal |
He was further honored by receiving the Vega Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG) (Swedish: Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi) in 1983, and the Alexander Agassiz Medal of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1989 for his isotopic studies on Pleistocene and Holocene planktic foraminifera.