Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden present The Dr. Daniel E. Salmon Award to Lieutenant Colonel Melinda Eaton, USAF, (accepting Caroline Tuckhorn and Dr. Michael Gilsford) for outstanding contributions and notable service in the public's interest by a federally employed veterinarian who has no more than 10 years of service at the 2013 Secretary's Honor Awards in the Jefferson Auditorium at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. This award was established in 1985 to honor the first director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Animal Industry and is sponsored annually by the National Association of Federal Veterinarians. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
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