Meritorious Service Decorations - Military Division
Meritorious Service Medal
Awarded on: 2022-04-28
Invested on: 2023-09-11
From March to August 2021, Commander O’Donohue was deployed to the Indo-Pacific region as the commanding officer of Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Calgary, where he led Canada’s naval contribution to global security, counter-terrorism and maritime interdiction operations. At the helm of the first Royal Canadian Navy warship to transit the disputed Spratly Islands, he maximized opportunities to demonstrate Canada’s interoperability. In addition, under his exemplary leadership, the mission carried out 17 successful heroin seizures, which resulted in more than US$95 million being kept out of terrorist hands.