Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) accepts the Distinguished Service Award from Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, former Ambassador to the UN, Iraq and Afghanistan, Chairman and CEO, Khalilzad Associates LLC, and Member of the Center’s Board and Dimitri K. Simes, President and CEO of the Center for the National Interest

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and General Lloyd Austin, Vice Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army

The Center for the National Interest held its 2012 Distinguished Service Award Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel. The dinner honored Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The dinner also included remarks by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), 1997 Distinguished Service Award Recipient, Admiral Michael Mullen, USN (Ret.), 2008 Distinguished Award Recipient, General Charles G. Boyd, USA (Ret.), a member of the board of directors for the Center for the National Interest and Maurice Greenberg, 2000 Distinguished Service Award Recipient.

— report by Kate Oczypok and photographs by Kaveh Sardari

Admiral Michael Mullen, (Ret., USN), former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Boyd (Ret., USAF), Member of the Center for the National Interest’s Board and Ambassador Marc Grossman, the State Department’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan

Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman of the Center’s Board and Chairman, Chairman of the Distinguished Service Award Dinner and CEO of C.V. Starr & Co., James Gilmore, former Governor of Virginia and John McLaughlin, former Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency