LT. Robert Wetzel walks between CHIEF of Naval Operations Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, left, and Secretary of the Navy H. Lawrence Garrett III following a ceremony held in honor of Wetzel and two other former prisoners of war (POWs). Wetzel, LT. Jeffrey Zaun and LT. Lawrence Slade had been shot down during Operation Desert Storm and were among the first group of ten coalition POWs released by Iraq on March 4th.