Meritorious Service Decorations - Military Division
Meritorious Service Medal
Awarded on: 2003-07-11
Invested on: 2003-12-05
Command Director in the NORAD Command Center, Capt(N) Jellinek initiated the required action plans for the successful NORAD response to the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001, by coordinating national aerospace defence plans for bi-national tactical warning and attack assessment. As personal representative of the Commander-in-Chief NORAD for daily operations, Capt(N) Jellinek was also responsible for the direction of several hundred military aircraft newly included under NORAD’s control, and for the coordination of the grounding of all commercial air traffic in North America. Capt(N) Jellinek carried out his responsibilities with calm, leadership and professionalism and brought great credit to himself, to the Canadian Forces and to Canada.