This marks the fifth time a Navy vessel has donned the Intrepid name, and the first since 1974, when the carrier Intrepid was decommissioned.
Biden will bestow the medal posthumously to six men and one living recipient at a White House ceremony.
Chandler, who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters on Dec. 7, 1941, is the third Pearl Harbor survivor to die in the past few weeks.
The MQ-1 accumulated more than 1 million flight hours in reconnaissance and combat missions.
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