Ronald A. Route is a retired Vice Admiral and former Naval Inspector General of the United States Navy and a former President of the Naval War College. On July 16,2013,Vice Admiral Route was named President of the Naval Postgraduate School.
Albert Thomas Church III is a retired vice admiral in the United States Navy. Church served as on active duty for 36 years,retiring as a vice admiral in 2005. During his service he commanded two warships,the Navy's largest shore installation at Naval Station Norfolk,Virginia,and was the longest-serving budget director of the Navy (1998–2002). Church also served as the Naval Inspector General,during which time he completed a comprehensive review of interrogation techniques used by the Department of Defense in Iraq,Afghanistan,and at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba. He is currently president of Prescient Edge Corporation,a US-based national security services and technology Firm.
Rear Admiral Robert Dunham Reilly Jr. was a United States Navy Surface Warfare Flag Officer who retired from active duty in January 2010 after 34-plus years of military service. His last assignment was as the 24th commander of the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC).
Vice Admiral David Charles Nichols Jr. is a retired senior U.S. Navy officer and Naval Flight Officer. At the time of his retirement in September 2007,he was the Deputy Commander of United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) at MacDill AFB,Florida.
Vice Admiral Melvin Gene Williams Jr. is an American retired officer in the United States Navy. He is the former Commander,U.S. Second Fleet and former Director,Combined Joint Operations from the Sea Center of Excellence.
Margaret DeLuca "Peg" Klein is a former United States Navy officer who held the rank of rear admiral at the time of her retirement in March 2017. She currently serves as the dean of the College of Leadership and Ethics at the Naval War College.
Mark Howard Buzby is a retired United States Navy rear admiral who served as the Administrator of the United States Maritime Administration. He retired from the Navy in 2013 and joined Carnival Cruise Line's Safety &Reliability Review Board. Buzby was nominated to be MARAD Administrator in June 2017 by President Donald Trump,and confirmed to the position by the United States Senate on August 3,2017. He resigned from the post on January 11,2021,along with Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao,to protest the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
James Edwin McPherson is an American government official and retired United States Navy rear admiral. He served as the General Counsel of the Army from January 2,2018 to March 24,2020. He served as the United States Under Secretary of the Army from March 25,2020,to January 20,2021,and in acting capacity from July 23,2019,to March 24,2020. He served as Acting United States Secretary of the Navy from April 7,2020,to May 29,2020,following the resignation of Thomas Modly.
Rear Admiral Linda Jeanne Bird,SC,USN,was the first woman in the United States Navy Supply Corps promoted to flag rank.
Derwood Clayiborne Curtis is a retired vice admiral in the United States Navy who served as the Commander,Naval Surface Forces and concurrently Commander,Naval Surface Force,U.S. Pacific Fleet from March 2008 to June 2011.
Clifford Lee Stanley was the United States Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness,having resigned that office in 2011.
Peter Joseph Fanta is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters who served in February 2018.
John Francis Kirby is a retired rear admiral in the United States Navy serving as Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House since late May 2022. He previously served as Pentagon Press Secretary for the first year and a half of the Biden Administration,and worked as a military and diplomatic analyst for CNN from 2017 to 2021. He served in the Obama administration as the spokesperson for the United States Department of State from 2015 to 2017.
David Folk Baucom is a retired United States Navy Rear Admiral. Among Baucom's military roles were White House military aide to the president,director of the US Central Command Deployment and Distribution Operations Center in Kuwait,commander of Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support,commander of Fleet &Industrial Supply Center in Norfolk,Virginia,and strategy and policy director of the US Transportation Command. Baucom is currently senior director at Vintun LLC.
Althea Helen "Allie" Coetzee Leslie is a retired rear admiral in the United States Navy who served as Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration from August 2017 to April 2018. Prior to her role with the Small Business Administration,she served as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,Technology and Logistics. Coetzee was confirmed as Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration by the U.S. Senate on August 3,2017. She resigned as the Deputy Administrator on April 15,2018.
Edward Masso is a businessman and retired United States Navy Rear Admiral who was nominated by President Donald Trump to become the next United States Ambassador to Estonia. He is the founder and president of Flagship Connection,a consulting company focused on business development,strategic planning,and operations analysis in the areas of missile defense,cyber security,and data analytics. During his 32-year career in the U.S. Navy,he held nine command assignments,including Commander,Navy Personnel Command/Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel. He has served in NATO and the United States European Command. Masso is a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in cyber security.
Christopher Watson Grady is a United States Navy admiral who serves as the 12th vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since December 20,2021. He most recently served as the commander of United States Fleet Forces Command and United States Naval Forces Northern Command from May 2018 to December 2021,with additional duties as commander of United States Naval Forces Strategic Command and Joint Force Maritime Component Commander from February 2019. He previously served as commander of the United States Sixth Fleet,commander of Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO,deputy commander of United States Naval Forces Europe - Naval Forces Africa and Joint Force Maritime Component Commander Europe from October 2016 to March 2018.
Jon Christopher Kreitz is a retired United States Navy Rear Admiral and former Deputy Director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. He is an Independent Director on the Board of Directors of the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) and a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Surface Navy Association (SNA).
Paul J. Schlise is a rear admiral in the United States Navy.
Richard Duke Heinz is a United States Navy rear admiral who serves as the director of logistics of the United States European Command.
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