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Rear Admiral Jan E. Tighe – CAPSTONE

Rear Admiral Jan E. Tighe is a Capstone Fellow in group FY2012-1.  Rear Admiral Tighe is currently serving as the N2N6F4 – Director, Decision Superiority on the OPNAV Staff.  She earned her PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from the Naval Postgraduate School. 

Education at the general/flag officer level is inherently joint and unified in nature. Its focus is on the highest levels of strategy, integrating the elements of national power to achieve national security objectives. In particular, the CAPSTONE course reinforces new general/flag officer comprehension of joint matters and national security strategy needed for the remainder of an officer’s career.
She’ll return to the OPNAV staff upon completion of Capstone in November 2011.

Diversity we can believe in – diverse in experience, background and ideas

Ready Sailors and Civilians will remain the source of the Navy’s warfighting capability.

  • Our people will be diverse in experience, background and ideas; personally and professionally ready; and proficient in the operation of their weapons and systems.
  • Our Sailors and Civilians will continue a two-century tradition of warfighting excellence, adaptation, and resilience.
  • Our character and our actions will remain guided by our commitment to the nation and to each other as part of one Navy team.

From the CNO’s Tenets.

Profession of Arms

“We must renew our commitment to the Profession of Arms. We’re not a profession simply because we say we’re a profession. We must continue to learn, to understand, and to promote the knowledge, skills, attributes, and behaviors that define us as a profession.”

General Dempsey
U.S. Army
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff 

History in the making

Yesterday was a day marked by a little bit of naval history in the making.  You had to have been there to really capture the whole of it.
Somewhere around 1530 on Friday, 30 September, the Navy’s Cryptologist, Vice Admiral Michael S. Rogers broke his 3 star Flag for the first time when he assumed command of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. TENTH Fleet at Fort McHenry, Maryland.
Some readers will recall Fort McHenry’s historical significance and others are completely unaware.  Here’s some of it… During the war of 1812, beginning at 6:00 A.M. on September 13, 1814, British warships bombarded the fort for 25 hours. Due to the poor accuracy of the British weapons at maximum range, and the limited range of the American guns, very little damage was done on either side, but the British ceased their attack on the morning of September 14, 1814, and the naval part of the British invasion of Baltimore had been repulsed.
Francis Scott Key, a Washington lawyer who had come to Baltimore to negotiate the release of Dr. William Beanes, a civilian “Prisoner of war”, witnessed the bombardment from a nearby truce ship. An oversized American flag had been sewn by Mary Pickersgill in anticipation of the British attack on the fort. When Key saw the flag emerge intact in the dawn of September 14, he was so moved that he began that morning to compose the poem “The Defence of Fort McHenry” which would later be renamed and become the United States National anthem.
Now, how cool is it that VADM Rogers breaks his flag as a 3 star for the first time in this historic place?  The 15 gun salute was icing on the cake.  It was awe inspiring.  It really was.

True Gentleman

“The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; 
  • who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; 
  • who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; 
  • who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; 
  • whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and 
  • who appears well in any company; 
  • a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.”

– John Walter Wayland 1899