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Flag Officer Assignments

No. 583-10
July 07, 2010
Flag Officer Assignments

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead announced today the following assignments:

Capt. Willie L. Metts, who has been selected for promotion to rear admiral (lower half), will be assigned as director of intelligence, J2, U.S. Cyber Command, Fort George G. Meade, Md. Metts is currently serving as the division director, information and intelligence operations, PERS 47, Navy Personnel Command, Millington, Tenn.

Capt. Jan E. Tighe, who has been selected for promotion to rear admiral (lower half), will be assigned as deputy director of operations, J3, U.S. Cyber Command, Fort George G. Meade, Md. Tighe is currently serving as the executive assistant to the director, National Security Agency, Fort George G. Meade, Md.

U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)

Mentoring: The CPO Quarters

Admiral Paul David Miller had this to say about mentoring and Navy Chief Petty Officers:

“My father, a Boatswains Mate Chief, was a strict disciplinarian, which probably helped. He was principled in the Ten Commandments, and I lived by them as a child while being raised at home. There was no lying, cheating, or stealing. The bosun instilled in me that if I served in the military, I should do it as an officer. When I was twelve or thirteen years old, he would take me down to his ships and turn me over to first-class petty officers or second class petty officers. I would work for them as a seaman. This experience gave me a grassroots understanding of the Navy and drummed into me the importance of an education. Because of this relationship, when I became an officer, I was automatically part of the Chiefs’ Quarters, having been in Chiefs’ Quarters when I was a teenager.”

From AMERICAN ADMIRALSHIP – The Art of Naval Command

First Printing Sold Out !!

If you haven’t already purchased Admiral James Stavridis’ book, DESTROYER CAPTAIN, you missed your opportunity to own a First Edition copy. Not to worry, they are already printing the second edition. This is a great book. Required reading for those with any interest at all in leadership, the Navy, destroyers, command at sea, Sailors, Chief Petty Officers or serving one’s country. I am biased, but this is a great companion tome for Michael Abrashoff’s IT’S YOUR SHIP. Two completely different approaches to telling the story about the considerable challenges and rewards of ‘destroyer command’.

Good training and leadership


“… all the wonderful platforms aren’t worth the metal or the composite material that they are made from if we don’t have motivated and dedicated Sailors to bring them to life. Motivated and dedicated Sailors are produced by two main things – good training and good leadership.”

Admiral Jay Johnson, Chief of Naval Operations