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Captain James A Kirk, Commander of the USS USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000)
Americas Navy ^ | 6/13/2013 | Americas Navy

Posted on 06/13/2013 7:41:26 PM PDT by Dallas59



Captain Kirk is a native of Bethesda, Maryland and raised in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He was commissioned at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1990 and has served in a variety of afloat and ashore billets as a Surface Warfare Officer. He has served afloat on destroyers, cruisers, frigates and staffs including USS Fife (DD 991), USS The Sullivans (DDG 68), USS Hue City (CG 66), USS John S. McCain (DDG 56), and as a Gas Turbine Inspector on the staff of Commander, Pacific Fleet. His most recent sea duty includes command of USS De Wert (FFG 45) and Operations Officer for Carrier Strike Group Seven, Ronald Reagan Strike Group. Ashore, Captain Kirk has served as Executive Assistant to the Navy’s Chief of Legislative Affairs and as an Action Officer on the Joint Staff. He has attended both the U.S. Naval War College and U. S. Army War College graduating with Masters Degrees in National Security Studies. He is currently serving as the Executive Assistant to the Director of Surface Warfare and is the prospective commanding officer of USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000).


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1 posted on 06/13/2013 7:41:26 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59
someone needs to steer his career towards:

CVN-65 USS Enterprise

2 posted on 06/13/2013 7:44:40 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Dallas59

Too bad he couldn’t have been the last captain of the USS Enterprise.


3 posted on 06/13/2013 7:45:44 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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4 posted on 06/13/2013 7:46:00 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Q: The worst president in US history?)
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If I was in his shoes I’d change my middle name to something more appropriate!


5 posted on 06/13/2013 7:47:24 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: sten

She’s dead Jim. Retired 1Dec12.


6 posted on 06/13/2013 7:47:31 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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how long will it be before someone under his command says something bad about gays and he’s sent into retirement.


7 posted on 06/13/2013 7:48:35 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Cvengr

nuts


8 posted on 06/13/2013 7:48:44 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Dallas59

Hmmm, direct fire weapons hitting the reverse slopes of their targets. Must be the ammo.


9 posted on 06/13/2013 7:48:58 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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10 posted on 06/13/2013 7:50:09 PM PDT by PGR88
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and despite the efforts of the SWO community, CVN captains are still aviators.


11 posted on 06/13/2013 7:50:15 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Dallas59

Make that one USS.


12 posted on 06/13/2013 7:51:13 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Q: The worst president in US history?)
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PUH-leeeeze don't call your quick internal memos "Z-grams"....

tvymm Cap'n...

13 posted on 06/13/2013 7:51:31 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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good call


14 posted on 06/13/2013 7:51:32 PM PDT by Nifster
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Missiles. I don’t know what the 5” set is doing, though.


15 posted on 06/13/2013 7:53:03 PM PDT by DBrow
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That’s right, no more Mobile Chernobyl.


16 posted on 06/13/2013 7:55:13 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Dallas59

just think, in the mirror universe there’s an evil Capt. Kirk.


17 posted on 06/13/2013 7:55:48 PM PDT by isom35
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To: Dallas59

Perhaps an ancestor of another Captain James Kirk?


18 posted on 06/13/2013 7:56:30 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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He looks exactly like I’d expect a naval officer who spent his entire career withstanding jokes and snickers about his name. You know it was brought up at promotion boards, among office staff, with his kids, pretty much everywhere, probably at least once a week for well over twenty years. That is a lifetime of balled up fury composed into a single photograph. I would not want to be standing in front of him for his first captain’s mast.


19 posted on 06/13/2013 7:56:51 PM PDT by jz638
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but with UAVs, more and more aviation platforms are being flown by....SWOs,..hehehehe


20 posted on 06/13/2013 7:57:12 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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