Captain James A Kirk, Commander of the USS USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000)

Americas Navy ^ | 6/13/2013 | Americas Navy

[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).

[sten]

someone needs to steer his career towards:

CVN-65 USS Enterprise

[Blood of Tyrants]

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

[Dallas59]

[Jack Hydrazine]

If I was in his shoes I’d change my middle name to something more appropriate!

[Cvengr]

She’s dead Jim. Retired 1Dec12.

[newnhdad]

how long will it be before someone under his command says something bad about gays and he’s sent into retirement.

[sten]

nuts

[Cvengr]

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

[PGR88]

[USNBandit]

and despite the efforts of the SWO community, CVN captains are still aviators.

[Dallas59]

Make that one USS.

[Wings-n-Wind]

PUH-leeeeze don't call your quick internal memos "Z-grams"....

tvymm Cap'n...

[Nifster]

good call

[DBrow]

Missiles. I don’t know what the 5” set is doing, though.

[USNBandit]

That’s right, no more Mobile Chernobyl.

[isom35]

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

[TBP]

Perhaps an ancestor of another Captain James Kirk?

[jz638]

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.

[Cvengr]

but with UAVs, more and more aviation platforms are being flown by....SWOs,..hehehehe