U.S. Naval Institute 2011 Editorial Board
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Col John J. Abbatiello, USAF
DEPUTY HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY
Colonel John J. Abbatiello, USAF, grew up in Commack, New York, and Ocala, Florida. A 1987 graduate of the Air Force Academy, Col Abbatiello spent the bulk of his twenty-four years of world-wide service as an aviator and educator.
After early career flying tours in Strategic Air Command, Air Education and Training Command, and Air Mobility Command, Col Abbatiello attended King’s College, London, where he earned a master’s degree in War Studies in June 1995. He then taught at the Air Force Academy, where he was the first faculty member to teach a regularly-offered course on the history of sea power. In 1998 he returned to flying operations at Robins AFB, where he flew the Northup Grumman E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft. During Operation ALLIED FORCE he logged over one hundred combat flying hours and served as his squadron’s director of operations. Colonel Abbatiello then returned to King’s College, London, where he earned his doctorate in War Studies in 2004. He specialized in British naval aviation during the First World War and wrote his dissertation about the employment of aircraft against German submarines from 1914 to 1918.
Col Abbatiello has served in his present position since 2004. During his lengthy tenure at the Air Force Academy he deployed in support of the Global War on Terror twice. In spring 2008 he served as Team Chief, CCJ-3 Joint Operations Center, HQ USCENTCOM at MacDill AFB, Florida, where he supervised a joint team that ensured the timely flow of information from theater command and control centers to HQ USCENTCOM leaders and higher headquarters. In May 2009 he deployed to Camp Victory, Iraq, where served in the headquarters of both Multi-National Corps-Iraq and US Forces-Iraq as a logistics staff officer.
As an associate professor of history, Col Abbatiello has taught in a number of fields including air power, sea power, military thought, and research methods. In 1996 he was awarded the department’s military history teaching award and in 1998 received the Outstanding Academy Educator Award. Colonel Abbatiello is a graduate of Squadron Officers School, Air Command and Staff College, and Air War College, and he is a command pilot with over 3,600 flying hours in EC/KC-135, T-37, T-38, E-8, and T-52 aircraft.
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CDR Stephen D. Barnett, USN
AVIATION PROGRAM ANALYST
PROGRAMMING DIVISION, OPNAV N80
Commander Barnett is currently an Aviation Program Analyst on the Navy Staff. He is a native of Columbia, Tennessee and has served in six aircraft squadrons, commanding one of them. Additionally he has served on three staffs and onboard the USS John C. Stennis. In over 20 years of naval service, he has conducted countless deployed operations in support of the 5th, 6th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.
Ashore, CDR Barnett specializes in personnel management, joint requirements and budget programming and analysis. He served at the Bureau of Naval Personnel as a detailer, where he directed the assignment of over 1,000 naval aviators. During his tour on the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-8), he was the Assistant Joint Requirements Oversight Council Secretariat assisting in the evaluation and development of joint force structure requirements.
CDR Barnett is a designated P-3 Naval Flight Officer with over 2,300 flight hours in three different types of Naval/Air Force aircraft and holds several shipboard qualifications. He has been awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Commendation Medal, Navy Commendation Medal (4 awards), Navy Achievement Medal (2 awards) and various other personal and unit awards. He is an alumnus of Tennessee State University where he received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Troy State University where he earned his Master of Business Administration.
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LCDR Claude G. Berube, USNR
INSTRUCTOR, U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY
Lieutenant Commander Claude Berube, USNR, earned his B.A. in History and Soviet Studies, an M.A. in History from Northeastern University and a Master’s in National Security from the Naval War College. He is currently writing his doctoral dissertation, under the direction of Dr. Williamson Murray, in military history with a focus on naval transformation during the Jacksonian era.
He has worked for two U.S. Senators on Capitol Hill and as a civilian for the Office of Naval Intelligence. As a Navy Reserve officer he has been mobilized several times. He served aboard USS BUNKER HILL (CG 52) with Expeditionary Strike Group 5 during its deployment to the Middle East in 2004-05, which included humanitarian relief operations in Sumatra immediately after the tsunami disaster, maritime interception operations in the Arabian Sea, and anti-piracy off the Horn of Africa. Since 2005 he has taught at the United States Naval Academy where his courses have included American Government, Naval History, Intelligence & National Security, Terrorism, Maritime Security Challenges, and Emergent Naval Warfare. In 2010, he was a Visiting Fellow for Maritime Studies at the Heritage Foundation. He has been a guest speaker at several institutions and has been interviewed on radio and television programs such as Voice of America, the BBC and on C-SPAN’s BookTV.
He is the co-author of two books (“A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution” and “Congress: Games & Strategies, 3rd and 4th eds), the co-editor of a forthcoming book on maritime security, and the author of over thirty articles that have appeared in Naval History, Naval Institute Proceedings, Jane’s Intelligence Review, the Washington Times, the Journal of International Peacekeeping Operations, Vietnam Magazine, Forbes.com, Small Wars Journal, and other publications.
Lieutenant Commander Berube’s military decorations include the Navy Commendation Medal with one gold star, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, and other decorations and unit awards.
SgtMaj David K. Devaney, USMC
WEAPONS TRAINING BN
Sergeant Major Devaney enlisted in the Marine Corps in April of 1983. He attended recruit training at Parris Island from December 1983 to March 1984. SgtMaj Devaney reported to his first FMF duty station at Company I, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines at Kaneohe Bay, HI where he was assigned as a rifleman, Fire Team Leader, Squad Leader and Scout Sniper. He deployed on one West Pac, three Unit Deployment Program (UDP) to Okinawa and two deployments with 1st Special Forces Group.
In August 1989, SgtMaj Devaney transferred to Drill Instructor School at Parris Island, SC. He graduated in October and then reported to the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion and served as a drill instructor and senior drill instructor. During October 1991, SgtMaj Devaney was reassigned to Scout Sniper Platoon, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines, Kaneohe Bay, HI. He deployed twice on UDP to Okinawa. During December 1994, SgtMaj Devaney was transferred to the Special Operations Training Group, III MEF as Instructor and then Chief Instructor, Helicopter Rope Suspension Training course. During August 1996, he was reassigned as Chief Instructor, Reconnaissance and Surveillance and Urban Sniper courses. He deployed with Joint Task Force 510 (CT) Operation Bevel Edge, 31st MEU (SOC) Operation Desert Thunder, 5th Special Forces Group Operation Desert Fox, and 1st Special Forces Group for Operation Vector Balance Mint. In January 2001, SgtMaj Devaney was reassigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines at 29 Palms, California for duty as Company Gunnery Sergeant and then Company First Sergeant. He deployed on one UDP to Okinawa, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom twice. During March 2004, SgtMaj Devaney transferred to Inspector Instructor (I-I) Staff, 2nd Beach and Terminal Operations Company, 4th Landing Support Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Savannah, Georgia for duty as the I-I First Sergeant. In April 2007, SgtMaj Devaney transferred to Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 4 as the Squadron Sergeant Major. He deployed to Iraq in 2008 and again in 2009.
His personal military decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Marine Corps Achievement medal with three gold stars, the Navy Marine Corps Commendation Medal with gold star, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Combat Action Ribbon.
SgtMaj Devaney has graduated from 61 formal Professional Military Education (PME) courses, has an AA in Liberal Arts from Saint Leo University, and a BS in Social Psychology from Park University.
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CMDCM (SW/AW) Jacqueline L. DiRosa, USN (Ret.)
Command Master Chief Jacqueline DiRosa is a native of Mt. Olive, Illinois. She entered the Navy in July 1981 and attended recruit training at RTC Orlando, Florida with follow-on training at Basic Hospital Corps School, Great Lakes, Illinois, earning her designation as a Hospital Corpsman.
Master Chief DiRosa served as the Command Master Chief for USS Supply (AOE 6) in Earle, New Jersey from April 2000 to February 2001 completing a Mediterranean/Arabian Gulf deployment and scheduled decommissioning followed by assignment to the forward deployed, U.S. Seventh Fleet command ship, USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) in Yokosuka, Japan until March 2000. She was selected and served as the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Force Master Chief from April 2002 to March 2006 during which she lead the successful rating merger between Hospital Corpsmen and Dental Technicians. Her next selection was as the OPNAV CNO-Directed Command Master Chief and served briefly from April to June 2006 until her selection as US Fleet Forces, Fleet Master Chief serving from July 2006 to June 2007.
Of note, Master Chief DiRosa was the Navy's first enlisted woman selected for both Force and Fleet Master Chief and was recognized by the Alliance of National Defense with the "Positive Voice Award" in 2006 for her example of women in military service.
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CAPT Douglas M. Fears, USCG
CHIEF OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
COAST GUARD HEADQUARTERS
Captain Fears is currently the Chief of Law Enforcement at Coast Guard Headquarters. He is a native of Maryland's Eastern Shore and has served in seven ships around the world, commanding two of them. In over a decade of sea service, he conducted drug interdiction, alien migrant interdiction, search and rescue, fisheries enforcement, homeland security and defense operations.
Ashore, CAPT Fears specialized in congressional liaison, the federal budgeting process, and the federal policy coordinating process. He served as a command center controller in the Thirteenth Coast Guard District in Seattle, Aide and Executive Assistant to the Thirteenth Coast Guard District Commander, Assistant Coast Guard liaison to the U.S. House of Representatives, and Program Reviewer for the law enforcement, counterterrorism, Maritime Domain Awareness, and command and control architecture programs in the Coast Guard Headquarters Office of Budget and Programs. He also served at the White House as Director for Central America and the Caribbean Basin on the National Security Council staff, where he directed the most active period of U.S. policy toward Cuba since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and he provided policy options and counsel to the President, National Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor on all pertinent foreign policy matters for his region.
CAPT Fears is a designated Coast Guard cutterman, a designated Navy surface warfare officer, a licensed master mariner, and has been awarded over 40 personal, unit, campaign, and service awards. He was also awarded the 1997 U.S. Navy League's Captain David H. Jarvis Award for Inspirational Leadership and the 2005 U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Achievement Award. He is an alumnus of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, the U.S. Naval War College, and Harvard University, with a B.S. in government, an M.A. in national security and strategic studies, and a Master in Public Administration degree, respectively. He was the 2009-2010 Coast Guard fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he researched piracy, transnational threats, resource conflict and radicalization. He is a 2011-2012 fellow in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Seminar XXI program on Foreign Politics, International Relations and the National Interest.
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Col Robert W. Lanham, USMC
DIRECTOR,STRATEGIC INITIATIVES GROUP
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. MARINE CORPS
After completing undergraduate studies in English at Indiana University, working as a stockbroker, and finishing an MBA in Finance, Colonel Lanham was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in August 1982. Following Flight School in Pensacola, Florida he reported to Cherry Point, North Carolina for training in the A-6 Intruder attack jet. For the next fourteen years, he remained “in the cockpit,” flying in numerous deployments to the western Pacific (both in the Maintenance Dept. and in Operations as a WTI), serving as a flight instructor in Kingsville, Texas, then transitioning to fly a different aircraft, the F/A-18 Hornet.
During his tour with F/A-18’s in Beaufort, South Carolina, Col Lanham completed several deployments to Aviano, Italy in support of U.N. contingency and combat operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Subsequently, he attended Marine Corps Command & Staff College in Quantico, Virginia, completed his Masters Degree in Military Studies as a distinguished graduate of the both the Command & Staff College and the School of Advanced Warfighting.
His next assignment was to the Joint Staff, Operations Directorate (J-3). Here he developed policy, implementation plans, and requirements for the Global Command and Control System. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in July 1999. He then served at Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps in the Strategic Initiatives Group, conducting long-range strategic planning for the Marine Corps; and as the Director of the Commandant’s Staff Group, conducting research and writing articles and speeches for the 32ndand 33rdCommandants of the Marine Corps. While performing these duties he completed certification as a Seminar XXI Fellow from MIT.
Col Lanham subsequently served the Secretary of Defense in the Office of Net Assessment, conducting long-range strategic planning studies for the Department of Defense. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel and completed another Masters degree in National Security and Policy while attending the National War College. After graduation in 2005, Col Lanham was assigned to command MCAS Beaufort, SC and remained there until 2008.
Col Lanham then took up duties at II MEF in Camp Lejeune, deploying with the II MEF forward staff to Iraq as the principle staff director of Civil-Military Operations (G-9) in the Multi-National Force-West area of operations. Returning to Camp Lejeune in early 2010, he continued to serve II MEF in Future Operations until his subsequent transfer to HQMC.
The initial assignment in HQMC was as the Director of the QDR Integration Group, Programs & Resources. While there he served on the 35th Commandant’s Transition Team and the Force Structure Review Group, 2010. His final reassignment was as Director, Strategic Initiatives Group, serving as a special staff to the Commandant under the Director of the Marine Corps Staff.
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Master Chief Kevin Leask enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1986. He assumed the duties as Boatswains Mate Rating Force Master Chief in September 2007. Prior to his current assignment, Master Chief Leask was Officer in Charge of USCGC Brant out of Corpus Christi Texas. Other afloat assignments include TAD Officer in Charge of USCGC Bonito, USCGC Vigilant as Command Chief, USCGC Matagorda and USCGC Biscayne Bay.
Master Chief Leask's ashore assignments include Officer in Charge of Stations Tybee and Milwaukee. He also served as Executive Petty Officer at stations St. Ignace and Charlevoix and as duty coxswain at stations Station Grand Haven and Holland. Master Chief Leask is a graduate of Class 46 of the Chief Petty Officer Academy and a graduate of the Senior Enlisted Leadership Course in New London Connecticut. Master Chief Leask earned a BA in History from the University of Maryland University College and is currently pursuing his Masters degree in American Military History from the American Military University.
Master Chief Leask's awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, two Coast Guard Commendation Medals, and four Coast Guard Achievement Medals. He has earned the permanent cutterman's insignia, coxswain insignia, command afloat, command ashore and the Rating Force Master Chief (gold badge) insignia.
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Maj Marcus J. Mainz, USMC
EWS FACULTY ADVISOR
Marcus Mainz was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps February 1999. Shortly thereafter he reported to Quantico, Virginia for The Basic School. Following graduation from The Basic School in September 1999, he reported to the Infantry Officer's Course (IOC). In December of 1999 he graduated from IOC and reported to Second Battalion Seventh Marine Regiment, as a Platoon Commander, Company G. He made one six month Unit Deployment Program (UDP) to Okinawa, Japan with the platoon from August 2000 to February 2001. After that deployment he attended Calvary Leaders Course and Scout Platoon Leader's Course in Ft Knox, KY from August to September 2001. Following completion of these courses he assumed the duties of the Combined Anti-Armor Platoon Commander for Weapons Company 2/7 until April 2003. During that time he attended the Marine Corps Martial Arts Instructor Trainer Course. He also embarked on what resulted in an extended UDP to Okinawa, August 2002 to June 2003, due to the stop loss, stop move during the initial phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). During this deployment he also filled the duties of Weapons Company XO until promoted to Captain July 1, 2003.
In early August 2003, he returned to The Basic School in Quantico, Virginia where he served as a Warfighting Instructor, a Staff Platoon Commander (Echo and India Companies, 2004 -2005), and an IOC Instructor. Immediately succeeding this tour, August 2006, he attended the Expeditionary Warfare School, but was removed prior to graduation to support the President's troop surge in Iraq. In February 2007, he reported to Third Battalion, Seventh Marines and assumed command of Company L. In April 2007, 3/7 deployed to Ar Ramadi, Iraq for OIF 6-08. The Battalion returned to MCAGCC, Twentynine Palms late November 2007. February of 2008 he was reassigned as the Battalion Operations Officer. In August 2008 he was deployed to AO West in support of OIF 8.2.
His personal decorations include:Bronze Star, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbons, Korean Defense Service Medal and National Defense Service Medal.
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LT Robert P. McFall, USN
WATCH OFFICER, WHITE HOUSE MILITARY OFFICE
Lieutenant Robert P. McFall was raised in Roanoke, VA and enlisted in the United States Navy in October of 2000. He was then accepted to attend the United States Naval Academy the following fall. He graduated from USNA with a Batchelor of Science, in American Politics and Law, and was Commissioned in May of 2005.
LT McFall assumed duties as a Watch Officer in the White House Military Office in August 2009, where he now provides direct support to the Military Aides to the President and Vice President of the United States and the Director of the White House Military Office.
LT McFall’s operational tours include two consecutive Division Officer tours onboard USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) where he deployed twice to the Persian Gulf. His first tour was as the Force Protection and Anti-Terrorism Officer and his second was as the Training, Administrative, and Visit Board Search and Seizure Officer. As a watchstander, McFall was a critical member of the Churchill team. He was the Special Evolutions Officer of the Deck, Anti-Air Warfare Coordinator, and was named the Destroyer Squadron TWO Shiphandler of the Year for 2006. LT McFall also qualified as Surface Warfare Officer, Engineering Officer of the Watch, and Tactical Action Officer.
In September of 2010 LT McFall was selected by the Center for a New American Security for the 2010-2011 class of Next Generation of National Security Professionals. He also serves on the Board of Directors and the Scholarship Committee for the Surface Navy Association, he is a member of the U.S. Naval Institute, the Military Officers Association of America and the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association.
LT McFall’s other awards include the Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal (two awards), the Outstanding Volunteer Service Award, the Presidential Service Badge, and various sea service award. LT McFall was also the recipient of the Draper L. Kauffman Leadership Excellence Award, the highest leadership award given at the Naval Academy.
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CAPT David M. McFarland, USN
SENIOR MILITARY ASSISTANT
UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (COMPTROLLER)/CFO
Captain McFarland was born in El Paso, TX and raised all over the world as the son of an Army senior enlisted Soldier. He enlisted in the Navy in 1982 and served in submarines. He is a 1989 graduate of the University of New Mexico, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering and earning his commission through the NROTC program.
CAPT McFarland’s initial Officer sea tour was in USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67) as Electrical Division Officer, 3rd Division Officer and Assistant First LT. His second division officer tour was in USS LABOON (DDG 58) where he served as the commissioning Combat Information Officer (CICO) and Assistant Operations Officer. Completing Department Head School, he served as Weapons Officer and Combat Systems Officer in USS MOBILE BAY (CG 53) forward deployed in Yokosuka, Japan. CAPT McFarland served as Executive Officer in USS BULKELEY (DDG 84). Most recently, CAPT McFarland commanded USS LABOON (DDG 58) and completed two NATO deployments with Standing NATO Maritime Group TWO.
Ashore, CAPT McFarland attended the Naval War College and the Naval Operational Planners Curriculum (NOPC) in Newport, Rhode Island, where he earned a Masters Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies and subspecialty as a Joint Operational Planner. CAPT McFarland also attended the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, VA. He served on the OPNAV staff in the Navy Programming Division (N80) as Programmer for Shipbuilding and Surface Warfare Programs. CAPT McFarland served on the Joint Staff in the Program Budget Analysis Division (PBAD) as a Defense Resource Manager assigned to the Force Structure, Resources and Assessment Directorate, J-8. CAPT McFarland is Financial Management proven sub-specialist and is currently assigned as Military Assistant to the Executive Secretary in the immediate office of Secretary of Defense.
CAPT McFarland’s personal awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Meritorious Service Medal (gold star), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy Commendation Medal (three gold stars), the Joint Service Achievement Medal (one oak leave cluster), the Navy Achievement medal (three gold stars) and multiple campaign, unit service awards and NATO service awards.
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LTC John A. Mowchan III, USA
STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE
Lieutenant Colonel John A. Mowchan was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and joined the U.S. Army in 1990 when he enlisted as an intelligence analyst. In 1993 he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Military Intelligence Corps after graduating from Officer Candidate School.
Over the last 20 years,
Other notable assignments include Human Intelligence Officer, Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I); Faculty member and Executive Officer to the President at the National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC); Current Intelligence Officer, U.S. Army G2, Pentagon, VA; Senior Counterterrorism Analyst, Joint Intelligence Operations Center, Pacific; Senior Intelligence Watch Officer, U.S. Pacific Command; Commander, HHB, 1-30th Field Artillery Regiment, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and Brigade S2, 212th Field Artillery Brigade, Fort Sill, OK.
LTC Mowchan holds a Bachelor of Science in Business-Math from Albright College and a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College. His military education includes the Intelligence Officer Basic Course, Engineer Officer Advanced Course, and the Command and General Staff College. He is a Senior Service College select and is currently attending the U.S. Army War College two-year distance education program.
LTC Mowchan’s awards and decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, and the Army Staff Identification Badge.
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CDR Jeffrey W. Novak, USCG
EXECUTIVE OFFICER,
USCGC BEAR (WMEC 901)
Commander Novak is a native of Stone Mountain, GA, and a 1995 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy (BS Government.) He reported to his current assignment from Coast Guard Atlantic Area, where he served as the Budget and Programs Reviewer in the Resource and Performance Management Division. Among his responsibilities in this role were the management of over 26,000 Coast Guard military, civilian, and reserve positions on the Personnel Allowance List and coordination of the Atlantic Area Commander's input into the Coast Guard's annual budget build process.
Following commissioning CDR Novak was assigned to USCGC Jarvis (WHEC 725) in Honolulu, HI. In Jarvis he served as a Deck Watch Officer and Combat Systems Officer on deployments throughout the Pacific, Ocean. In 1997 CDR Novak assumed duties as Executive Officer on board USCGC Block Island (WPB 1344), home port at Atlantic Beach, NC. During this tour, he participated in major counter drug and counter migrant Operations FRONTIER SHIELD, FRONTIER LANCE, and FRONTIER SABER.
CDR Novak reported to Vessel Traffic Service Houston/Galveston as a Supervisory Vessel Traffic Control Specialist, and later as Operations Officer. There, He was instrumental to the interagency and intergovernmental response to the flooding event of Tropical Storm Allison, acting as the Operations Section Chief for urban search and rescue, directing small boat and helicopter rescues throughout Houston.
CDR Novak assumed duties as Commanding Officer of USCGC Block Island (WPB 1344) in 2002. While in command of Block Island, he prepared his crew to assume control of USCGC Grand Isle (WPB 1338), and then deployed in Grand Isle as part of Coast Guard Patrol Forces Mediterranean, to carry out port and coastal security operations in support of U.S. and coalition forces during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, and for three months at the onset of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.
He holds a Master of Public Administration Degree from East Carolina University, rand was one of the first students to receive the University's Graduate Certificate in Security Studies. CDR Novak graduated with Distinction from the College of Naval Command and Staff at the Naval War College. There, He received the Director's Award for Academic Excellence and was also a finalist for the McGinnis Family Award. Through this curriculum he also completed Joint Professional Military Education Phase I.
CDR Novak's military decorations include the Secretary of Transportation Outstanding Achievement Medal, two awards of the Meritorious Service Medal with Operational Distinguishing Device, the Coast Guard Commendation Medal with Operational Distinguishing Device, and three awards of the Coast Guard Achievement Medal with Operational Distinguishing Device.
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CDR John P. Patch, USN (Ret.)
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE
U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE
Commander Patch returned to the U.S. Army War College as an Associate Professor of Strategic Intelligence in January 2010, acting as the senior strategic intelligence subject matter expert for the Army War College Center for Strategic Leadership, directing the design, preparation, and conduct of intelligence curriculum in strategic war gaming and long-term threat assessments. He recently served at the Defense Intelligence Agency as the Chief of the Acquisition Threat Support Division for the Defense Warning Office in the Directorate for Analysis from May-December 2009. He led and managed a large group of scientific and technical intelligence analysts focused on future threat assessments for Defense and policy acquisition decision-makers. Previous to that, he served from March 2008-May 2009 at the U.S. Army War College as an Associate Professor of Strategic Intelligence.
Commander Patch retired from the Navy after a 20-year career as a surface warfare and intelligence officer. His most recent military assignment was as the Director of the National Maritime Intelligence Watch at the Office of Naval Intelligence in Suitland, MD, a joint global watch floor manned by Navy and Coast Guard personnel providing 24-hour strategic indications and warning and all-source maritime intelligence assessments to the U.S. Government, Intelligence Community, and Defense customers. From 2002 to 2005, he served at the Joint Intelligence Center, U.S. Central Command, in both Tampa, FL and the forward headquarters in Qatar as an analytical section chief and later as the Chief of Targets Branch, providing strategic advice to the J2 and Commander, U.S. Central Command on targeting plans, policy, and operations during a period of significant combat operations.
From 2000 to 2002, he served aboard the USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN-71) as the Aircraft Carrier Intelligence Center Officer, directing 100 personnel in daily intelligence center threat warning and strike support operations for the carrier strike group and a twenty-ship Navy Carrier Strike Force during active combat operations in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. From 1997 to 2000, while assigned as a Senior Analyst and Team Chief on the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, he led watch team analysis and production of daily Balkans regional briefings for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense during a period of combat operations in Yugoslavia; he also deployed to Bosnia. From 1988 to 1997, Commander Patch served on amphibious warships supporting ARG deployments, including a tour as an LCAC Detachment Officer-in-Charge. He also taught Naval Science as faculty at the Villanova University NROTC Unit. Commander Patch was commissioned from NROTC Unit Villanova and completed undergraduate and graduate work in political science/international relations and national security affairs, including an MA from Villanova University and a Graduate Certificate in Strategy and Policy from Old Dominion University. He is a graduate of the Naval War College and Joint Forces Staff College and is a designated Joint Specialty Officer.