Lieutenant Commander Walker is a graduate from Norfolk State University. He has served on five ships, the OPNAV staff, and as Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations. He will next return to sea for assignments as XO/CO in the USS Chafee (DDG-90).

Articles by Desmond Walker

Then-Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Elmo Zumwalt speaks with the Human Relations Council at Fleet Activities Yokosuka in July 1971, six months after releasing his Z-Gram on implementation of equal opportunity in the Navy.

The Burden of a Black Naval Officer

By Lieutenant Commander Desmond Walker, U.S. Navy
June 2020
Candid and open discussions that welcome different opinions can be an effective catalyst for change; it is no different for racial injustice.

Nuclear SWOs Are Ready to Fight

By Lieutenant Commander Desmond Walker, U.S. Navy
April 2018
A serving nuclear-option SWO argues that the case against his career path is based on faulty logic and that SWO(N)s are as ready as their conventional counterparts to be warfighters.