REAR ADMIRAL VINCENT L. GRIFFITH Supply Corps, U.S. Navy, Commander, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation


Rear Admiral Griffith is a member of


the Navy Acquisition Professional com- munity. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Berry College in 1981, and he was com- missioned in 1982 through Officer Candi- date School as an ensign in the Navy Sup- ply Corps. He received a master’s degree in business administration from George Washington University, and completed Emory University’s Goizueta Graduate School of Management Advanced Execu- tive Business Program and the Navy Cor- porate Business Course at University of Virginia, Darden School of Business. His sea duty assignments included the USS Saratoga as stock control, financial/budget officer and automated data processing of-


ficer. Aboard USS Stonewall Jackson and USS John C. Stennis, he served as the supply officer. Ashore, his tours include: Naval Supply Center, Charleston, S.C.; Naval Supply Systems Command, Washington; Defense Logistics Agency, Alexandria, Va.; Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia; OPNAV N81 Staff, Washington; supply officer, NAS Lemoore; commander Naval Air Forces U.S. Pacific Fleet, San Diego as deputy Force Supply officer; commanding officer, Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Jackson- ville, FL, and commander, Naval Air Forces, San Diego, as the Force Supply officer. He currently serves as commander, Defense Logistics Agency Aviation in Richmond, VA.


REAR ADMIRAL BRUCE ESTES GROOMS Assistant Deputy,


Operations, Plans & Strategy (OPNAV N3/N5B)


Rear Admiral Grooms gradu- ated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering. Following completion of nuclear power train- ing, he served in nearly every capacity aboard a variety of submarines. His command tours include service as commanding officer of USS Asheville. During this tour the ship received the Battle Efficiency “E” award, the Golden Anchor and Silver Anchor for the highest retention in the Submarine Force. Asheville twice earned the Engineering Excellence “E” award, won the Fleet Recreational Award for


best quality of life programs, and twice won the Submarine Squadron 3 Commodore’s Cup. He subsequently served as commander, Submarine Squadron 6 and later served as commander, Submarine Group 2. Ashore he served as a company officer and later as the commandant of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy. He served as the senior military assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. He was the senior inspector for the Nuclear Propulsion Examining Board. He served as deputy director then director, Submarine Warfare Division (N87), and previously served as vice direc- tor, Joint Staff.


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REAR ADMIRAL VICTOR G.


GUILLORY Commander, 14th Fleet, U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command


Rear Admiral Guillory was se- lected to assume his current command in June 2009. Immediately following the devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, Fourth Fleet coordinated the U.S. Navy’s response to the disaster relief operations. The fleet exercised command and control of approximately 15,000 sailors and Marines and nearly two dozen ships and embarked aircraft in support of the larger U.S. government effort. RADM Guillory graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1978 with a Bachelor of Science in management and technology. His early sea assignments were aboard a guided- missile destroyer, a guided-missile frigate, and cruisers. He commanded the guided-missile frigate USS Underwood and the cruiser USS Lake Champlain. Ashore, RADM Guillory’s assignments included several Washington area tours in the Office of the Chief of Naval Op- erations, Surface Warfare Division, as branch head for Combat Systems, and as the assistant deputy director for Surface Ships. He also served in the Joint Staff as the J-38, Current Readiness branch chief. He was selected for flag officer in early 2004 and assumed command of Amphibi- ous Force, U.S. 7th Fleet and Amphibi- ous Group 1 in October the same year. In December 2006, RADM Guillory returned to Washington, D.C. and the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations as the deputy director of Surface Warfare. He assumed the duties as director of Surface Warfare in October 2007 and the responsibility for the war fighting requirements and resources for all surface combatant ships.


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