awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit and various campaign and unit awards.
REAR ADM. SINCLAIR HARRIS Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command and U.S. 4th Fleet
Rear Adm. Sinclair Harris serves as commander of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command and U.S. 4th Fleet. He was on the Chief of Naval Operations staff as the director,
Navy Irregu- lar Warfare Office/Future Concepts
from 2010 to 2012. He also served as a senior fellow in the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group. In May 2008, he returned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations as deputy director, Expeditionary Warfare Divi- sion. He was assigned as the commander, Expeditionary Strike Group 5 from 2009 to 2010 providing Foreign Disaster Relief during the Pakistan Floods of 2010. His other assignments include tours at the Institute for National Strategic Stud- ies, National Defense University; the Navy staff in the Assessment Division Campaign Analysis, Modeling and Simulation branch; and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-5) Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate as the Global Security Affairs Division chief for Security Assistance. He is a 1981 graduate of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., where he received a bachelor of science degree in economics. His early sea assignments include tours in USS Long Beach, USS Vincennes, USS Jarrett, USS Coronado and as commissioning executive officer in USS Benfold. He commanded USS Comstock during Operation Enduring Freedom and Amphibious Squadron 4/ Iwo Jima Strike Group during humani- tarian assistance and disaster relief — Hurricanes Katrina/Rita in 2005 and non-combative evacuation operation of Lebanon in 2006. Harris earned a mas- ter's degree in operations analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1989 and is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va. He also earned a master's degree in defense and strategic studies from the University of
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Madras, India's Defense Services Staff College in Tamilnadu, India.
REAR ADM. NORMAN HAYES Director of the Intelligence
Headquarters, United States European Command
Rear Adm. Norman Hayes assumed his current position in 2010. He has responsibil- ity for all intelligence systems, plans and activities of U.S. Forces in the Euro- pean Theater. A graduate of Indiana University,
he worked in the private sector for five years before he was commissioned in 1982 as a naval intelligence officer. Since his initial assignment with Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 15 at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla., he has served as an assistant intelligence officer, and as community manager and intel- ligence community placement officer. In September 1996, he reported to U.S. Special Operations Command as chief of the analysis division, Special Operations Command Joint Intelligence Center. Prior to reporting to USS Abraham Lincoln in 2000 as the ship’s intelligence officer, he spent nine months at as chief, Command Support and Fleet Support Division, Intelligence Directorate. From 2002 to 2004, he served as assistant chief of staff for Intelligence for Commander, 7th Fleet. In September 2005, he reported to Combined Forces Commander — Af- ghanistan as CJ2, director of Intelligence. In 2006, he reported to Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Training Center, and on June 22, 2007, he assumed command of the Center for Naval Intelligence. In September 2008, he became the direc- tor, National Security Operations Center at the National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Md.
REAR ADM. WILLIE METTS Deputy Chief of Tailored Access Operations,
National Security Agency
Rear Adm. Willie Metts was pro- moted to the rank of rear admiral July 1, 2011. He took up his current posi- tion as deputy chief of Tailored Access Operations, National Security Agency in August. Prior, he served as director of
intelligence at Cyber Command. Metts graduated from Savannah State Univer- sity in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering technology and was com- missioned via the Naval ROTC. Fol- lowing com- missioning, he completed deployments to the Medi-
terranean and Red seas during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He earned a master's degree in command, control, communications, computers and intelligence at the Naval Postgraduate School. As a cryptologist (now informa- tion warfare) in 1993, he transferred to Naval Security Group Command and served as Operations Director. In 1997, he joined the Naval Computer and Tele- communications Station before fleeting up to executive officer. In 1999, he was assigned to the staff of Carrier Group 2 as a cryptology coordinator. In 2001, he joined the Pacific Command in Hawaii, where he later served as Special Assistant to the Commander, Pacific Fleet and in July 2006 served as commanding officer, Navy Information Operations Command, Hawaii. Following that, he joined the Navy Personnel Command in 2008.
REAR ADM. FERNANDEZ "FRANK" PONDS
Commander, Navy Region Hawaii, Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific
Rear Adm. Fernandez “Frank” Ponds was assigned to take up his current post as com- mander of Navy Region Hawaii, Na- val Surface Group Mid- dle Pacific, in November 2011. Prior, he was a
senior fellow on the 2010
Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group. After earning a bach- elor's degree in science from University of Alabama in 1982, he was commis- sioned from Officer Candidate School in June 1983. His shore assignments have included inspector for Pacific Fleet’s
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