Rear Admiral Wirth is a native of Grand Island, New York and a 1994 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering. He also holds a Masters of Engineering Management from Old Dominion University and has completed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar...

Rear Adm. Tom Moninger is from Williamsburg, Virginia and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1994. A Surface Warfare Officer, he served tours on USS Mitscher (DDG 57), USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS Thorn (DD 988), USS George Washington (CVN 73), and USS Princeton (CG 59).  He...

A U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET), embarked aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson (DDG 102), interdicted a suspected drug smuggling vessel and seized approximately 1,296 pounds of cocaine in international waters Aug. 11...

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska — More than 6,400 service members, 100 aircraft, and 7 U.S. and Canadian vessels began participation in exercise Northern Edge 2025, a joint field-training exercise at various locations in-and-around Alaska, on Aug. 17...

A native of Newport, Rhode Island, Admiral Christopher W. Grady graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1984 and received his commission through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program. Grady is also a distinguished graduate of both Georgetown University, where he participated as a...