ADM STOCKALE TAKES HELM AT NAVAL WAR COLLEGE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100120087-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 87
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ceremonies on the Navy's bir- Revolution Medal of Honor,
thday, Oct 13. -. Widely known for his public
The Chief of Naval Operations, stand on patriotism and loyalty,
Admiral James L Holloway III, he. has been editorialized in
spoke at the- 2. Pm ceremony. numerous national publications
Vice -Admiral Stockdale. and several of his many public
graduated from the US" Naval addresses have been entered into
Academy in 1946. During the the Congressional Record. , -
next. twenty years,. he served Vice Admiral Stockdale comes
successively as a destroyer to the Presidency of the Naval
officer, carrier aviator (fighter War College with immediate
wing commander. He had more He is accompanied by his wife
flight time in the supersonic F-8 Sybil (BA; Mount Holyoke
single seat fighter than any man College, MA, Stanford Univer-
in the world when he led the sity). They are parents of four
initial strikes against North Pons: James, a prep school
Vietnam from a carrier deck in teacher and graduate student in
the Tonkin Gulf in August 1964. Georgia; Sidney, a high school
Shot down and captured teacher and football coach in
Colorado, and Stanford and
fourteen months later, during his Taylor, fifth and third formers
second combat tour in Vietnam, respectively, at the South Kent
he spent most of his seven and: School in Connecticut.
one-half years of imprisonment Rear Admiral Hardisty
in solitary confinement. Despite assumed his present duties on
repeated torture and
years of April 1 from Vice Admiral Julian
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restraint in leg irons and h
an
cuffs, he maintained- contact
with his fellow.:,-Americans by
clandestine - means,. setting
standards 'and policy for the.
prisoners' organization and
united resistance.
Upon his release in 1973, he
was promoted to Rear Admiral
and assigned as Commander of
the Anti Submarine Warfare
Wing of the US Pacific Fleet. He
is the most highly decorated
officer in the Navy,. wearing 25
personal combat* decorations'
including two Distinguished
Flying Crosses, ten Air Medals,
the Legion of- Merit, - two
Distinguished Service Medals,.
four Silver. Stars,. two- Purple
Hearts, and the Congressional
Medal of Honor-
Vice. Admiral -Stockdale's
civilian education, awards, and
recognition -include ? pre-Naval ..
Academy study -at . Monmouth
College-(he was presented with -
heir Distinguished Alumnus
Award at the 1977 Com-
mencement) ; two :Years (1960-
62) as a ' graduate student at
;Stanford University;, earning. a
Master of Arts degree and ;J
completing further studies;-'
pilot), landing signal officer, test - Past experience as the Director
pilot, test pilot instructor, of the Strategy, Plans and Policy
graduate student, aircraft Division of the Office of the Chief
..YA, fsm a i*7e.5
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J LeBourgeois, when the latter
retired from the Navy. He will
become Commander, Naval
Forces Philippines and Com-
mander, Naval Base, Subic Bay,
Republic of the Philippines, in
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