Online Sponsor: Rear Adm. Mark P. Fitzgerald
A naval aviator, Rear Adm. Fitzgerald has served afloat aboard five aircraft carriers — on one tour, as commander of VA-46, he led the first Navy strike on Baghdad during the opening hour of Operation Desert Storm. He has logged more than 4,800 flight hours and has made more than 1,100 arrested landings on the decks of 13 aircraft carriers.
Shore duty assignments include deputy commander, Joint Air Force Component Commander for Provide Promise Yugoslav Operations; assistant commander for Deny Flight NATO operations (1993); executive assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (1996-98); deputy commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and commander of Joint Task Force Determined Response in Aden, Yemen (2000). Before assuming his current assignment, he was commander, Carrier Group 8, deployed with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Battle Group during Operation Enduring Freedom (2001-2002). |
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Maj. Gen. John L "Jack" Hudson |
Rear Adm. Mark P. Fitzgerald is deputy director of Air Warfare, OPNAV. He graduated from Northeastern University in Boston in June 1973, holds a master’s degree in aeronautical systems engineering from the University of West Florida (1975), and attended the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., in 1983-84.
