Bruce DeMars

Admiral Bruce DeMars (1988)

Bruce DeMars (born June 3, 1935 in Chicago , Illinois ) is a former admiral in the US Navy , who was last director of the Naval Reactors government agency responsible for the US Navy's nuclear energy program between 1988 and 1996 .

Life

Training as a naval officer and submarine officer

After attending school in 1953, DeMars began his officer training at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis , which he completed in 1957 with a Bachelor of Science (BS Naval Science). This was followed by assignments as an officer on the Haskell-class attack transport ships USS Telfair and USS Okanogan as well as further training at the submarine school between 1958 and 1959. He was then an officer on the Balao-class submarine USS Capitaine before, after an interview with Admiral Hyman Rickover in 1960, he received additional training at the Nuclear Power School at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard and in the nuclear prototype reactor in West Milton graduated. He then belonged to the selected first crew of the ballistic missile equipped first nuclear submarine USS George Washington from 1961 to 1962 and was then himself a lecturer at the Nuclear Power School on Mare Island between 1962 and 1964. This was followed by a use on the Skipjack class nuclear submarine USS Snook from 1964 to 1966 , with which he took part in special intelligence operations against the Soviet Union .

After DeMars attended Armed Forces Staff College (AFSC) in Norfolk between 1966 and 1967 , he was first officer on the Sturgeon-class nuclear submarine USS Sturgeon from 1967 to 1969 . He then taught between 1969 and 1971 as a lecturer at the submarine school and then attended a course for commanding officers. He served as Commander (Commander) of 9 February 1973 to 28 December 1974 the first commander ( Commanding Officer ) of newly commissioned and also to the Sturgeon-class submarine belonging submarine USS Cavalla After that, he was deputy Jan-Apr 1975 Commander of the 10th Submarine Squadron Ten and suffered a broken rib during a mission when he was rappelled from a submarine to a helicopter.

After he had taken up his duties again, was from 1975 to 1978, first officer and then Senior Officer in the examination committee for the nuclear energy program in the US Atlantic Fleet ( US Atlantic Fleet ) . He then acted between 1978 and 1979 as commander of the 12th submarine squadron (Submarine Squadron 12) and between 1979 as deputy head of the submarine hunt unit (OP-22B) in the naval operations staff.

Promotion to admiral and economic manager

After his promotion to Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral) the acre in 1981 commander of US naval forces in the Marianas and Guam (Joint Region Marianas / Naval Base Guam) , commander in chief, Pacific Representative for Guam and the US Trust Territories of the Pacific Ocean . Then he was between 1983 and 1985 deputy head of the department submarine warfare (OP-02) and from 1985 to 1988 as Vice-Admiral (Vice Admiral) Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Deputy Chief of Naval Operations) and Director of submarine warfare.

Most recently, DeMars was promoted to Admiral in 1988 and succeeded Admiral Kinnaird R. McKee as director of Naval Reactors , the government agency responsible for the US Navy's nuclear energy program. The authority is based at the Department of Navy in the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), and also reports directly to the Chief of Naval Operations and the Department of Energy . He held this post for eight years until he retired on October 1, 1996, after which he was replaced by Admiral Frank "Skip" Bowman .

After retiring from active military service, DeMars switched to business and was a member of the supervisory boards of the technology company UNICOM Global between 1996 and 2000 and, since 1997, of the offshore service provider McDermott International . At the same time he was Chief Executive Officer of the Non-Proliferation Trust from 1998 to 2001 and at the same time a partner of the Trident Merchant Group . Furthermore, he became a member of the supervisory board of the energy supply company Exelon in 2000 , a partner of RSD LLC in 2001 and a member of the supervisory board of the nuclear materials company Duratek in 2004 .

Awards

Selection of decorations, sorted based on the Order of Precedence of the Military Awards:

• Navy Distinguished Service Medal
• Legion of Merit (4 ×)

Web links

• Bruce DeMars in nndb (English)
• Entry in the Hall of Valor

Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ Cavalla (SSN-684) (navsource.org)