Jerome L. Johnson

Admiral Jerome L. Johnson

Jerome "Jerry" LaMarr Johnson (* 21st September 1935 in Texas ) is a former admiral of the US Navy , the last between 1990 and 1992 Vice-Chief of Staff of the Navy ( Vice Chief of Naval Operations ) was.

Life

Officer training and assignments as officer and staff officer

After attending school, Johnson completed an undergraduate degree at Texas A&M University and began his officer training and aviation cadet training program at Naval Air Station Pensacola in January 1955 . After training he found in 1959 using at the naval weapons test site Naval Aviation Ordnance Test Station between August 1956 and March ( Naval Ordnance Test Station ) in Chincoteague and subsequently as a flight instructor for Grumman F-9 - fighter-bomber on the Naval Air Station Naval Air Station Jacksonville . He then completed postgraduate studies from July 1960 to August 1962 at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey and between July 1962 and June 1963 a further degree at the newly founded National Defense Intelligence College in Washington .

Johnson then found employment as a maintenance and servicing officer at Naval Air Station Cecil Field and the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La between June 1963 and June 1966 , before he was operations officer on the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga from June 1966 to March 1968 . For his military services in the Vietnam War , he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and 18 times the Air Medal . After he was between April 1968 and August 1970 as an officer for appointment and appointment procedures at the Marine Personnel Office (Bureau of Naval Personnel) operates and from January 1970 to December 1971 only deputy commander ( Executive Officer ) and then from December 1971 to December 1972 Commander ( Commanding Officer ) of Attack Squadron 27 (Attack Squadron 27) stationed at Naval Air Station Lemoore and the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise . From January 1973 to May 1973 he was an officer for the special project for the introduction of Vought A-7E fighter aircraft at Naval Air Station Lemoore and between June 1973 and October 1974 first navigation officer on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and then from October 1974 to December 1975 on the aircraft carrier USS Independence .

Promotion to admiral

Johnson was in command of the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea from July 1981 to January 1983

Johnson then served as director of training for future first officers and commanding officers (PXO / PCO) at the Navy's amphibious school in Little Creek from December 1975 to December 1976, and from December 1976 to June 1979 as operations officer and chief of staff for the aircraft carrier group Three (Carrier Group Three) , before he was a commanding course with the Commander of Submarine Units in the Pacific (COMNAVSURFPAC) in San Diego between July and August 1979 . He was then from September 1979 to February 1981 in command of the supply ship USS San Jose . After graduating from an officer training course for material supply from February to June 1981 he served from July 1981 to January 1983 as commander of the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea and then from February to September 1983 as operations officer at the headquarters of the US Pacific Fleet ( US Pacific Fleet ) in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii . Following various uses followed from October 1983 to October 1986 as a surgical planning officer in the Operations Department of the US Navy as well as the staff of the Minister of the Navy ( US Secretary of the Navy )

Then Johnson was between November 1986 and July 1988 commander of the carrier group four (Carrier Group Four) as well as commander of the carrier strike fleet (Carrier Striking Fleet) of NATO . Subsequently, he served from August 1988 to May 1990 as commander of the Second Fleet US ( US Second Fleet ) and at the same time as commander of the attack fleet of NATO. Recently he released in May 1990 Admiral Leon A. Edney as Vice-Chief of Staff of the Navy ( Vice Chief of Naval Operations ) , and held that post until his retirement from active military service in July 1992, after Admiral Stanley R. Arthur at 6 July 1992 succeeded him. For his services at the time, he was awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal and three times the Legion of Merit .

Awards

•   Navy Distinguished Service Medal
•   Legion of Merit (3 ×)
•   Distinguished Flying Cross
•   Air Medal (18 ×)

Web links

• Entry in the Hall of Valor
• Duty Assignment Chronology on the Golden Eagles homepage