Jonathon Band

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Admiral Jonathon Band (left) talking to members of the US Navy (2009)

Sir Jonathon Band , GCB , DL (born February 2, 1950 ) is a former British admiral in the Royal Navy , who was First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff between 2006 and 2009 .

Life

Naval officer and ship commander

Captain Jonathan band was between 1989 and 1991 commander of HMS Norfolk , a frigate of the Duke class .
From 1995 to 1997, Captain Band was also in command of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious .

Jonathon Band graduated from Brambletye School and Haileybury and Imperial Service College and joined the Royal Navy in 1967 . In 1969 he began studying at the University of Exeter , which he completed in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). This was followed by numerous posts as a naval officer and staff officer in the Navy. He was among other things as a captain at sea (Captain) between 1989 and 1991 commander of the 9th Frigate Squadron and was as such in personal union also the commander of HMS Norfolk , a frigate of the Duke class . After further assignments, he was in command of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious from May 1997 to December 1999 .

In May 1997, Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral) band succeeds Rear Admiral Jeremy Blackham as of assistive Chief of Naval Staff (Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff) and held this position until December 1999, after which Rear Admiral James Burnell-Nugent began his local successor. After a subsequent use as head of the working group defense education and training studies (Defense Education and Training Study) was elected a Vice Admiral (Vice-Admiral) in May 2001, the successor to Vice Admiral Fabian Malbon as deputy commander of the fleet (Deputy Commander, The Fleet) and remained in this post until his replacement by Vice Admiral Mark Stanhope in July 2002. For his services, he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) during this time on December 31, 2001 and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

Promotion to Admiral and First Sea Lord

As Admiral Jonathon band in September 2002, as successor to Admiral Alan West Commander in Chief of the Fleet (Commander-in-Chief, The Fleet) and held this position until his but repeated replacement by Admiral James Burnell-Nugent in November 2005. He was last in february 2006 again succeeded Admiral Alan West, and indeed now as first Sea Lord (first Sea Lord) , and was this capacity until his retirement from active military service in July 2009, also chief of naval Staff (chief of the naval Staff) . In July 2009, Admiral Mark Stanhope again succeeded him in these offices. On June 14, 2008 he was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB).

On November 27, 2009 Volume was Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Hampshire . He is also a member of the supervisory board of the cruise company Carnival Corporation & plc and the British supervisory board of the US defense and technology group Lockheed Martin . In addition, he is involved as a so-called Younger Brother in the Trinity House beacon management and as a liveryman for the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights , the shipbuilders' guild.

His marriage to Sarah Asbury in 1979 resulted in two daughters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1865, p. 234
  2. ↑ CAPTAINS COMMANDING ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS, p. 293
  3. ↑ CAPTAINS COMMANDING ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS, p. 107
  4. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1865, p. 19
  5. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1865, p. 133
  6. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES
  7. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1865, p. 132
  8. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1865, p. 6
  9. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES
predecessor Office successor
Sir Alan West Commander-in-Chief, The Fleet
2002-2005 		Sir James Burnell-Nugent
Sir Alan West First Sea Lord
2006–2009 		Sir Mark Stanhope
personal data
SURNAME Band, Jonathon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British admiral
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1950