Radm robert reilly biography

Rear Admiral Robert Dunham Reilly Jr. (born 1953) was a.
Rear Adm. (ret) Robert Dunham Reilly, Jr., a native of Winnetka, Ill., comes from a family with more than a century of service in the US Armed Forces.
Rear Admiral Robert D. Reilly Jr. was a United States Navy Surface Warfare Flag Officer who retired from active duty in January 2010 after 34-plus years of.

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Rear AdmiralRobert D. Reilly Jr. was a United States Navy Surface Warfare Flag Officer who retired from active duty in January 2010 after 34-plus years of military service.^[1] His last assignment was as the 24th commander of the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC).^[1]

Biography[]

Reilly, a native of Winnetka, Illinois, and a graduate of New Trier High School's West Campus, comes from a family with more than a century of service in the U.S. Military. Commissioned in 1975 through the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps, he first served aboard the Forrest Sherman-classdestroyerEdson as Electronic Material Officer, Combat Information Center Officer and Damage Control Assistant.^[1]

His other shipboard tours included commissioning the Spruance-class destroyer Fletcher as its first Operations Officer; Engineering Officer aboard the Belknap-classcruiserSterett; Executive Officer of the Spruance-class destroyer John Young; and as Commanding Officer of the Oliver Hazard Perry-classfrigateHalyburton.^[1]

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Rear Admiral Robert D. Reilly, Jr.

Rear Adm. (ret) Robert Dunham Reilly, Jr., a native of Winnetka, Ill., comes from a family with more than a century of service in the U.S. Armed Forces. Commissioned in 1975 through the Navy's Reserve Officer Training Corps program, Rear Adm. Reilly first served aboard USS Edson (DD 946) as combat information center officer and damage control assistant.
His other shipboard tours include commissioning USS Fletcher (DD 992) as her first operations officer; engineering officer aboard USS Sterett (CG 31); executive officer of USS John Young (DD 973); and as commanding officer, USS Halyburton (FFG 40).
Reilly's additional operational tours at sea include duties as flag secretary, Cruiser Destroyer Group 1, where he participated in the Western Pacific and Southwest Asia deployments of USS New Jersey (BB 62), USS Missouri (BB 63), and USS Midway (CV 41) Battleship and Carrier Battle Groups; and command of Destroyer Squadron 50 (COMDESRON 50), homeported in the Kingdom of Bahrain. He also commanded Cruiser Destroyer Group 2 and the USS Harry S.

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Military Sealift Command

United States Navy command for logistics

Further information: List of Military Sealift Command ships

Military unit

The Military Sealift Command (MSC) is an organization that controls the replenishment and military transport ships of the United States Navy. Military Sealift Command has the responsibility for providing sealift and ocean transportation for all US military services as well as for other government agencies. It first came into existence on 9 July 1949 when the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) became solely responsible for the Department of Defense's ocean transport needs. The MSTS was renamed the Military Sealift Command in 1970.

Military Sealift Command ships are made up of a core fleet of ships owned by the United States Navy and others under long-term-charter augmented by short-term or voyage-chartered ships.^[3]

During a time charter MSC takes control of a merchant ship and operates it for the chartered amount of time. During this time the ship is crewed by civilian mariners and MSC pays for all expenses.