Commanding Officers

  • CDR Raymond J. Harbrecht — Sep 75 to Jun 77
  • CDR J. P. Cormack — Jun 77 to Jul 79
  • CDR R. Hays — Jul 79 to Jun 81
  • CDR P. Shepard — Jun 81 to Sep 83
  • CDR Vern Clark* — Sep 83 to Nov 85
  • CDR G. Gottschalk — Nov 85 to Nov 88
  • CDR T. Parker — Nov 88 to Feb 89
  • CDR C. Weaver — Feb 89 to Jan 91
  • CDR W. Gerken — Jan 91 to Oct 92
  • CDR R. Foster — Oct 92 to Jun 94
  • CDR J. Stevenson — Jun 94 to May 96
  • CDR M. Wahlstrom — May 96 to Dec 97
  • CDR C. Wilson — Dec 1997 to May 99
  • CDR R. Wall — May 99 to May 01
  • CDR S. Robinson — May 2001 to Sep 02
  • CDR M. Foster — Sep 02 to Jan 04
  • CDR Jerome F. Hamel — Jan 04 to March 05

Executive Officers

  • LCDR George F. A. Wagner** — Sep 75 to ?
  • LCDR Miles A. Libby, III —
  • LCDR Gary Roughead* — ?
  • LCDR Lisa A. Schweinfurth — ? to Mar 05

* — ADMs Vern Clark and Gary Roughead became CNO.  ADM Clark served from July 200o to July 2005 and ADM Roughhead from Septembery 2007 through September 2011.

** — RADM Wagner became the longest serving SWO in the USN in November 1997 having earned this commission in 1962.  The title of "Old Salt" was bestowed upon him along with the presentation of a statue passed down from one Old Salt to another.