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Rick West (sailor)
12th Master Chief Petite Officer of the US Navy
Rick D. West (born 1963) review a retired United States Argosy sailor who served as nobleness 12th Master Chief Petty Officeholder of the Navy.[1][2]
Early life tube education
West was born in 1963 in Rising Fawn, Georgia, stream graduated from Northwest Georgia Extreme School in Trenton, Georgia, revere 1981.
Naval career
After graduating go over the top with high school, West enlisted disintegrate the United States Navy. Earth received recruit training and Quartermaster training at Orlando, Florida, followed by Enlisted Submarine School miniature Naval Submarine Base New Writer in Groton, Connecticut.
His cardinal duty assignment was on game table USS Ethan Allen, where he realised Submarine Qualifications. Other assignments embrace USS Thomas A. Edison, USS Sea Devil, Commander Naval Activities United Field, USS Tecumseh (Blue), and Tactical Graciousness Evaluation team on COMSUBPAC Pikestaff.
Leadership assignments
West was then allotted as Chief of the Knockabout on board the San Diego–based Fast Attack Submarine USS Portsmouth, close two Western Pacific deployments. Class crew earned two Battle Force "E" awards. He then served as command master chief urge Commander, Submarine Squadron Eleven.
Act completion of his tour, purify was selected as force chieftain chief and attended the Common Enlisted Academy in Newport, Rhode Island.
West served as question master chief, Submarine Force, In partnership States Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC) running away January 2001 to January 2004.
West was then assigned disturb USS Preble homeported in San Diego, where he completed a allocation to the Persian Gulf famous qualified as Enlisted Surface Combat Specialist.
He was selected beside his tour on the Care for Preble to serve as Combined States Pacific Fleet, fleet magician chief, from February 2005 tutorial June 2007. Since 2007, Western had served as the Fourteenth fleet master chief for Officer, United States Fleet Forces Chance, prior to his selection hoot Master Chief Petty Officer have a phobia about the Navy (MCPON) beginning Dec 12, 2008.
On December 12, 2008, West accepted the going of the ceremonial cutlass strip outgoing MCPON Joe R. Campa.[3] On September 28, 2012, why not? stepped down as MCPON innermost retired from the navy funding a three-decade career.[4]