Jonathan w greenert biography of martin

The nation’s top Navy officer is a bubblehead and proud of it.

ADM Jonathan W. Greenert '75, USN (Ret.): ADM Greenert was born and raised in Butler, Pa. He attended the Naval Academy, majored in Ocean.

ADM Jonathan W. Greenert '75, USN (Ret.): ADM Greenert was born and raised in Butler, Pa. He attended the Naval Academy, majored in Ocean.

Jonathan W. Greenert, the chief of naval operations, launching good-natured “spirit spots” in the run-up to the game.

Odierno, chief of staff, US Army; Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, chief of naval operations; Admiral James A. Winnefeld.

Born in · People from Butler (Pennsylvania) · from the US Naval Academy · U.S. Navy Chief of Staff · Vice Chief of Naval Operations, U.S.

He has also served as the Commander of Southern Command's Joint Task.

In Navy slang, a bubblehead is a sailor who has served his career mainly in the submarine fleet, and that is surely true of Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, who became the 30th Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) on September 23, , succeeding Admiral Gary Roughead.

The CNO is the most senior uniformed officer in the Department of the Navy (unless the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is a Navy officer) and functions as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and as a military adviser to the Secretary of the Navy, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, the Secretary of Defense, and the President.

 

Born May 15, , Greenert was the third of six children born to a steelworker in the Pittsburgh suburb of Butler, Pennsylvania, where he worked two paper routes as a youth.

Greenert graduated from Butler High School in , where he was on the swim team and student council, and was a member of the National Hon