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Vice Admiral David John Shackleton (born 2 March 1948) is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), who served as Chief of Navy from 1999 to 2002. ==Naval career== David Shackleton joined the Navy from Adelaide, South Australia, in 1966 under Supplementary List (Executive) Scheme, and saw service in Vietnam while qualifying as a seaman officer.〔(Vice Admiral David Shackleton, AO, RAN, Chief of Navy ) Australian Defence Magazine〕 He was given command of the destroyer escort in 1988,〔(Techport Australia )〕 was the Maritime commander for the opposing forces during Exercise Kangaroo 1989, and reached the rank of captain in 1989. He commanded the destroyer from 1991 to 1992,〔 and was promoted to commodore in 1993. He is a graduate of the RAN Staff College and the Joint Services Staff College, and has earned a Masters of Business Administration (Executive) from Monash University.〔 He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He was promoted to rear admiral in 1998,〔 and then vice admiral and Chief of Navy in 1999.〔 He initiated various organisational changes across the Navy.〔 He was a senior Navy witness to the Senate Enquiry into the Children overboard affair.〔(7.30 Report – 25 March 2002: Defence Dept secretary offered to resign )〕 He was appointed as an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) in 2000,〔(It's an honour – Order of Australia )〕 and Commander in the United States Legion of Merit in 2001. He retired from the RAN in 2002.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Shackleton (admiral)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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