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Rear Admiral Robert O. Wray, Jr., United States Navy, is a businessman, author and retired two-star admiral who recently served as the President of INSURV, the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey. He now serves as CEO of Blue Star Veterans Network, based in Washington DC. ==Navy career== Wray graduated from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in May 1979, with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. While at the Naval Academy, he earned three varsity letters and was captain of the offshore sailing team. He was also the chairman of the Brigade Honor Committee. Upon graduation he entered the Navy’s nuclear power program. He attended six months of classroom training in Orlando Florida, and then six months of hands-on reactor operations in Saratoga New York. Upon successful qualification as a nuclear officer in October 1980, he was assigned to the nuclear cruiser in Norfolk, Virginia.〔 Wray served on the ''Mississippi'' for four years, leaving in the summer of 1984. During those four years he completed several deployments to the Caribbean, North Atlantic, and Mediterranean, including duty off Lebanon during the 1983 Lebanon crisis. He then spent two years teaching and conducting reactor operations at the Navy reactor prototypes at the Naval Reactors Facility in Idaho Falls, Idaho.〔 In late 1986, he transitioned to the United States Navy Reserve, and moved to New England. Between 1986 and 2004, Wray served in a number of different reserve units, serving part-time on weekends and during summer training periods. He commanded five different units and had significant reserve leadership roles in New England, San Diego, and Naples, Italy. In 2004, Wray returned to temporary active duty to support the transition of sovereignty back to the Iraqi government. Working as a Navy Captain on an interagency team reporting to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, Wray specialized in security for the contractors involved in the reconstruction of Iraq. He spent several months at the Pentagon working this issue, and then several more on-scene in Baghdad. There he founded and was the first chief of operations for the first-ever operations center coordinating contractor, military, non-governmental operations in reconstruction.〔 In 2007, Wray was promoted to Rear Admiral and in early 2008 returned to full-time Navy active duty. His first flag position was as Deputy Commander, Military Sealift Command, in Washington DC.〔 Military Sealift Command (MSC) operates approximately 180 ships for the Navy and Department of Defense, providing combat logistics force capabilities, special missions, pre-positioning of DoD supplies worldwide, and strategic sealift. After three years at MSC, in October 2010, Wray was promoted to Rear Admiral (upper half) (O-8, or two-stars). He was assigned as Vice Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa, US Sixth Fleet, in Naples Italy. After only six months in this position, he was assigned as President, Navy Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV), Norfolk Virginia, in March 2011. INSURV was established by Congress in 1882 and is tasked with inspecting the ships, submarines, and carriers of the Navy, and reporting on their readiness to the Secretary of the Navy and Congress. Wray also authored a number of papers during his naval career, including "The Utility of a Three-Tiered Navy," for the US Naval Institute's Proceedings Magazine. 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「Robert O. Wray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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