Today’s United States Navy and NATO

Please join the Military and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee as we welcome Vice Admiral Doug G. Perry, Commander, Joint Force Command Norfolk; Commander, U.S. 2nd Fleet; and Director Combined Joint Operations from the Sea Centre of Excellence, who will share from his 35-years of experience as a nuclear-powered submarine officer—and more recently as a dual-hatted commander. Perry will discuss the posture, strength, and readiness of the U.S. Navy to meet the rapidly changing security challenges of our times. As the dual-hatted commander of Joint Force Command Norfolk and U.S. 2nd Fleet, he will also address his fairly new NATO command that is responsible for planning and coordinating joint military operations “from Florida to Finnmark.”

Perry’s visit to Chicago is part of the U.S. Navy’s outreach and engagement with non-fleet concentration areas of the country—known as Navy Weeks. Chicago’s Navy Week is being conducted August 5 – 11, 2024. Chicago will see Sailors coming in from across the fleet—especially from the USS ILLINOIS, USS RICKOVER, and Naval Station Great Lakes — to participate in events and activities to educate, inform, and inspire the public about their Navy. The culminating event of Chicago’s Navy Week will be the week-end performance of the Blue Angels during the Chicago Air & Water Show.

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Vice Adm. Perry is a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. As a flag officer, Perry commanded Submarine Group Nine and Task Group 114.3, and served as director, Joint and Fleet Operations, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, and Director, Undersea Warfare Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (N97).

He served at sea as division officer and Navy diver aboard USS Pittsburgh (SSN 720); executive officer/operations officer aboard Submarine NR-1 and executive officer of USS Maine (SSBN 741). His deployment experiences span the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Arctic, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic and Pacific.

As commanding officer of USS Pasadena (SSN 752), he led the ship on highly successful deployments to the Eastern and Western Pacific. Perry served as, Commander, Submarine Development Squadron Five where he led Submarine Force development of unmanned systems tactics and employment in subsea-seabed warfare and commanded the Navy’s squadron of Seawolf-Class Fast Attack submarines.

Ashore, he served as Submarine Force Atlantic chief of staff; branch chief for Director Undersea Warfare; combatant commander, Joint Staff; Joint Exercise Engagement division chief and subsequent chief of staff for the Director of Joint Force Development; executive assistant to Commander, Submarine Forces Pacific Fleet; deputy commander, Submarine Squadron 7; congressional liaison in the Navy Office of Legislative Affairs and Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps instructor at Marquette University.

Vice Adm. Perry is a graduate of the Joint Force Maritime Component Commander Course, Combined Forces Land Component Commander Course and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Senior Managers Group Course.

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