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VIcE ADMIRAL EDwARD MooRE, jR. (RET.) COMMANDER, NAVAL SURFACE FORCE, U.S. PACIFIC FLEET
status while in school, including regular drills and annual active duty periods; during these periods, Brother Moore served on the USS Hyman and USS Woodson. He graduated with a degree in psychology and received his commission as an Ensign in 1968. Brother Moore was immediately assigned to a ship, the fleet oiler USS Severn, in June 1968. On the ship, he at- tended Legal School, Registered Publications School, and a navigation refresher course. He spent a total of eighteen months on the Severn with time spent as the administrative officer, gunnery officer, communications officer, classified material officer, and navigator. In June 1969, Brother Moore was promoted to lieutenant, junior grade. In December 1969, he was assigned to the pre-commissioning unit for the USS Lang, a frigate. He initially served as communications officer and later served as operations officer, with two deployments to the Tonkin Gulf during the Vietnam War. He married Deborah Cooper in Champaign, Illinois, on December 24, 1969. He was promoted to lieutenant in December 1970. In August 1974, Brother Moore became the junior of- ficer assignment officer and shore assignments coordinator for the Surface Warfare Community in the Bureau of Naval Personnel. The same month, he earned a graduate degree in business administration from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. In December 1974, he was promoted to lieutenant commander. He attended the Department Head Course at the Surface Warfare Officer’s School Command in 1976 and 1977 before joining the USS Sterett, a cruiser. Moore served as the executive officer of the USS Buchanan, a destroyer, from 1978 to 1979. He was promoted to commander in De- cember 1979. He next served as the Current Navy Operations Analyst on the staff of the commander of the U.S. Pacific Command from 1980 to 1984. Moore received his first command after that assignment. He commanded the USS Lewis B. Puller from 1984 to 1986. The guided missile frigate deployed to the western Pacific in 1986. Brother Moore was promoted to captain in August 1986. Serving as the assistant chief of staff for manpower and personnel on the staff of the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet from 1986 to 1989, he was selected to become the first commanding officer of the USS Cowpens, an Aegis guided missile cruiser then under construction in Bath, Maine. The ship was commissioned on March 9, 1991. Brother Moore led the Cowpens and three other ships in
Vice Admiral Edward Moore, Jr., United States Navy Retired.
A s a Vice Admiral at the time of his retirement in July 2001, Edward Moore, Jr. was the highest- ranking African American in the Navy. Brother Moore was born on February 18, 1945, in New York City. He is the eldest child of Edward Moore Sr. and Freddie Mardell Hayes Moore, with two broth- ers and a sister. The family eventually moved to Little Rock (Pulaski County), where Brother Moore graduated from Hor- ace Mann High School in 1963. On April 2, two months before his high school graduation, Brother Moore enlisted in the U.S. Navy Reserve. The day after his high school graduation, he departed Little Rock for recruit training in San Diego, California. While in training, he was accepted into the Reserve Officer Candidate program. As part of this program, he began college at Southern Illinois University after completing his training in August 1963. A full- time student, he was required to maintain satisfactory reserve
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