Bon Homme Richard (LHD 6) - Naval Cruise Book

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I ,-f. g Z ti ii il!ILlG'ili mm, Captain Michelle Howard graduated from '- Gateway High School in Aurora, Colorado in l978. She attended the United States Naval Academy, graduating in I982. Her initial shipboard assignments include USS HUNLEY IIAS 3Il and USS LEXINGTON IAVT I6l. While serving onboard the LEXING- TON, she received the Secretary of the Naxy!Navy League Captain WINIFRED COLLINS award in May I987. This award is given to one woman officer a year for outstanding leadership. From I987 to I990, she was as an instructor and later course coordinator at the STEAM Engineering Officer of the Watch IEOOWI course in Coronado, California. Captain Howard was a Distinguished Graduate from Department Head School in I990. to USS MOUNT FLINT IAE I993, she rotated to the Bureau of Personnel, as the Navy's liaison to the Defense Advisory Committee l 1 Military Services. 4 V action officer for the 0 ,,. Naxy policy. In Ianuary I996, I Executive Officer of USS TORTUGA She was the first woman in the Navy to be lb l ll lfl to the Adriatic Sea in support of Operation IOINT i ENDEAVOR, a peacekeeping effort in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. Sixgl days after returning from the Mediterranean deployment, TORTUGA departed on a West African Training Cruise, where the ship's Sailors, with embarked Marines and US Coast Guard detachment, operated with the naval services of seven African nations. Captain Howard graduated from the Army's Command and General Staff College in lune I998. She completed a Masters in Military Arts and Sciences with a focus in History. When she assumed command of USS RUSHMORE ILSD 47l on I2 March I999, Captain Howard became the first African American woman to command a ship in the US Naxgf. RUSHMORE is the Naxys onhf Amphibious Smart Ship . The Smart Ship concept integrates and evaluates commercial off the shelf technologies for future fleet application. In December I999. RUSHMORE became the first Smart Ship to complete a six-month deployment. In November 2000, she was assigned to I-3, Global Operations, Readiness on the loint Staff in the Pentagon. In February 2003, she became the Executive Assistant to the loint Staff Director of Operations. Captain Howard assumed duties as Commander, Amphibious Squadron SEVEN in May 2004.

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3 X D Z ,.l L f- 'E , , ' I - ,. -N. , if ,Y G J , K r.J , meeuw f I 1 A 0 j Colonel Greenwood entered the Marine Corps in r I977 through the Platoon Leaders Course after graduating from Washington and Lee University. 2 Upon completion of The Basic School and Infantry Officers Course, he was assigned to 3d rn Kaneohe Hawaii dragon platoon During this In I98I I Washington D company executive in-charge of special Corps Institute. I Warfare School for duty Officer he was Carolina as Plans henparticipated in GRIFFIN-93. tarn Warfare T officer for Special Caribbean ' Operations SUPPORT DEMOCRACY and DEMOCRACY at Camp Hartien Haiti In Iune he was Executive Officer 2d Marine Regiment From Iuhf to September I995 he deployed to Combined Arms tqlgll Exer command of Ist Battalion 2d Marines and participated rn CAX IO-96 and other training exercises Landing Team IXZ deployed with 22d Marine Expeditionary Unit tSpecral Operations Capablel and I IAN RETRIEVAL SILVER WAKE and NOBLE OBELISK rn Zaire, Albania and Sierra Leone GI In Iune he was asstrgnea to top level school at the Iohn F. Kennedy School of Government. In April I999, he reported to I Washington D.C. where he served as aide to the Commandant of the Marine Corps before being reassigned to the National Q Security Council. Y In Iuhf 2003, Colonel Greenwood assumed command ofthe I5th Marine Expeditionanf Unit at Camp Pendleton, California. I , Colonel Greenwood's personal decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal with two gold stars, and the Navy Commendation Medal. t 14 L' I l r