Inside the White House Situation Room
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Metzger, James W.
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James W. Metzger is a retired Vice Admiral of the US Navy. His positions included Assistant to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff;Commander of United States Seventh Fleet; Commander Submarines Mediterranean.
Also, Director of Strategy and Policy for the military; Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, two Vice Chiefs of Naval
Operations and the Commander of the Atlantic Fleet; Commander
of the Submarine Development Squadron comprised of seven
submarines; Director of the Submarine Prospective Commanding
Officer School; Commanding Officer of a 750 million dollar Los
Angeles Class nuclear submarine; Engineer during new
construction, as well as most other positions while serving on
nuclear submarines. Member of the Nuclear Propulsion Examining
Board for two years involved in detailed evaluations of over 50
reactor operation organizations.
Vice Admiral Metzger has a B.S. in electrical engineering, United
States Naval Academy and an M.S. in electrical engineering,
Michigan State University.
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Colonel Leslie Callahan, for whom the memorial endowment is named, joined the GT Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE) faculty in 1969 after a twenty-five year military career. A 1944 graduate of the US Military Academy, he earned his master’s degree (1951) and Ph.D. (1961) in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He established the Callahan Endowment in 1993.
Date
2009-11-03
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78:35 minutes
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Lecture