Editing Elmo Zumwalt (section)

==Assignments==

# August 1942 – November 1943, watch officer, {{USS|Phelps|DD-360}}
# November 1943 – December 1943, student, Operational Training Command Pacific, San Francisco, Cal.
# January 1944 – October 1945, watch officer, {{USS|Robinson|DD-562}}
# October 1945 – March 1946, executive officer, {{USS|Saufley|DD-465}}
# March 1946 – January 1948, executive officer, {{USS|Zellars|DD-777}}
# January 1948 – June 1950, assistant professor of naval sciences, NROTC Unit, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
# June 1950 – March 1951, commanding officer, {{USS|Tills|DE-748}}
# March 1951 – June 1952, navigator, {{USS|Wisconsin|BB-64}} 
# June 1952 – June 1953, student, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island 
# June 1953 – July 1955, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, D.C. 
# July 1955 – July 1957, commanding officer, {{USS|Arnold J. Isbell|DD-869}}  
# July 1957 – December 1957: lieutenant detailer, Bureau of Naval Personnel
# December 1957 – August 1959, special assistant, executive assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Personnel and Reserve Forces 
# August 1959 – June 1961, prospective commanding officer, commanding officer, {{USS|Dewey|DLG-14}} 
# August 1961 – June 1962, student, National War College, Washington, D.C.
# June 1962 – December 1963, desk officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs) 
# December 1963 – June 1965, executive assistant, Office of the Secretary of the Navy
# July 1965 – July 1966, Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla Seven 
# August 1966 – August 1968  Director, Systems Analysis Division, Office of the CNO 
# September 1968 – May 1970, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam and Chief, Naval Advisory Group Vietnam, Saigon, South Vietnam 
# July 1970 – June 1974, Chief of Naval Operations, the Pentagon, Arlington, Va.