It is time for us Information Warfare Officers to nominate our deserving peers, CWO2 to O5, for recognition of their "superior career achievement". Nominations are due to FCCC10FNSAHAWARDS@NAVY.MIL NLT 07 February 2014.
There were 7 nominations for the 2013 award. The winner was LCDR Lemuel "Seth" Lawrence, executive officer of Navy Information Operations Command Pensacola.1
INFORMATION WARFARE OFFICER DISTINGUISHED LEADERSHIP AWARD
MSGID/GENADMIN/COMTENTHFLT//
POC/JERRY BECKLEHIMER/CIV/COMUSFLTCYBERCOM FORT MEADE MD/
TEL: 443-634-4676//
GENTEXT/REMARKS/PASS TO FLEET INFORMATION WARFARE AND
CRYPTOLOGIC UNITS/SSES
1. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MESSAGE IS TO SOLICIT NOMINATIONS
FOR THE CAPTAIN JOSEPH ROCHEFORT INFORMATION WARFARE (IW)
OFFICER DISTINGUISHED LEADERSHIP AWARD.
2. CAPTAIN JOSEPH JOHN ROCHEFORT WAS A MAJOR FIGURE IN THE
U.S. NAVYS CRYPTOLOGIC AND INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT FROM
1925 TO 1947. HE HEADED THE NAVYS FLEDGLING CRYPTANALYTIC
ORGANIZATION IN THE 1920 S AND PROVIDED SINGULARLY SUPERB
CRYPTOLOGIC SUPPORT TO THE FLEET DURING WORLD WAR II,
LEADING TO VICTORY IN THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC. AT THE END OF
HIS CAREER (1942-1946), ROCHEFORT SUCCESSFULLY HEADED THE
PACIFIC STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE GROUP IN WASHINGTON.
ROCHEFORT DIED IN 1976. IN 1986, HE POSTHUMOUSLY RECEIVED
THE PRESIDENTS NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVICE MEDAL, THE HIGHEST
MILITARY AWARD DURING PEACETIME, FOR HIS CONTRIBUTIONS
DURING THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY.
3. THE INTENT OF THE CAPTAIN ROCHEFORT IW OFFICER
DISTINGUISHED LEADERSHIP AWARD IS TO ANNUALLY RECOGNIZE THE
SUPERIOR CAREER ACHIEVEMENT OF ONE IW OFFICER. IN THE
SPIRIT OF CAPTAIN ROCHEFORT, SPECIFIC CONSIDERATION WILL BE
GIVEN TO LEADERSHIP, TEAMWORK, OPERATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND
ADHERENCE TO THE PRINCIPLE BY WHICH HE SERVED, WE CAN
ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING PROVIDED NO ONE CARES WHO GETS THE
CREDIT."
4. IW OFFICERS (181X, 644X AND 744X) RANGING FROM CWO2 TO
COMMANDER ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THE AWARD WITH CONSIDERATION
GIVEN TO CONTRIBUTIONS WHILE SERVING AS BOTH IW OFFICERS
AND CRYPTOLOGIC TECHNICIANS.
5. NOMINATION PROCEDURES:
A. PEER NOMINATIONS WILL BE THE ONLY SOURCE OF NOMINATIONS.
ONLY COMMISSIONED OFFICERS WHO ARE THEMSELVES ELIGIBLE TO BE
SELECTED IN THE SELECTION YEAR MAY NOMINATE ONE PEER. THE
NOMINATION WILL BE MADE ON A TWO PAGE, SIGNED LETTER
CONTAINING THE FULL NAME AND UNIT OF THE PEER NOMINATED WITH
TYPED JUSTIFICATION (WHICH WILL BE HELD IN CONFIDENCE) BASED
ON THE CRITERIA. THE NOMINATION LETTER WILL BE FORWARDED
DIRECTLY TO COMFLTCYBERCOM AWARDS VIA EMAIL AT:
FCCC10FNSAHAWARDS(AT)NAVY.MIL NLT 7 FEB 2014.
B. NOMINATIONS WILL BE REVIEWED BY A SELECTION BOARD OF
CAPTAINS DESIGNATED BY COMFLTCYBERCOM. FINAL SELECTION WILL
BE MADE BY THE COMMANDER.
6. AWARD SELECTION WILL BE ANNOUNCED VIA NAVAL MESSAGE.
PRESENTATION VENUE OF THE AWARD WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED AT THE
U.S. NAVAL CRYPTOLOGIC VETERANS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONVENTION
TO BE HELD IN MID MAY 2014 (IF FUNDING IS AVAILABLE BY THE
COMMAND ATTACHED.) THE AWARDEE WILL RECEIVE A PLAQUE
COMMEMORATING SELECTION AND A DISPLAY IN THE FLTCYBERCOM
HERITAGE ROOM WILL HONOR ALL AWARDEES.//
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