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Admiral John Harvey, Jr, USN
John Harvey was commissioned from the US Naval Academy in 1973 and immediately
commenced training in the Navy’s nuclear propulsion program. He has served at sea
in US Ships Enterprise, Bainbridge, McInerney, Nimitz and Long Beach and commanded
US Ships David R Ray, Cape St George and Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight/Theodore
Roosevelt Strike Group. Ashore he has served three tours including serving as the
senior military assistant to the Under Secretary of Defence (Policy) and on the Navy
Staff as Deputy for Warfare Integration. Most recently, he served as the 54th Chief of
Naval Personnel/OPNAV N1 and as the Director, Navy Staff. Admiral Harvey assumed
command of the US Fleet Forces Command in July 2009.
Lieutenant Commander Catherine Hayes, RAN
Catherine Hayes joined the RAN in 1992. She is a qualified Principle Warfare Officer
specialising in air warfare. Her sea postings include HMA Ships Darwin, Geelong (II),
Melbourne (III), Sydney (IV) and Kanimbla (II), and command of Armidale class patrol
boat crew Attack Five on HMA Ships Armidale (II), Bathurst (II), Albany (II) and Ararat
(II). She has deployed on Operations SLIPPER, FALCONER, SUMATRA ASSIST I and
II, ANODE, CRANBERRY, RELEX and RESOLUTE. Her shore postings include working
in the team coordinating the introduction into service of the ADF’s new amphibious
capability and studying at the Australian Command and Staff College in 2009. She is
currently the Staff Officer to the Vice Chief of the Defence Force.
Commander David Hobbs, MBE, RN (Rtd)
David Hobbs joined the Royal Navy in 1964. As a naval pilot he flew Gannet, Hunter
and Canberra aircraft and Wessex commando helicopters. After retiring from the active
list in 1997, he was curator and deputy director of the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Royal
Naval Air Station Yeovilton, UK, until 2006. He has since been a full time author and
historian. Published in 1982, his first book has been followed by many more, including
Aircraft Carriers of the Royal and Commonwealth Navies (1996) and A Century of Carrier
Aviation (2009). He has read papers at major historical conferences worldwide and
established a reputation as a media broadcaster on naval aviation matters.
Chief Petty Officer, 2nd Class, E Gordon Howe
Gordon Howe enlisted in the Canadian Forces in 1976 as an Electronic Warfare Operator
and was employed as such on ships of the Canadian Atlantic Fleet. After completing
his technical training in 1982, he sailed on HMCS Athabaskan before being posted to
Canadian Forces Fleet School in 1985. Here he developed and taught Shipborne Digital
Equipment Maintenance courses to technicians from both Pacific and Atlantic Fleets.
In 1993 he went west to the Canadian Pacific Fleet, sailing on HMC Ships Vancouver,
Ottawa and Winnipeg, as well as two stints in the West Coast Fleet School were he was