Michael Boorda
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Jeremy Michael Boorda was a United States Navy admiral who served as the 25th Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda is notable as the first person to have risen from the enlisted ranks to become Chief of
Boorda's official Chief of Naval Operations portrait; note the two ribbons with "V" devices
Boorda's headstone at Arlington National Cemetery located at Section 64, Grave 7101, Grid MM-17
Elmo Zumwalt
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Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt Jr. was a United States Navy officer and the youngest person to serve as Chief of Naval Operations. As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt playe
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…but had been an unintentional mistake that resulted from his following verbal instructions delivered to commanders during the Vietnam War by Admiral Elmo Zumwalt when he was Chief of Naval Operations, as well as conflicting interpretations and updating of Navy award regulations. Newsweek later reported that…
Zumwalt in August 1970
L-R Secretary of the Navy John Warner, Randall "Duke" Cunningham, William Driscoll, and CNO Zumwalt.
Zumwalt's casket being carried by pallbearers at his funeral in January 2000.