Vice Admiral

Vice Admiral

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 Michael C. Colley, USN (Ret.), is a retired United States Navy

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 officer whose career included several high-ranking commands in the submarine force and elsewhere in national security positions. Since leaving the Navy, Colley has been active in the national security policy and analysis field, intelligence evaluation and senior management level positions in the public sector. He also serves as an elected member of the Libertarian National Committee

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Biography

Colley, born in Wheaton, Minnesota, on 19 February 1938, graduated with distinction from the United States Naval Academy

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. He had sea duty assignments on several nuclear-powered submarine

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s and was Commanding Officer of the attack submarine . He was Commander of the Navy Recruiting Command for three years, and Deputy Commander of the submarine directorate in the Pentagon

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. He earned a master's degree in Computer Systems from the Naval Postgraduate School

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. Other operational assignments included command of the submarine tender

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  in Guam

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 and the Navy

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's largest submarine squadron in Groton, Connecticut

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. During the first Gulf War

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, he was commander

ComSubPac

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 of the Pacific Fleet

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 submarine force of over 40 boats from his headquarters at Pearl Harbor

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. Earlier, he was Director, Division of Mathematics and Science (including the departments of math, physics, chemistry, oceanography and computer science) at the Naval Academy

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