Robert D. Reilly Jr

Rear Admiral Robert D. Reilly Jr., USN, is the commander of the Military Sealift Command

Reilly, a native of Winnetka, Illinois, and a graduate of New Trier High School's West Campus, comes from a family with more than a century of service in the U.S. Armed Forces. Commissioned in 1975 through the Navy's Reserve Officer Training Corps program, Rear Admiral Reilly first served aboard USS Edson (DD946) as Combat Information Center Officer and Damage Control Assistant.

His other shipboard tours include commissioning USS Fletcher (DD-992) as its first Operations Officer; Engineering Officer aboard USS Sterett (CG-31); Executive Officer of USS John Young (DD-973); and as Commanding Officer, USS Halyburton (FFG-40).

Rear Admiral Reilly's additional operational tours at sea include duties as Flag Secretary, Cruiser Destroyer Group One, where he participated in the western Pacific and Southwest Asia deployments of USS New Jersey (BB-62), USS Missouri (BB-63), and USS Midway (CV-41) Battleship and Carrier Battle Groups; and command of Destroyer Squadron Fifty (COMDESRON 50), homeported in the Kingdom of Bahrain. He also commanded Cruiser Destroyer Group Two and the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) Carrier Strike Group.

Ashore, Rear Admiral Reilly has served as Fleet Readiness Assessment Officer, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet staff in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Surface Warfare and Weapons Procurement Analyst, Program Resource Appraisal Division (N81), Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; Surface Warfare Junior Officer Assignment Branch Head (PERS 412), Bureau of Naval Personnel; Joint Operations Division Pacific Command Division Chief, Joint Staff (J3); Director, Environmental Readiness, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO N45); and as Deputy Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Information Technology (CNO N098).

In March 2006, Rear Admiral Reilly assumed command of Military Sealift Command (MSC).

Rear Admiral Reilly earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Washington, and a Master's in Public Administration (National Resources) from the George Washington University. He is also a 1993 graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.