Patricia Ann Tracey

Infobox Military Person
name= Patricia Ann Tracey
born= birth date and age|1950|11|30
died=
placeofbirth= The Bronx, New York
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caption= Vice Admiral Patricia Tracey
nickname=
allegiance= flagicon|United States United States of America
branch= United States Navy
serviceyears= 1970-2004
rank= Vice Admiral
commands= Chief of Naval Education and Training
unit=
battles=
awards= Defense Distinguished Service Medal Navy Distinguished Service Medal Legion of Merit (3)
laterwork=

Patricia Ann Tracey was a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy. As a Vice Admiral, she held the positions of Chief of Naval Education and Training (CNET) (1996-98), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy (1998-2001) and Director of Navy Staff from 2001 until the time of her retirement on 01 October 2004. At that time she was also the senior ranking female officer in the United States military.

Biography

A native of The Bronx, New York, Tracey graduated from The College of New Rochelle with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics, completed Women's Officer Candidate School, and was commissioned as an Ensign in 1970. She also earned a Master's Degree, with distinction, in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Her initial assignment in the United States Navy was to the Naval Space Surveillance Systems in Dahlgren, Virginia where she qualified as a Command Center Officer and Orbital Analyst. Following a tour on the staff of the Commander of the Pacific Fleet, she served at the Bureau of Naval Personnel as the Placement Officer for graduate education and service college students. From 1980 to 1982, Vice Admiral Tracey served as an extended planning analyst in the Systems Analysis division on the Chief of Naval Operations’ staff. She served as Executive Officer of the Naval Recruiting District in Buffalo, New York, until 1984, where she was assigned as a manpower and personnel analyst in the Program Appraisal Division of the Chief of Naval Operations’ staff.

Her first command tour was at the Naval Technical Training Center at Treasure Island, California from 1986 to 1988, followed by a staff position with the Chief of Naval Personnel as the head of the Enlisted Plans and Community Management Branch. She served as Commanding Officer of Naval Station Long Beach, then the second largest homeport of the Pacific Fleet. Tracey became a Fellow with the Chief of Naval Operations' Strategic Studies Group at the Naval War College in 1992. She was assigned as Director for Manpower and Personnel on the staff of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, serving in this capacity from 1993 to 1995. She subsequently served from June 1995 to June 1996 as Commander, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, home of the Navy's only boot camp. Tracey was nominated for appointment to the grade of vice admiral and assignment as Chief of Naval Education and Training (CNET) and Director Naval Training, N7, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon in May 1996. [ cite news | title = Navy Flag Officer Announcement | work = News Release No. 275-96 | publisher = U.S. Department of Defense | date = May 13, 1996 | url = http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=881 | accessdate = 2008-04-26] Tracey served in this position from 1996 to 1998. (CNET was replaced by Naval Education and Training Command in in 2003 but remains headquartered at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida). In September 1998, Tracey was assigned as deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. [ cite news | title = Navy Flag Officer Announcement | work = News Release No. 493-98 | publisher = U.S. Department of Defense | date = September 23, 1998 | url = http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=1843 | accessdate = 2008-04-26] In June 2001, Tracey was assigned as director, Navy Staff, N09B, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. [ cite news | title = Navy Flag Officer Announcement | work = News Release No. 260-01 | publisher = U.S. Department of Defense | date = June 11, 2001 | url = http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=2944 | accessdate = 2008-04-26 ] She retired from this billet on September 2nd, 2004.

Awards and Decorations

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ee also

Women in the United States Navy

References

External links

*cite web|accessdate=2007-10-27
url=http://www.wic.org/bio/ptracey.htm
title=WIC Biography: Vice Admiral Patricia Ann Tracey
work=Biographies
publisher=Women's International Center
*cite web|accessdate=2007-10-27
url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/speeches/clark040902.txt
title=Speech at Vice Admiral Patricia Tracey Retirement Ceremony
date=September 2,2004
author=Clark, Admiral Vern
publisher=United States Navy