Carlisle Trost

Infobox Military Person
name=Carlisle Albert Herman Trost


caption=Admiral Carlisle Trost, 1990.
born= birth date and age|1930|4|24
died=
placeofbirth=Valmeyer, Illinois
placeofdeath=
nickname=
allegiance=United States of America
branch=United States Navy
serviceyears= 1953-1990
rank= Admiral
unit=
commands= Submarine Flotilla One Submarine Group Five U.S. Seventh Fleet U.S. Atlantic Fleet Chief of Naval Operations (1986-1990)
battles=
awards=Distinguished Service Medal Defense Distinguished Service Medal (2) Navy Distinguished Service Medal (3) Army Distinguished Service Medal Air Force Distinguished Service Medal Legion of Merit (3)
relations=
laterwork=U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, Chairmancite web
accessdate=2008-01-04
url=https://www.usna.com/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?pid=457&srcid=448
title="Board of Trustees 2006-2007"
publisher=U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association]
Admiral Carlisle Albert Herman Trost, USN (born April 24, 1930 iin Valmeyer, Illinois) is a retired United States Navy officer who served as the Navy’s twenty-third Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1 July 1986 to 29 June 1990. He oversaw the Navy during the end of the Cold War, and the preparations for the first Persian Gulf War (1991). He retired from active naval service on 1 July 1990, following completion of a four-year term as CNO.

Naval career

He graduated first in his U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1953 and was commissioned as an Ensign. He volunteered and was accepted to begin submarine training in 1954 and once again graduated first in his class from Submarine School in New London, CT. During his more than thirty-seven years of commissioned service, Admiral Trost served at sea in destroyers and diesel-powered and nuclear submarines, including tours as executive officer of two nuclear-powered submarines and as commanding officer of a Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine.

After selection to Flag Rank in 1973, he commanded Submarine Flotilla One/Submarine Group FIVE. Later operational assignments included deputy commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet; commander, Seventh Fleet (1980-1981);cite web|accessdate=2008-01-04
url=http://www.history.navy.mil/library/guides/rosters/seventh%20fleet.htm
title=Commander Seventh Fleet
work=Lists of Senior Officers and Civilian Officials of the US Navy
publisher=Navy Department Library, Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy] Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (1985-1986),cite web|accessdate=2008-01-04
url=http://www.history.navy.mil/library/guides/rosters/atlantic.htm
title=Atlantic Command, Commander in Chief US
work=Lists of Senior Officers and Civilian Officials of the US Navy
publisher=Navy Department Library, Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy] and deputy commander, U.S. Atlantic Command. Ashore.

He served as military assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, executive assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, and on the Navy Staff as Director, Systems Analysis Division, Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel and Director, Navy Program Planning.

In May 1986, Trost was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to succeed Admiral James D. Watkins as Chief of Naval Operations.Gordon, "New York Times", May 1986.] Halloran, "New York Times", May 1986.] Trost served as CNO from July 1, 1986 to June 29, 1990.cite web|accessdate=2008-01-04
url=http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq35-1.htm
title=Chief of Naval Operations
publisher=Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy] He was succeeded by Admiral Admiral Frank B. Kelso.

Awards and honors

Admiral Trost’s decorations and awards include seven Distinguished Service Medals (two Defense DSMs, three Navy DSMs, one Army DSM, one Air Force DSM), the Legion of Merit (three awards), the Navy Achievement Medal, numerous campaign and service awards, and personal decorations from a number of foreign nations, including Japan's Order of the Rising Sun (2nd Class with Gold and Silver Star) and the Republic of Korea's Order of National Security Merit Gugseon Medal.cite web
accessdate=2007-03-31
url=http://www.siue.edu/ALESTLE/library/fall1997/nov.06.97/veteran.html
title="US Admiral Trost comes to SIUE for Veteran's Day speech, Remembering our veterans"
author=Hopkins, Rebecca
work=The Alestle
publisher=Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
date=November 6, 1997]

Trost is active in the Boy Scouts of America as an adult, an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. [cite web |url =http://members.cox.net/scouting179/Eagle%20Distinguished.htm |title =Distinguished Eagle Scouts |publisher =Troop & Pack 179 |accessdate =2006-03-02]

Organizational affiliations

He was recognized as a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and has also served on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association, as well as President of the Class of '53. A fellow classmate and another past President of the Class of '53 is Texas businessman and former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot.

Post-Navy career and family life

Since his retirement from the Navy, Admiral Trost has served on the boards of directors of a number of U.S. corporations. He is currently serving as Chairman of the Board of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, in a term that ends in Spring 2009.cite web
accessdate=2008-01-04
url=https://www.usna.com/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?pid=457&srcid=448
title="Board of Trustees 2006-2007"
publisher=United States Naval Academy Alumni Association]

He has four children and six grandchildren.

Notes

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References

*cite web|accessdate=2007-01-03
url=http://www.jinsa.org/about/adboard/adboard.html?documentid=776
title=Advisory Board Biography: Adm. Carlisle Trost, USN (Ret.)
publisher=Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
*cite news
title=President Selects New Chief of Naval Operations
author=Gordon, Michael R.
work=New York Times
date=May 29, 1986
page=Section A, Page 24, Column 1
*cite news|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F5071EFD3A580C738FDDAC0894DE484D81
accessdate=2007-01-02
title="2 Career Men Who Worked Their Way to the Top of Navy and Air Force: Carlisle Albert Herman Trost"
author=Halloran, Richard
work=New York Times
date=May 30, 1986
page=Section A, Page 11, Column 1

External links

* [http://usna.com/News_Pubs/Publications/Shipmate/2003/03/Spring2003BOTBios/Trost.htm Biography of Trost from "Shipmate" (Spring 2003 issue)] , the magazine of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation.