Timothy J. Keating

Timothy J. Keating ( born November 5, 1945 in Dayton, Ohio ) is a former admiral of the U.S. Navy and was from November 2004 to March 2007 Commander of United States Northern Command and from March 2007 to October 2009 Commander of United States Pacific Command.

Military career

Keating graduated in 1971 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. After he had finished his pilot training in 1973, he was employed in the Mediterranean on the USS Nimitz. After this tour, he was transferred to the Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore (California ) and then served in the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk Carrier Air Wing 15 as the rod landing signal officer ( Landing Signal Officer ( LSO) ). From May 1982 to July 1984 served as Keating administration, operations and maintenance officer aboard the USS Enterprise. After that, he was employed as a staff employee and the flag lieutenant commander of the U.S. Pacific Command.

In May 1987, Keating was commander of a squadron of Carrier Air Wing 8 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. After this first command, he was the Naval Military Personnel Command in Washington, DC assumed and was there as a supervisor of junior officer aviator Department ( Aviation Junior Officer Assignments Branch) operates. When he was set up in January 1991 as Deputy Commander Air Group of Carrier Air Wing 17 aboard the USS Saratoga, he took part in hostilities, who supported the Operation Desert Storm, in part.

The first rod using Admiral Keating was on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in the group for Strategic Studies in Newport (Rhode Iceland ). After this task, he provided service in the Joint Task Force Southwest Asia in Riyadh ( Saudi Arabia) as Deputy CAG of Carrier Air Wing 9 aboard the USS Nimitz and later, in 1993, as CAG of Carrier Air Wing 9 was In November 1994, Keating then added to the NAS Fallon, Nevada, where he commanded the Naval Strike Warfare Center. A year later, in September 1995, Keating returned to the Naval Military Command and took over the directorship of the Aviation Officer Distribution Division. From August 1996 until June 1998, he then served as deputy director for operations in the Joint Staff.

In June 1998 he took command of the carrier battle group 5, whose home port of Yokosuka (Japan) is. In September 2000, Keating was appointed to the office of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO ) and there appointed as Deputy CNO for planning, strategy and operations. In February 2002 he took over command of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Command ( Navy component of U.S. Central Command) and the U.S. Fifth Fleet Command in Manama ( Bahrain). From October 2003 to October 2004 Keating worked as director of the Joint Staff. On 5 November 2004, he finally took over command of NORAD and the United States Northern Command ( NORTHCOM ).

In February 2007, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates nominated Keating as the new commander of U.S. Pacific Command, and Lieutenant General Victor E. Renuart announced, Jr. as successor Keating in the U.S. Northern Command. The agreed the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. Senate on March 19. Therefore he gave on 23 March 2007, the command to General Renuart and broke then to Camp HM Smith, Hawaii, on. Three days later, on March 26, he took over the headquarters in Hawaii, the command of the U.S. Pacific Command of Lieutenant General Daniel P. Leaf.

On 19 October 2009 Keating gave the command of the PACOM finally to Admiral Robert F. Willard and retired.

Keating has achieved over 5000 flight hours. He is the only NORAD commander, who came as the Air Force by another strike force.

Awards

Selection of decorations, sorted on the basis of the Order of Precedence of Military Awards:

• Defense Distinguished Service Medal (4 × )
• Navy Distinguished Service Medal (2 × )
• Legion of Merit (4 × )
• Defense Meritorious Service Medal
• Meritorious Service Medal (2 × )
• Air Medal (3 × )
• Navy & Marine Corps Commendation Medal (3 × )
• Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal (2 × )
• National Defense Service Medal (3 × )
• Vietnam Service Medal (4 × )
• Southwest Asia Service Medal (4 × )
• Armed Forces Service Medal