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Vice Admiral James Doyle, Jr., 1946-1980
As a junior officer he served aboard the cruiser Chicago and destroyer John W. Thomason, minesweeper Bulwark and commanded minecraft Ruff and Redstart. After a tour with JAG, he served as Executive Officer of destroyer leader John S. McCain and Commanding Officer of destroyer John R. Craig. After training in nuclear power, he was executive officer of cruiser Newport News and Commanding Officer of nuclear cruiser Bainbridge, for which he earned two Legion of Merit Medals and the Bronze Star Medal. . As a flag officer, Admiral Doyle was Chief, International Negotiations Division, Joint Chiefs of Staff, involved in SALT 1 and Incidents at Sea negotiations with the Soviet Union, and represented the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the U. S. Delegation to the Law of the Sea Conference. He then commanded Cruiser-Destroyer Group TWELVE and deployed to the Sixth Fleet as Commander Attack Carrier Striking Group TWO embarked in USS Forrestal (CV 59). His last sea assignment was Commander Third Fleet from 1974 to 1975. From 1975 to 1980, he was Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Surface Warfare, OP-03, with responsibility for the Navy’s shipbuilding and surface warfare programs, including surface warfare education and training. Specifically, he sponsored the development, construction and introduction of the Aegis fleet of cruisers and destroyers (CG-47 class and DDG-51 class) and their associated combat systems. His responsibility also included a number of ongoing surface warfare programs-TOMAHAWK, Vertical Launch System, HARPOON, LAMPS, SQR-19 Towed Array, SQS-23 Sonar, MK-46 Torpedo, AEGIS Weapon System, New Threat Upgrade, STANDARD Missile, CIWS, RAM, NATO SEASPARROW, SLQ-32, Battle Group AAW, and Gas Turbine propulsion. Admiral Doyle was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Medal first in international negotiations and then in surface warfare. After retiring in 1980, he served as Vice Chairman of the Strike and Air Defense Division of the National Defense Industrial Association until 2007. He has been an adviser to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the Naval War College, and the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia. From 1982 to 1989, he taught International Law of the Sea at the National Law Center, George Washington University.
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