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The chief of naval operations (CNO) is typically the highest-ranking officer on active duty in the U.S. Navy unless the chairman and/or the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are naval officers. [2] The CNO is nominated for appointment by the president, for a four-year term of office, [3] and must be confirmed by the Senate. [3]
The first alumnus to graduate and go on to become a CNO was William S. Benson, who graduated from the Class of 1877. The current CNO, Jonathan Greenert , is also an Academy graduate. Four graduates subsequently became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , three became ambassadors, three were recipients of the Navy Cross , and one was a ...
Franchetti is sworn in as the 33rd chief of naval operations on 2 November 2023. Franchetti's operational assignments have included auxiliaries officer and first division officer in USS Shenandoah (AD-44), navigator and jumboization coordinator in USS Monongahela (AO-178), operations officer in USS Moosbrugger (DD-980), combat systems officer and chief staff officer for Destroyer Squadron ...
CNO cycle, a stellar nuclear fusion reaction; Coconut oil, an edible oil; Computer network operations, the optimization and use of digital telecommunications; CNO Financial Group, an American financial services holding company; CNO (gene), which encodes the protein cappuccino homolog; Clozapine N-oxide, a synthetic ligand which activates a receptor
Boorda was born in South Bend, Indiana, to Jewish parents, Gertrude (Frank) Wallis and Herman Boorda. [3] His family moved to Momence, Illinois, where his father had a dress shop.
Vernon Eugene Clark [1] (born September 7, 1944) is a retired admiral who served as the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) of the United States Navy. He retired on July 22, 2005, making his tenure of five years the second-longest serving CNO behind Arleigh Burke. He currently sits on the board of directors of Raytheon and SRI International.
The CNO cycle (for carbon–nitrogen–oxygen; sometimes called Bethe–Weizsäcker cycle after Hans Albrecht Bethe and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker) is one of the two known sets of fusion reactions by which stars convert hydrogen to helium, the other being the proton–proton chain reaction (p–p cycle), which is more efficient at the Sun's ...
As Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 1974 to 1978, Holloway was a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), and served as CNO during the evacuation of Cyprus; the rescue of the merchant ship SS Mayaguez and its crew, and punitive strike operations against the Cambodian forces involved in its seizure; the evacuation of U.S. nationals from ...