About the Series
The SITREP Speaker Series brings the top minds in Navy leadership and gives them a platform to speak directly to the American public via live stream. This is a unique opportunity for Navy leadership to address a national audience, allowing this audience to ask questions about what the Navy is doing to defend our freedom and protect our way of life.
Vice Admiral Kelly Aeschbach will join a long line of prestigious guests, including Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro, U.S. Naval Academy Superintendent VADM Sean Buck, Commander, Naval Safety Command RDML Fredrick Luchtman, and Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command / FIFTH Fleet / Combined Maritime Forces VADM Brad Cooper, Chief of Chaplains of the Navy RDML Gregory Todd, and Chief of Navy Reserve VADM John B. Mustin most recently.
Previous topics have included strengths and threats in the current climate, integrated deterrence, the Navy’s ever-growing capabilities, our relationship with partner nations, safety management, spiritual readiness, and more.
About the Speaker
Vice Adm. Kelly Aeschbach is a 1990 graduate of George Washington University. She received her commission through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and was designated a naval intelligence officer.
Aeschbach’s operational assignments included Patrol Squadron (VP) 6, with deployments to Adak, Alaska, and Okinawa, Japan; Amphibious Squadron One, deploying to the Western Pacific and the Arabian Gulf; and Carrier Strike Group Nine, taking part in Operation Enduring Freedom.
Her ashore assignments were Joint Intelligence Center Pacific, Aiea, Hawaii; Tactical Training Group Pacific, San Diego; Naval Personnel Command, Millington, Tennessee; U.S. Naval Forces Europe, London; U.S. Special Operations Command, Tampa, Florida; a military fellow at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, McLean, Virginia; Office of the Chief of Naval Operations staff, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.; and Naval Information Forces, Suffolk, Virginia.
She commanded Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic, Norfolk Virginia from 2013 to 2015.
Vice Admiral Kelly Aeschbach
Commander, Naval Information Forces
As a flag officer, Aeschbach served as deputy director of Intelligence for U.S. Forces–Afghanistan, director of Intelligence for U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, director of National Maritime Intelligence Integration office and commander, Office of Naval Intelligence.
Aeschbach’s personal awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal and the Navy Achievement Medal.
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