Fred Moosally
Fred P. Moosally was captain of the battleship USS Iowa when the center gun of one of the ship’s main gun turrets exploded on April 19, 1989, killing 47 crewmen. He testified that the Navy had assigned personnel of inferior quality to the Iowa. The investigation found that Iowa had been operating with severe deficiencies in safety and training procedures, for which he was disciplined. He retired from the Navy soon after in May 1990. In 1999 he began working for Lockheed Martin. In 2002 he was appointed president of the company’s MS2 division. In 2010 he was hired as President and Chief Executive Officer of Fincantieri Marine Group.
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Fred P. Moosally was captain of the battleship USS Iowa when the center gun of one of the ship’s main gun turrets exploded on April 19, 1989, killing 47 crewmen. He testified that the Navy had assigned personnel of inferior quality to the Iowa. The investigation found that Iowa had been operating with severe deficiencies in safety and training procedures, for which he was disciplined. He retired from the Navy soon after in May 1990. In 1999 he began working for Lockheed Martin. In 2002 he was appointed president of the company’s MS2 division. In 2010 he was hired as President and Chief Executive Officer of Fincantieri Marine Group. He was succeeded by Orlando Carvahlo, former General Manager and Vice President of the Lockheed Martin MS2 Moorestown, New Jersey site. His classmates nicknamed him ‘Moose’ because of his physical presence and his’slap-on-the-back’ personality. He played American football for the U.S. Naval Academy and was selected to play in the Cotton Bowl Classic with Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach. His father was an insurance salesman and the family attended the local Syriac Maronite Church. He is one of six children in a family of three sons and three daughters. He graduated high school in 1962 and was recruited by Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh to play football. He instead decided to attend the United States Naval Academy after speaking with the academy’s football coach, Bill Elias.
In 1966 he graduated in 1966 with a class ranking of 812 out of 868. He spent some time off the coast of Vietnam on the destroyer USS Kenneth D. Bailey. He attended destroyer department head school at Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island. In 1971 he returned to the Naval Academy, where he worked in the recruitment and candidate guidance office. He also worked with the varsity football team. After turning 30 years old, he was assigned to the frigate USS Bronstein. He worked for Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf and the Navy’s Bureau of Naval Personnel. In 1985 he began a tour of tours on the staff of the top admirals, mainly because he thought he did well because he was well-connected with many of the Navy’s top admiral. After the Bronstein Moosily was assigned. to Washington, D.C. He later was promoted to chief of the Naval Operations office and was assigned as a surface-warfare program coordinator. In 1988 he became a commander of the destroyerUSS Kidda. After the destroyer was decommissioned he was subsequently assigned as the destroyer’s executive officer. In 1989 he was promoted. to commander of the destroyer USS Mahan. He then became the chief of Naval Operations. In 2000 he was transferred to work for the Department of Defense’s Office of Personnel Management. In 2001 he became the head of the Office of the CNO. In 2003 he was named president of Lockheed Martin’s MS2 division, which he led from 1999 to 2010.
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