July Membership Meeting Guest Speaker Rear Admiral Richard D. Berkey

       
  Rear Adm. Berkey is a native of   Windber, Pa., and entered the Navy through the Naval Reserve Officers   Training Corps program at Pennsylvania State University where he received a   Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 and later qualified as   a surface warfare officer on board USS Farragut (DDG 37).
 
  He became an engineering duty officer and attended Naval Postgraduate School   where he received a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a   Mechanical Engineer degree in 1989. He graduated with distinction and was the   recipient of the Naval Sea Systems Command award for Excellence in Naval   Engineering and the Navy League award for highest academic achievement.
 
  His engineering duty tours include service as a surface ship superintendent   and nuclear ship superintendent at Norfolk Naval Shipyard; main propulsion   assistant in USS Saratoga (CV 60); fleet maintenance budget officer on   the staff of the commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; assistant operations officer   for surface ship and submarine fleet maintenance at the Pearl Harbor Naval   Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility; chief engineer in USS George   Washington (CVN 73); ship engineer officer in the Maintenance Directorate   on the staff of Commander, Naval Air Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet;   ship/submarine branch head in the Fleet Readiness Division on the staff of   the Chief of Naval Operations; operations officer at Portsmouth Naval   Shipyard; assistant deputy commander for industrial operations at Naval Sea   Systems Command; 102nd shipyard commander at Norfolk Naval Shipyard; and   deputy chief of staff for Fleet Maintenance, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
 
  His personal decorations include three Legion of Merits, six Meritorious   Service Medals, two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals and the Navy   and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. He is a member of the American Society of   Naval Engineers and is a registered professional engineer in the state of   California.