Terry McCreary
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| Born | March 20, 1952 (age 65) |
| Occupation | American admiral |
Admiral Terry L. "T" McCreary (born March 20, 1952) is a retired one-star admiral in the United States Navy and served as the Chief of Naval Information (CHINFO) reporting to the Secretary of the Navy. In this capacity, he oversaw all aspects of the Navy's global public affairs program. Prior to that, McCreary served as Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His naval career included leadership positions in a variety of naval and joint assignments. McCreary retired from the Navy in 2006 after 27 years of service, then served as the Strategic Communication Director of the U.S. Special Operations Command and the National Counterterrorism Center.
McCreary was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Paul McCreary and Dolores Orcutt Thelen. He traveled from 1968 to 1971 with the International cast of "Up with People" and received his high school diploma while touring in 1970. He graduated from Northern Kentucky University with a B.A. in history in 1978. While serving as a Naval Officer, Admiral McCreary earned a master's degree in Communications from San Diego State University.
McCreary was commissioned as a surface warfare officer in the Pacific Fleet in 1979, where he served as an electrical officer and main propulsion assistant aboard the destroyer USS O'Brien (DD 975). During his sea tour in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean (from 1979 to 1983), he applied for and received re-designation as a public affairs officer (PAO). McCreary spent the first two years of his PAO tour in the Navy Office of Information in Atlanta, handling regional media issues in Florida, Virginia, Alabama, and Mississippi. He then went to Yokosuka, Japan, where he served as the assistant public affairs officer for the commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet.
After completing a master's degree in Mass Communications and Public Relations at San Diego State University in 1986, McCreary headed to Washington, D.C., as the news director for "Navy News This Week," the Navy's half-hour internal TV news show. He returned to the waterfront in 1989 as the public affairs officer (PAO) aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). McCreary served on the battleship during Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf, and remained on board until it was decommissioned in March 1992.
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