Back هاري بي. هاريس جونيور Arabic Harry B. Harris German הארי האריס HE Harry B. Harris Jr. ID ハリー・B・ハリス・ジュニア Japanese 해리 해리스 Korean Harry Harris NB Харрис, Гарри Бинкли Russian Harry B. Harris Jr. Vietnamese 哈里·B·哈里斯 Chinese
Harry Binkley Harris Jr.[1] (born August 4, 1956)[2] is a retired Japanese-born American diplomat and retired U.S. Navy officer. He was the first American of Japanese descent to lead US Pacific Command and was the highest-ranking American of Japanese descent in U.S. Navy history during his time as commander.[3][4][5][6]
Born in Japan, he is also the first 4-star admiral to have participated in the Navy Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (NJROTC)[7] and the first officer from the U.S. Navy's P-3 Orion maritime patrol aviation community to achieve 4-star rank. While a vice admiral, he served as the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[8] Harris was Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii from 2013 to 2015.[9] He took command of USPACOM on May 27, 2015, and retired from Naval service on June 1, 2018.[3][10]
Harris is a 1978 graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was the U.S. Navy's "Old Goat" – the longest-serving Naval Academy graduate still on active duty – from January 2017 until April 2018, when he passed the title on to his classmate, Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, in a private ceremony at the Pentagon.[11] He was also the Navy's 15th "Gray Owl" – the Naval Flight Officer on active duty who has held this designation the longest period. Harris passed the Gray Owl to Vice Admiral Herman A. Shelanski at the National Naval Aviation Museum's 2018 Naval Aviation Symposium.[12] Governor Rick Perry designated him as an admiral in the Texas Navy on July 18, 2006.[13] He was also designated as a "Colonel Aide de Camp" for the state of Tennessee by Governor Phil Bredesen on August 8, 2007 and a "Kentucky Colonel" by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear on March 3, 2021.
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- ^ "NOMINATIONS BEFORE THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE, SEC- OND SESSION, 113TH CONGRESS" (PDF). Congress.gov. 2 December 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Command Biography". U.S. Pacific Command. Archived from the original on 16 June 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- ^ Steele, Jeanette (July 12, 2014). "In Pacific, 1st Asian-American fleet leader". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
- ^ Spitzer, Kirk (25 May 2015). "The New Head of the U.S. Pacific Command Talks to TIME About the Pivot to Asia and His Asian Roots". Time. Time. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ^ "Ambassador Harry Harris". NDIA. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ^ Miller, Michael F. (19 April 2017). "From Four Bars to Four Stars: First NJROTC Cadet to Reach Full Admiral Speaks to Navy's Newest Sailors". U.S. Navy. Naval Service Training Command Public Affairs. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
- ^ "U.S. Navy Official Web Site". U.S. Department of the Navy.
- ^ McAvoy, Audrey (October 16, 2013). "New commander takes over U.S. Pacific Fleet". Honolulu Star Advertiser. Archived from the original on December 22, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
- ^ Carter, Ash. "U.S. Pacific Command Change of Command". U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
- ^ Garamone, Jim (April 11, 2018). "Pacom's Harris Passes 'Old Goat' Award to Southcom's Tidd". U.S. Department of Defense. DOD News. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Museum Foundation to Host Naval Aviation Symposium". 25 April 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Texas Navy" (PDF).
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