On 11 June 2010, CDR Christopher R. Walsh, USPHS, received his Naval War College diploma from Rear Admiral James P. Wisecup, President of the Naval War College (pictured on left) and Dr. James F. Garofano, Dean of Academic Affairs of the Naval War College (pictured on right).
The Naval War College provides a forum for uniformed leaders of all branches of service to study and reflect on the most challenging political and military issues that our Nation faces. In this, the college provides a unique place where current and future leaders have the opportunity to look beyond their normal structured tasks and think about, develop, and debate the highest professional issues with their colleagues, their counterparts in other services and from other nations as well as with some of the brightest thinkers and academicians available.
CDR Walsh applied and was accepted into the Command and Staff program of the College of Distance Education, the Naval War College’s outreach program. The faculty led evening seminars and CD-ROM correspondence program mirror to a large degree the program of study offered to residents at the College’s Newport campus. CDR Walsh reports, “It was a tremendously informative curriculum and made me think about inter-service operability in ways I had not previously considered. Many of my fellow classmates had never even heard of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. The more we reach out to our sister services and cross pollinate ideas and programs with our respective overall missions, it is a win-win endeavor. I am grateful for the opportunity I had to enroll, and I would recommend the Naval War College curriculum to any Corps career aspiring officer. Just be prepared for a lot of evening and weekend academic studies!”
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