Executive Officer

Paul Velazquez

Commander, United States Navy

A native of Los Angeles, California, CDR Paul Velazquez is a 2005
graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and a 2012
graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School.

His sea duty assignments include Division Officer tours as
Electrical Officer, Ordnance Officer, and Auxiliaries Officer aboard USS
CURTS (FFG 38), and Department Head tours as Combat Systems
Officer in USS VANDEGRIFT (FFG 48) and Training and Readiness
Officer (N7) for Commander, Amphibious Squadron FIVE. CDR
Velazquez completed his Executive Officer (Special Mission) tour as
Damage Control Assistant aboard USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
(CVN 69).

Ashore, CDR Velazquez has served as Flag Aide/Protocol Officer to
Commander, US Naval Forces Korea and completed a Master’s Degree in
National Security Affairs (Middle East/Sub-Saharan Africa) at the Naval
Postgraduate School. CDR Velazquez has also served as Resource
Sponsor for amphibious ships at OPNAV N95, Special Assistant to the
Under Secretary of the Navy, and as Speechwriter to three Secretaries of
the Navy. CDR Velazquez was most recently Wargaming Branch Chief
at U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany.