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TO NAVADMIN
 
UNCLAS
NAVADMIN 195/02
 
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SUBJ/PASSING OF ADMIRAL ROBERT LYMAN JOHN LONG, USN, RET//
 
RMKS/1.  ADM ROBERT LYMAN JOHN LONG, FORMER VICE CHIEF OF NAVAL
OPERATIONS AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF, PACIFIC, PASSED AWAY 28 JUNE
2002.  ADM LONG'S REMARKABLE CAREER SPANNED FOUR DECADES FROM THE
CLOSING YEARS OF WWII TO THE CLOSING YEARS OF THE COLD WAR.
 
2.  ADM LONG WAS BORN IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ON 29 MAY 1920.
AFTER GRADUATING FROM THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY, CLASS OF
1944, HE SERVED WITH DISTINCTION IN THE PACIFIC THEATER ONBOARD USS
COLORADO (BB 45) EARNING THE BRONZE STAR WITH COMBAT "V" FOR ACTIONS
AGAINST JAPANESE FORCES.  AFTER THE WAR, ADM LONG EMBARKED UPON A
STORIED CAREER IN THE SUBMARINE SERVICE WHERE HE ULTIMATELY
COMMANDED USS PATRICK HENRY (GOLD) (SSBN 599), USS CASIMIR PULASKI
(BLUE) (SSBN 633), SERVICE GROUP THREE, AND SUBMARINE FORCE
ATLANTIC. THROUGH HIS LONG AND DISTINGUISHED CAREER ADM LONG
CHAMPIONED THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANY OF THE SYSTEMS WHICH HAVE MADE
OUR NAVY THE FINEST IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.  AFTER RETIRING AS
COMMANDER IN CHIEF, PACIFIC IN 1983, ADM LONG CONTINUED HIS
EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE TO COUNTRY BY ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT WITH THE
SUBMARINE FORCE AND THE NAVAL ACADEMY.
 
3.  HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE SARA AND HIS SONS CHARLES, WILLIAM
AND ROBERT.
 
4.  A FULL HONORS FUNERAL IS SCHEDULED FOR 1000, 11 JULY 2002, AT
THE USNA CHAPEL FOLLOWED BY BURIAL IN THE USNA CEMETERY.
 
5.  RELEASED BY VADM P. A. TRACEY, DIRECTOR, NAVY STAFF.//
 
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