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SUBJ/PASSING OF VICE ADMIRAL JOHN WILLIAM COX, USN, RET//
 
RMKS/1.  VADM JOHN WILLIAM COX, FORMER SURGEON GENERAL OF THE NAVY
PASSED AWAY ON 02 NOVEMBER 2002.  ADM COX'S REMARKABLE CAREER
SPANNED FOUR DECADES FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE COLD WAR TO THE
CLOSING YEARS.
 
2.  ADM COX WAS BORN IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ON 31 AUGUST 1928.  HE
WAS APPOINTED LIEUTENANT JUNIOR GRADE IN THE U.S. NAVAL RESERVE ON
12 FEBRUARY 1954 AND SUBSEQUENTLY ADVANCED IN RANK IN THE MEDICAL
CORPS TO THAT OF VICE ADMIRAL ON 19 AUGUST 1980.  HE SERVED WITH
DISTINCTION AS COMMANDING OFFICER OF NAVAL MEDICAL TRAINING
INSTITUTE, NAVAL HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION AND TRAINING, AND NAVAL
REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER IN SAN DIEGO.  IN AUGUST 1980 HE BECAME THE
TWENTY-EIGHTH SURGEON GENERAL OF THE NAVY AND SERVED IN THAT
POSITION UNIT 1983.  ADM COX, THROUGHOUT HIS LONG AND DISTINGUISHED
CAREER, HAS PROMOTED NAVAL MEDICINE BY ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT IN
NUMEROUS ACADEMIC FACULTY APPOINTMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS.
 
3.  HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, ANN COX AND SON, WILLIAM COX.
 
4.  RELEASED BY VADM P. A. TRACEY, DIRECTOR, NAVY STAFF.//
 
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