page_title: Alma M. Grocki
section_title: Civilian career and personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Alma M. Grocki / Civilian career and personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Engineering Duty Officer
context_page_description: Alma M. Grocki is a retired United States Navy rear admiral. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1981, she served in a succession of warship and submarine maintenance postings before transferring to the United States Navy Reserve in 1988. Grocki commanded various U.S. Navy facilities, shipyards and programs before becoming director of fleet maintenance for the United States Pacific Fleet and deputy commander of Naval Sea Systems Command.
  Grocki retired in October 2016, at which point she was the senior engineering duty officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. She played a key role in the creation of insignia for EDO role, which was authorized for wear in January 2018. In her civilian career she has worked for CACI Dynamic Systems and also serves voluntarily as a blue and gold officer for the Naval Academy.
context_section_description: Grocki retired in October 2016, at which point she was the senior EDO in the Navy Reserve. She played a key role in the creation of the breast insignia for the EDO role which was authorised for wear in January 2018.
  During her civilian career she has worked for CACI Dynamic Systems to provide shipyard training, audits of NAVSEA dry docks and in the provision of fleet maintenance information technology programs. She is a Blue and Gold Officer (BGO) (volunteer admissions counselor) for the United States Naval Academy and co-ordinates the academy's BGO operations in the Western Pacific, including applicants from high schools and within the Fleet and Marine Corps. She also worked on the U.S. Navy's commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 50th Commemoration of the Vietnam War, and Veterans Day 2017.  
  Alma married Russ Grocki in 1992. The couple had been in the same company at the U.S. Naval Academy and were friends, but did not date, and after graduation, did not meet again until 1991. Russ was a nuclear submarine officer and reconnected with Alma when stationed at Vallejo in California. He was the Commanding Officer of USS Cavalla (SSN 684). They have two sons, Dan and Nick. Russ had to return to sea as Executive Officer of the missile ballistic submarine USS Alaska (SSN 732) for a six month deployment three weeks after the birth of Nick, so Alma played daily videos of Russ so that Nick would become familiar with his dad's face and voice. Alma lives in Hawaii with her husband, who retired in 2011. Dan and Nick followed in their parents' footsteps, with Dan graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2016 and reporting aboard his submarine, USS Connecticut (SSN 21), and Nick graduating in 2018 from the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute and reporting as a Navy engineer to Naval Reactors.
caption: EDO breast insignia
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