page_title: Alma M. Grocki
section_title: Navy Reserve
hierarchical_section_title: Alma M. Grocki / Navy Reserve
caption_attribution_description: English: 150226-N-IP531-001 YOKOSUKA, Japan (Feb. 26, 2015) Sideboys salute Rear Adm. Alma Grocki, director for fleet maintenance, U.S. Pacific Fleet, as she arrives aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) for a ship visit. George Washington and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, provide a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interests of the U.S. and its allies and partners in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
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 transferred to the US Navy Reserve in 1988. She served as commanding officer of shore maintenance facilities in Portsmouth and at Naval Station Everett and of the Navy Reserve shipyard at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. She also commanded the Navy Reserve Naval Submarine Support Command, Pearl Harbor; Naval Undersea Warfare Command, Keyport, Washington; and Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) 102 at Bremerton, Washington. Grocki was the first national director of the Navy Reserve's SurgeMain shipyard workforce recruitment programme and served as commanding officer of the NAVSEA headquarters unit and as chief of staff for its naval reactors division.
  Grocki later served on active duty as deputy operations officer of the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and director of submarine maintenance for the US Pacific Fleet. She was later recalled to active duty to director of fleet maintenance for the Pacific Fleet and was deputy commander of Naval Sea Systems Command. Grocki was awarded the Legion of Merit three times, the Meritorious Service Medal five times and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal four times in the course of her navy career.
caption: Grocki boarding the USS George Washington in 2015
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