CO Kirk Joins De Wert Crew

Kirk was born in Bethesda, Maryland and raised in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He is a 1990 graduate from the United States Naval Academy. His service afloat includes tours aboard USS Fife (DD 991), USS The Sullivans (DDG 68), USS Hue City (CG 66), and USS John S. McCain (DDG 56).

Ashore, he has served as a gas turbine examiner for the Propulsion Examining Board, Executive Assistant to the Chief of Legislative Affairs, and most recently completed a tour as an analyst and action officer in the Joint Staff.

Cmdr. Bill Campbell

Campbell led De Wert through a highly-successful Ship's Restricted Availability period and Baltic Operations 2007, a combined maritime and land exercise that took place in the Baltic Sea, during which De Wert promoted mutual understanding and interoperability among forces and personnel of participating nations, including Denmark, Germany, Russia, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Latvia, France, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

On Dec. 21, 2007, De Wert completed its most recent deployment in support of counter narco-terrorism operations. Under Campbell's unwavering leadership, De Wert played a key role in stemming the flow of illegal drugs into the United States, seizing more than 16,000 pounds of cocaine with an import value of more than $220 million.

Campbell's next assignment is to the Joint Staff in Washington, DC.