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14 unusual facts about Naval Postgraduate School


Alami Balkhi

According to a Provincial overview prepared by the Naval Postgraduate School's Program for Culture and Conflict Studies he is from the Hazara ethnic group.

Alecia Webb-Edgington

She also went to the 52nd Annual National Security Seminar at the U.S. Army War College and the Executive Leadership Program at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Anwar Khan Auriakhel

According to a Provincial overview prepared by the Naval Postgraduate School's Program for Culture and Conflict Studies he is from the Pashtun ethnic group's Auriakhel tribe.

CP/M

The CP/M name follows a prevailing naming scheme of the time, as in Kildall's PL/M language, and Prime Computer's PL/P (Programming Language for Prime), both suggesting IBM's PL/I; and IBM's CP/CMS operating system, which Kildall had used when working at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Eliezer Shkedi

He continued his career in the airforce until the mid-1990s when he studied for an M.A. in Systems management at the US Naval Postgraduate School.

Hector Tarrazona

In 1970, he took an undergraduate pilot training in the Philippine Air Force Flying School in Fernando Air Base in Lipa, Batangas; and in 1982, he went to Monterey, California, U.S.A. to study International Defense Management at the Naval Postgraduate School and International Defense Management.

Karen Kohanowich

Kohanowich received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Vanderbilt University in 1982, a Master of Science in Air Ocean Science from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1995, and a Master of Science in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University in 2005.

Khalid Maqbool

He is a graduate of the Command and Staff College Quetta, the National Defence College, Rawalpindi and the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, where he attended the Senior International Defense Management Course.

Mauricio Carradini

He has postgraduate studies in defense planning and resource management at the National Defense University; in civil-military relations at the Naval Postgraduate School and in crises and disasters' management at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Michael Colley

He earned a master's degree in Computer Systems from the Naval Postgraduate School.

OpenBTS

RELIEF is a series of disaster response exercises managed by the Naval Postgraduate School in California, USA.

Ran Goren

Goren received a master's degree in business administration, cum laude, from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Slope rating

In 1977, then Lt. Commander Dean Knuth, a graduate student at the Naval Postgraduate School, proposed an improved course rating system that involved numerical rating of ten characteristics for each hole.

Thomas Howard Johnson

Thomas H. Johnson is a research professor at the Naval Postgraduate School's Department of National Security Affairs.


Badrul Khan

He contributed to the development of US virtual education policies organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Naval Postgraduate School, the National Educational Technology Plan by the US Department of Education and the Review of Joint Professional Military Education organized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

C. T. Singleton, Jr.

At the time of his retirement in 1956, Singleton was director of the engineering school at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, the same school he had earlier advocated establishing on the Monterey Peninsula after World War II when he was executive officer at the school.

Earl E. Stone

In June 1925, Stone attended the Naval Postgraduate School and earned his Master of Science degree in Communications engineering.

Fran McKee

After attending the General Line School, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, in September 1957 she was appointed Personnel Officer at Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, Morocco.

Hellenic Naval Academy

Finally, officers ranked Lieutenant Junior Grade and Lieutenant, may be educated abroad (in Europe or in the USA) in schools such as NPS, MIT, the University of Michigan etc., thus becoming further specialized in fields such as electronics, weapon systems, computers, operation research, marine architecture etc.

Jesse A. Wilson, Jr.

He also earned a Master of Science in Operations Research from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA (1991) and a Master of Arts degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in 2001.

John J. Garstka

In addition, he has lectured at Harvard University, Georgetown University, the University of California at Irvine, University of Maryland, the Army War College, the Air War College, the Naval War College, and the Naval Postgraduate School.

Paul D. Stroop

From 1948-1950, Stroop served as Executive Officer at the Navy's General Line School in Monterey, California, then again took up his own studies as a student at the National War College at Washington, D.C., in 1950-1951.

Walter B. LaBerge

He also held several academic appointments, including Senior Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Texas at Austin; visiting professor at the Defense Systems Management College at the Defense Acquisition University in Fort Belvoir, Virginia; and Visiting Professor of Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.