Christopher Butler:  

Life After graduation from high School, Chris Butler enlisted in the U.S. Navy and attended Naval Academy preparatory school in Newport, Rhode Island. He was commissioned in 1983 upon graduating with Honors from the U.S. Naval Academy with a BS in Systems Engineering. He was selected for the Nuclear Power Program, and attended Nuclear Power School, Nuclear Prototype Training,and Basic Submarine Officer School in Groton, CT. His 1st sea duty was December 1984 - 1988 onboard the Nuclear Powered Submarine USS POGY (SSN 647), where he was assigned as Main Propulsion Assistant, Damage Control Assistant, Assistant Operations Officer and Assistant Weapons Officer. 1988-1990 His 2nd assignment was with Commander Submarine Group Eight, Naples Italy, where he was assigned as the SSBN Plans and Operation Officer, and NATO Staff Watch Officer. In 1990, Commander Butler was selected to join the Navy’s meteorology and oceanography (METOC) community. 1990-1992 For his 1st METOC assignment he deployed globally as Operations Officer/Team Leader of the Mobile Environmental Team, on various warships. In July 1992, He attended the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Ca., earning his MS in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography. He graduated with Distinction in December 1994. 1995-1997 He served as Deputy Chief, Mapping, Charting and Geodesy Office, U.S. European Command, Stuttgart Germany, providing support to NATO and UN operations in the Former Yugoslavia. 1997-1999, he r...Expand for more