Aviation relevance - she commanded Carrier Strike Groups 9 and 15 and served aboard the USS George Washington..
https://news.usni.org/2023/07/21/bre...-indo-pacom-co
The Biden administration nominated the current Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti to be the next Chief of Naval Operations…
If confirmed by the Senate, Franchetti will serve as the 33rd Chief of Naval Operation
, succeeding current CNO Adm. Mike Gilday, who is set to retire.“Lisa Franchetti will bring 38 years of dedicated service to our nation as a commissioned officer, including in her current role of Vice Chief of Naval Operations,” reads a statement from the White House.
“Throughout her career, Adm. Franchetti has demonstrated extensive expertise in both the operational and policy arenas. She is the second woman ever to achieve the rank of four-star admiral in the United States Navy, and when confirmed, she will again make history as the first woman to serve as the Chief of Naval Operations and on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.”…
Franchetti is a career surface warfare officer who came up on destroyers. She has served as the VCNO since last year. Franchetti was recently head of the J5 Strategic Plans and Policy on the Joint Staff. She was first commissioned into the Navy in 1985 through the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at Northwestern University, according to her biography.
She was head of the Navy’s warfighting development office on the chief of naval operations staff, led U.S. 6th Fleet in Europe and Africa, commanded U.S. Naval Forces Korea, Carrier Strike Groups 9 and 15, Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 21 and guided-missile destroyer USS
Ross (DDG-71).
At sea, Franchetti has served aboard USS
Shenandoah (AD-44), USS
Monongahela (AO-178), USS
Moosbrugger (DD-980), USS
Stout (DD-55) and the George Washington Carrier Strike Group.