Vice Admiral Scott Grey relieved Rear Admiral John V. Menoni, who had served as performing commander of Navy Installations Command since July 2023. Menoni will take over management of OPNAV N80 Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution.
Chief of Naval Operations Lisa Franchetti served because the visitor speaker for the ceremony. Throughout her remarks, Franchetti counseled Menoni for his accomplishments in his brief time as performing commander of Navy Installations Command and lauded CNIC’s significance to the Navy.
“CNIC is the important hyperlink to every thing we do, each at house and abroad,” mentioned Franchetti. “Each ship you reload and each plane you refuel is one other payload delivered on behalf of the Navy. And on the identical time, when our deployed forces head over the horizon, CNIC offers the help wanted to deal with our Sailors and their households.”
Menoni mentioned his time at CNIC and his optimism for the command’s future course, underneath the management of Grey.
“Though I solely served at CNIC for a short while, not a day glided by that I didn’t witness the staff’s dedication to the warfighters and their households,” mentioned Menoni. “There’s loads of work to do in figuring out what it means to be the shore Sort Commander (TYCOM). I do know that CNIC will get after it with an efficient, devoted and inspirational chief with the proper imaginative and prescient for the shore on the helm. That chief is Vice Adm. Grey.”
Throughout his remarks, Grey introduced that his main aim as Commander, Navy Installations Command will probably be revitalizing the shore.
“As we put together for battle with a significant peer competitor, the shore isn’t within the situation we want it to be,” mentioned Grey. “During the last a number of many years, we ‘took threat within the shore’ and we are actually experiencing accelerating degradation at a time when a strong basis is important to our capacity to generate and maintain fight energy and entice and retain the expertise we have to prevail.”
Grey outlined his preliminary priorities resembling growing shore TYCOM governance; growing a long-term technique to speed up shore restoration; eliminating extra infrastructure; divesting legacy capabilities which can be now not important; enhancing upkeep; and fostering a tradition of modern considering amongst personnel.
“We now have a chance to bend the curve and form the shore to higher meet the wants of he Navy at a important juncture in our historical past,” mentioned Grey.
Grey is a local of Virginia Seashore, a 1988 graduate of the College of South Florida and was commissioned in June 1989 via the Aviation Officer Candidate Program. He earned his designation as an E-2C naval flight officer and has logged greater than 500 carrier-arrested landings and a couple of,800 flight hours in tactical plane. His earlier shore assignments embrace commanding officer, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; govt assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Vitality, Installations and Setting; Commander, Navy Area Europe, Africa, Central; and Commander, Navy Area Mid-Atlantic.
Commander, Navy Installations Command is liable for worldwide U.S. Navy shore set up administration, designing and growing built-in options for sustainment and improvement of Navy shore infrastructure in addition to high quality of life packages. CNIC oversees 10 Navy areas, 70 bases, and greater than 43,000 staff who maintain the fleet, allow the fighter and help the household. For extra details about Commander, Navy Installations Command, go to www.cnic.navy.mil.
