Capt. Miguel Dieguez relieved Capt. Jorge R. Cuadros as commanding officer Naval Services Engineering Techniques Command (NAVFAC) Southeast throughout a change of command ceremony held onboard Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Florida, Might 13.
Dieguez is the ninth commanding officer because the command was established in 2006 and is twin hatted because the Navy Area Southeast Regional Engineer.
A change of command exemplifies the formal passing of command, navy rules and custom. The ceremony supplies an opportunity to rejoice previous accomplishments and look towards the longer term.
“An orderly, unbroken chain of command is a elementary element of our Navy historical past and is vital to our continued success,” stated visitor speaker Rear Adm. Wesley McCall, commander, Navy Area Southeast.
McCall counseled Cuadros and all the NAVFAC Southeast group for his or her assist to the area over the previous two years stating that actually every little thing the area does within the shore enterprise depends on NAVFAC in some method.
“Your accomplishments over the previous two years is simply too lengthy to delve into utterly,” claimed McCall.
NAVFAC Southeast accomplished vital army building (MILCON) packages all through the southeast, equivalent to the continuing building of the $600+ million Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay recapitalization undertaking and the reconfiguration of the Aviation College’s Command major college home aboard NAS Pensacola after the horrific terrorist assault in 2019. The group displayed revolutionary and cost-effective environmental administration methods which introduced NAS Pensacola to win the 2022 Secretary of Protection Environmental Award for Pure Sources Conservation and NAS Key West profitable the 2022 Secretary of the Navy Pure Sources Conservation for a small set up.
By means of the command’s contingency response groups, they mobilized and maintained set up operations all through 5 hurricane occasions, tornadoes, a winter freeze and flooding in Texas. The area merely couldn’t do their jobs with out NAVFAC claimed McCall.
Rear Adm. Lore Aguayo, commander, NAVFAC Atlantic, and U.S. Fleet Forces Civil Engineer, was the presiding officer for the ceremony and introduced Cuadros with a Legion of Benefit medal for distinctive service.
“It’s a particular privilege and my private honor to take part in right this moment’s change of command ceremony, a practice that’s as previous as naval service itself,” stated Aguayo. “A treasured a part of our heritage the place the whole authority, duty, and accountability of command might be handed from Capt. Cuadros to Capt. Dieguez.”
The function of the presiding officer is to publicly acknowledge two exceptionally proficient naval officers and to spotlight the accomplishments of NAVFAC Southeast.
“Capt. Jorge Cuadros is an outstanding chief, and energetic and honorable officer and function mannequin in each sense,” stated Aguayo. “He’s all the time utterly centered on his individuals and the success of the group. He has large integrity and has had a really profitable tour in command.”
Below the management of Cuadros, NAVFAC Southeast maintained NAVFAC’s finest total MILCON program, adopted “Early Contractor Involvement” main NAVFAC Southeast to forge stronger partnerships with the development business and he guided the event of Cybersecurity Work Induction Course of to incorporate cybersecurity necessities into MILCONs and particular initiatives.
“As we mirror on the extraordinary achievements of the previous two years, we should additionally maintain a watch to the longer term,” stated Aguayo. “Capt. Miguel Dieguez is, for sure, the fitting officer to construct upon NAVFAC Southeast’s accomplishments and nice status.”
Cuadros thanked a number of individuals by title for his or her assist to the command throughout his tenure from July 2020 to Might 2022. He additionally talked about how humbled he was for the non-public recognition in receiving the Legion of Benefit medal and stated that he accepted the award on behalf of the command whose women and men, who over the course of the final two years, overcame any problem to ship the services and products that the area supported commanders wanted to satisfy their missions.
“NAVFAC Southeast and the area’s character mirror the Southern values,” stated Cuadros. “I’m most enthusiastic about NAVFAC’s future. Shifting ahead, we’ll additional align to the Fleet by managing the supply of initiatives, services and products by the lens of power growth, power era and power employment of key warfighting capabilities.”
Cuadros has led NAVFAC Southeast since July 2020. His subsequent task might be chief of employees at NAVFAC Headquarters.
As Dieguez takes command of NAVFAC Southeast, he thanked Rear Adm. Aguayo and Rear Adm. McCall for the extraordinary alternative.
“My earlier excursions within the Southeast have all the time been particular for me due to the superb individuals, the variety of missions throughout the Area, and naturally, that is the place my daughter was born,” stated Dieguez. “I recognize your belief and confidence in my capacity to guide this group. It’s an honor and privilege to serve with you.”
Dieguez was commissioned as an Ensign within the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps (CEC) after incomes a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1997 from the U.S. Naval Academy. He holds a Grasp of Enterprise Administration from the Robert H. Smith College of Enterprise on the College of Maryland and has accomplished Joint Skilled Army Training Part I by the Naval Struggle School.
Dieguez has served in varied ascending positions of duty within the CEC together with assistant firm commander and materials liaison officer, operations officer, teacher, building supervisor, flag aide, manufacturing management officer, assistant regional engineer, amenities funding and actual property administration department head, and commanding officer Naval Cellular Development Battalion ONE THIRTY THREE. He has 5 deployments.
Dieguez is a Seabee Fight Warfare Officer, a registered Skilled Engineer within the Commonwealth of Virginia, an Acquisition Skilled Member, and an authorized Venture Administration Skilled. His most up-to-date task was as Public Works Officer for Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia.
