Mary Lee Anderson Speaker Series
The Admiral and Mary Lee Anderson Lecture Series event will be held on 20 April 2006, from 1930 - 2030. This lecture is to be mandatory for the entire Class of 2007 and is tied to the NL302 Leadership course. Compensatory time has been given in the course to offset the time for this event.
The speakers will review the leadership challenges faced by junior officers in the Global War on Terror overseas and their contributions leading to joint operational success.
There will be two speakers at this year’s lecture. The first will be COL Kevin McDonnell, USA, current Commander of 5th Special Forces Group (Ft. Campbell, KY) and Commander of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Arabian Peninsula (CJSOTF-AP) until February 2006. The second speaker will be LCDR Jeffrey W. Eggars, Executive Officer, SEAL Team SEVEN, who most recently completed a seven-month deployment to Iraq as Commander, Naval Special Warfare Task Unit – West. There he was the senior Special Operations officer in the volatile Al Anbar province of western Iraq with the primary mission of combat advising, training, and transferring counter-insurgency capabilities to developing Iraqi Army and Police units.
The Admiral and Mary Lee Anderson Lecture Series is made possible by a generous gift from Mary Lee Anderson to the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation in support of the Leadership Department. Admiral Anderson may be most noted for his leadership as CNO while conducting the naval blockade of Cuba during the Soviet missile crisis in 1962. President Kennedy was so pleased with his handling of the situation, he was later appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to Portugal.
