KITTY HAWK changed home ports from San Diego to Bremerton, WA, in March 1976 where the ship underwent a one-year overhaul, during which LT Wilson managed the ship's force rehabilitation of all intelligence division working and berthing spaces.įrom June 1977 – June 1979 then LT Wilson served at U.S. He served as the Division Officer for the ship's Intelligence Division and as the Multi-Sensor Interpretation (MSI) Officer in the ship's Integrated Operational Intelligence Center (IOIC) during a six-month deployment to the western Pacific Ocean in 1975. During this tour of duty, Wilson was promoted to Lieutenant, augmented into the regular Navy, and changed his designator from reserve unrestricted line (1105) to special duty intelligence (1630).įollowing graduation from the Defense Intelligence College in May 1975 LT Wilson transferred to USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) home-ported in San Diego, CA. A People's Republic of China (PRC) air and missile analyst, he participated in national level current and crisis analyses of the Sino-Soviet border mobilizations, Chinese strategic bomber and missile development and deployment, and the 1974 Paracel Island conflict between the PRC and Vietnam. In May 1971 LTJG Wilson was transferred to the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC, serving virtually his entire tour there as an intelligence analyst in the current intelligence division (DI) supporting The Joint Staff. In March, 1970 he was promoted to Lieutenant (Junior Grade), USNR. Wilson served for two years as an Indications and Warning center watch officer, intelligence analyst, and command briefer at USTDC, a joint military command charged with planning for the defense of Taiwan. He was commissioned an Ensign, USNR, on 14 March 1969 and was assigned to the Intelligence Division (J2) of the United States Taiwan Defense Command (USTDC) in Taipei, Taiwan in April 1969. Wilson commenced active naval service on 26 October 1968 when he entered Navy Officer Candidate School at Newport, RI. in management and human relations from Webster University. In 1978, while stationed in Keflavik, Iceland, he earned an M.A. Other Military training included Communications Officer Ashore Course at Newport, RI in 1969 Targeting and mission planning at Nuclear Weapons Training Group Atlantic, in Norfolk, VA in 1980 and Flag and General Officer CAPSTONE Training in 1995. Wilson was a distinguished graduate of the Defense Intelligence College in 1975, and was a member of the Defense Intelligence College class that participated in the pilot program leading to the college being able to grant a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence Degree. He entered Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI, in October 1968 and was commissioned an Ensign, U.S. Wilson entered Ohio State University in 1964, and in 1968 graduated with a Bachelor of Science in agriculture with concentrations in agricultural economics and rural sociology. He is a member of the Groveport Madison High School Alumni Hall of Fame. He graduated from Groveport Madison High School in 1964, where he was active in sports, band, and other school activities as well as the Boy Scouts of America and the Groveport Methodist Church. As a youth he spent much time working on family farms, acquiring a lifelong interest in agriculture and rural life in America. Thomas Ray Wilson was born on 4 March 1946 in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in the small community of Groveport, Ohio. Vice Admiral Wilson and his wife, Ann, have three sons: Jeffrey, Gregory, and Matthew. (ATK): President of ATK Missile Systems, Corporate Senior Vice President and President of ATK Precision Systems Group, and ATK Senior Vice President for Tidewater Operations, retiring from ATK in 2009. Following retirement from the Navy in 2002, he served in several senior executive roles for Alliant Techsystems, Inc. Other flag rank assignments included Director of Intelligence (J2), The Joint Staff Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Military Support, Central Intelligence Agency Vice Director of Intelligence, The Joint Staff and Director of Intelligence, United States Atlantic Command. Wilson, USN was the 13th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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