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Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).== Rear Admiral Paul Becker ==
Paul Becker | |
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| File:Admiral Paul Becker 2012.jpg Rear Admiral Paul Becker, USN Director for Intelligence, U.S. Pacific Command | |
| Born | August 22, 1961[1] |
| Allegiance |  United States of America |
| Service/ |  United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1983 - present |
| Rank | File:US-O07 insignia.svg Admiral |
| Commands held | U.S. Pacific Command International Security Force Afghanistan - International Security Force Afghanistan U.S. Central Command - U.S. Central Command |
| Battles/wars | Operation Enduring Freedom Operation Iraqi Freedom |
Rear Adm. Becker has served as Director for Intelligence for the United States Pacific Command in Hawaii since July 2011. Previous flag assignments include vice director of Intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C., and director of Intelligence for the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Born in New York City in 1961, he is a graduate of Long Island’s Deer Park High School and commissioned an intelligence officer upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1983. Significant afloat assignments include intelligence officer with Attack Squadron 35 (A6E/Intruder) aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68), temporary assignment aboard battleship, USS Iowa (BB 61), intelligence operations officer for the United States 6th Fleet aboard cruiser, USS Belknap (CG 26) and N2 with Carrier Strike Group 7 aboard USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).
Shore assignments include: analyst at the Office of Naval Intelligence’s Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot; flag aide to the director of Naval Intelligence; intelligence branch/assignments officer at the Bureau of Personnel; Federal Executive Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; the American Embassy in Paris as the assistant U.S. Naval Attaché; temporary assignment with the American Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia as the assistant Defense Attaché (during Operation Allied Force), and the director of Operations at the Joint Intelligence Center Pacific, Hawaii.
In addition to service in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010, his duty with U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) since 9/11 includes: commanding officer of CENTCOM’s Joint Intelligence Center in Tampa, Fla., from 2007 to 2009; director of Intelligence (N2) for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command in Bahrain from 2005 to 2007; intelligence watch officer in the Combined Air Operations Center at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia in 2003 during early Iraqi Freedom operations; and, N2 for the U.S. Navy’s Task Force 50 in the Northern Arabian Sea from 2001 to 2002 during early Enduring Freedom operations.
Becker holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (2001), and diplomas from the Defense Language Institute (1991), the Naval Command and Staff College (1993), and Armed Forces Staff College (1996).
Becker is the recipient of the National Military Intelligence Association’s Rufus Taylor Award for Leadership, the U.S. Army’s Knowlton Award for Military Intelligence and the Office of Naval Intelligence’s Edwin Layton Award for Leadership. He has authored several articles on military intelligence and leadership that have been published in Proceedings, Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly, Vanguard and Jewish War Veterans magazines.