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{{Short description|United States admiral}}
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|name= Gary Roughead
|image= US Navy 071108-N-0000X-001 Navy file photo of Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead.jpg
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|caption= Roughead in September 2007
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|birth_date= {{birth date and age|1951|7|15}}
|birth_place= Buffalo, New York, U.S.
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|allegiance= United States
|branch= United States Navy
|serviceyears= 1973–2011
|rank= Admiral
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|commands= Chief of Naval Operations<br/>United States Fleet Forces Command<br/>United States Pacific Fleet<br/>United States Second Fleet<br/>{{USS|Port Royal|CG-73}}<br/>{{USS|Barry|DDG-52}}
|battles= Vietnam War
|awards= Defense Distinguished Service Medal<br/>Navy Distinguished Service Medal (2)<br/>Army Distinguished Service Medal<br/>Defense Superior Service Medal<br/>Legion of Merit (4)
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'''Gary Roughead''' ( "rough head"; born July 15, 1951) is a former United States Navy officer who served as the 29th Chief of Naval Operations from 2007 to 2011. He previously served as Commander, United States Fleet Forces Command from May 17 to September 29, 2007. Prior to that, Roughead served as the 31st Commander, United States Pacific Fleet from 2005 to 2007. In 2011, he retired from the U.S. Navy after 38 years of service.
==Early life and education==
Roughhead was born July 15, 1951, in Buffalo, New York. Roughead graduated from high school at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, in 1969. He is a 1973 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a Surface Warfare Officer.

==Career==
[[File:US Navy 070927-N-3642E-171 Adm. Gary Roughead, commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, testifies before the Committee on Armed Services during his confirmation hearing for appointment to Chief of Naval Operations.jpg|thumb|Roughead during his [[United States Senate Committee on Armed Services|Committee on Armed Forces]] confirmation hearing in the U.S. Senate for appointment to Chief of Naval Operations in September 2007]]
[[File:US Navy 071012-N-4238B-095 Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead speaks with crew members aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20).jpg|thumb|Roughead speaking with crew members aboard [[USNS Comfort|USNS ''Comfort'']] in October 2007]]
[[File:US Navy 080815-N-8273J-253 Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead, left, and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Joe R. Campa Jr. speak with Sailors, Marines and Soldiers.jpg|thumb|Roughead and Master Chief Petty Officer [[Joe R. Campa]] in Afghanistan in August 2008]]
[[File:US Navy 100513-N-8273J-010 Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead speaks at the Heritage Foundation.jpg|thumb|Roughead speaking at [[The Heritage Foundation]] in May 2010]]
Roughead's initial assignment was in the Weapons Department aboard {{USS|Josephus Daniels|CG-27}}. This was followed by duty as executive officer on the patrol gunboats {{USS|Douglas|PGM-100}} and {{USS|Tacoma|PGM-92}}, the former home-ported in Naples, Italy. He was the commissioning chief engineer aboard {{USS|O'Bannon|DD-987}} and executive officer on board {{USS|Spruance|DD-963}}.

Roughead's tours ashore include assignments as flag lieutenant to the Commander, Naval Surface Forces Atlantic in the United States Atlantic Fleet, the Surface Warfare Analyst at the Navy's Office of Program Appraisal, administrative aide to the U.S. Secretary of the Navy, executive assistant to the Commander, Naval Surface Force Pacific, commandant, United States Naval Academy, the Department of the Navy's chief of legislative affairs; and deputy commander, United States Pacific Command.

Roughead was the commissioning commanding officer of the Aegis Combat System destroyer {{USS|Barry|DDG-52}}, and, upon assuming command of the cruiser {{USS|Port Royal|CG-73}}, he became the first naval officer to command both classes of Aegis ships. While he was in command, ''Port Royal'' was awarded a Meritorious Unit Commendation and received the Golden Anchor Award for excellence in retention and crew support programs. He was Commander, Cruiser Destroyer Group Two and the {{USS|George Washington|CVN-73}} Carrier Battle Group, deploying to the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea. His latest assignment afloat was as Commander, United States Second Fleet and Commander, NATO Striking Fleet Atlantic and Commander, Naval Forces North Fleet East in Norfolk, Virginia; he was nominated to head the Fleet Forces Command on March 19, 2007.

On September 2, 2005, Roughead was a keynote speaker at the End of World War II Commemoration aboard the battleship {{USS|Missouri|BB-63}} Memorial on Ford Island in Hawaii.

===Chief of Naval Operations===
On September 29, 2007, Roughead was appointed Chief of Naval Operations. In January 2009, Roughead attended the inaugural parade of Barack Obama in Washington, D.C.

In 2011, Roughead retired from the U.S. Navy after 38 years of service and was succeeded in his post as Chief of Naval Operations by Admiral Jonathan Greenert.

===Post-Navy career===
After retirement, Roughead became a board member of Theranos, a now-defunct privately held health technology company known for its false claims to have devised revolutionary blood tests using very small amounts of blood. He sits on the executive committee of the Maritime Policy and Strategy Research Center (HMS). 

Roughhead is a distinguished fellow at the [[Hoover Institution]], a conservative think tank, and a member of the Board of Managers for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

==Awards and decorations==
{|
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:[[File:Surface Warfare Officer Insignia.png|140px]] Surface Warfare Officer Insignia
:[[File:Joint Chiefs of Staff seal.svg|85px]] Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge
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|[[File:Defense Distinguished Service ribbon.svg|80px]]
|Defense Distinguished Service Medal
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=1|type=award-star|ribbon=Navy Distinguished Service ribbon.svg|width=80}}
|Navy Distinguished Service Medal with one golden award star
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=oak|ribbon=Distinguished Service Medal ribbon.svg|width=80}}
|Army Distinguished Service Medal
|-
|[[File:US Defense Superior Service Medal ribbon.svg|80px]]
|Defense Superior Service Medal
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=3|type=award-star|ribbon=Legion of Merit ribbon.svg|width=80}}
|Legion of Merit with three award stars
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=1|type=award-star|ribbon=Meritorious Service ribbon.svg|width=80}}
|Meritorious Service Medal with one award star
|-
|[[File:Navy and Marine Corps Commendation ribbon.svg|80px]]
|Navy Commendation Medal
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=1|type=award-star|ribbon=Navy and Marine Corps Achievement ribbon.svg|width=80}}
|Navy Achievement Medal with one award star
|-
|[[File:Joint Meritorious Unit Award-3d.svg|80px]]
|Joint Meritorious Unit Award
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=3|type=service-star|ribbon=Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|width=80}}
|Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation with three bronze service stars
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=Battle Effectiveness Award ribbon, 2nd award.svg|width=80}}
|Navy "E" Ribbon with two Battle E devices
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=2|type=service-star|ribbon=National Defense Service Medal ribbon.svg|width=80}}
|National Defense Service Medal with two bronze service stars
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=1|type=service-star|ribbon=Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal ribbon.svg|width=80}}
|Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal with bronze service star
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=1|type=service-star|ribbon=Vietnam Service Medal ribbon.svg|width=80}}
|Vietnam Service Medal with one bronze service star
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=5|type=service-star|ribbon=Sea Service Deployment Ribbon.svg|width=80}}
|Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon with silver service star
|-
|{{ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 1Class BAR.svg|width=80}}
|Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan) 2009
|-
|[[File:Tong-il Security Medal Ribbon.svg|80px]]
|Order of National Security Merit, Tong-il Medal (Republic of Korea)
|-
|{{ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=Order of Naval Merit - Commander (Brazil) - ribbon bar.png{{!}}border|width=80}}
|Commander of the Order of Naval Merit (Brazil)
|-
|[[File:Ribbon Bar of the Grand Cross The Order of Naval Merit Admiral Padilla.svg|80px]]
|Grand Cross of the Order of Naval Merit Admiral Padilla (Colombia)
|-
|{{ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Tentera) ribbon.png|width=80}}
|Meritorious Service Medal (Military) (Singapore)
|}
Roughead is also a distinguished recipient of the "Bob Hope Five Star Award for Distinguished Service to America."<br />
The Asian-American Government Executives Network (AAGEN) recognized Roughead with the AAGEN Excellence in Public Service Award June 10, 2010.

==External links==
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* [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=253 Official Navy biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222132845/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=253 |date=2014-02-22 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111008033020/http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Adm._Gary_Roughead Gary Roughead], profile at whorunsgov.com (''[[Washington Post]]'')

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