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Immediate Release

Flag Officer Assignments


The Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John M. Richardson announced today the following assignments:

Rear Adm. (lower half) Terry J. Moulton, selected for promotion to rear admiral, will be assigned as deputy chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; and deputy surgeon general of the Navy, Falls Church, Virginia. Moulton is currently serving as commander, Navy Medicine East; and director of the Medical Service Corps, Portsmouth, Virginia.

Rear Adm. (lower half) Kenneth J. Iverson will be assigned as commander, Navy Medicine East, Portsmouth, Virginia. Iverson is currently serving as deputy chief, medical operations, M3, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Falls Church, Virginia.

Rear Adm. (lower half) David A. Lane will be assigned as director, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. Lane is currently serving as medical officer of the Marine Corps; and director, Health Services, Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, Arlington, Virginia.

Rear Adm. (lower half) Stephen M. Pachuta will be assigned as medical officer of the Marine Corps; director, Health Services, Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps; and chief of the Dental Corps, Arlington, Virginia. Pachuta is currently serving as director, Medical Resources, Plans, and Policy Division, N0931, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; and chief of the Dental Corps, Washington, District of Columbia.

Capt. Anne M. Swap, selected for promotion to rear admiral (lower half), will be assigned as director, Medical Resources, Plans, and Policy Division, N0931, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; and director of the Medical Service Corps, Washington, District of Columbia. Swap is currently serving as Bureau of Medicine and Surgery liaison officer to the Defense Health Agency, Falls Church, Virginia.

NOTE: These assignments were updated with corrections on Nov. 6, 2015.