The Navy has selected Capt. Gregory Thomas to command the Norfolk Navy Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va., starting in early September.
Thomas has commanded Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and its maintenance facility in Hawaii since June 2007.
Norfolk is the Navy’s oldest shipyard, an 800-acre complex with eight dry docks where the Navy repairs, overhauls and modernizes ships and submarines.
The Navy fired the shipyard’s previous commander, Capt. William Kiestler, after less than a year on the job, because of “failure to ensure critical maintenance work was being performed according to procedure and loss of situational awareness with respect to the status of ongoing submarine projects,” said Navy spokeswoman Patricia Dolan.
