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MARMC Changes Hands

Navy NewsStand

Story Number: NNS060831-06
8/31/2006

By Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Patrick Gearhiser, Fleet Public Affairs Center Atlantic

NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- Capt. Kevin B. Taylor relinquished command of Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) to Rear Adm. J. Clark Orzalli on Naval Station Norfolk Aug. 29.

“Assumption and relinquishment of command represents the highest pinnacle of military achievement,” said guest speaker Rear Adm. Jeffrey A. Brooks, MARMC director of fleet maintenance. “This Navy change of command ceremony represents a transfer of total responsibility, authority and accountability from one superb naval officer to another.”

Taylor has had a 22-year naval career stretching from the Pacific Surface Warfare Officer School to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), to the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility in Yokosuka, Japan. He was hand-picked to take command of MARMC in July 2005.

“The long range plan was to put a Navy maintenance flag officer in the job to provide the leadership and also the subject matter expertise to execute this new strategy and institutionalize it Navywide,” Brooks said. “In the interim, we needed a hot-running Navy captain with proven credentials to get the ball rolling.”

After the official reading of orders, Orzalli took to the podium to address the command.

“As the lead maintenance center, we are challenged to set the standard,” Orzalli said. “We are a team, and it will take the combined effort of each one of us to achieve that end state.”