SEAL Staff Six alum named advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Workers: DoD

A former member of SEAL Staff Six has been named the best rating enlisted official and an advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Workers, army officers introduced Tuesday.

Navy Fleet Grasp Chief David Isom, as soon as a member of Navy Particular Warfare Improvement Group generally known as SEAL Staff Six, will change into the sixth Senior Enlisted Advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, in keeping with the Division of Protection.

The SEAC place was created in 2005 and is taken into account probably the most senior enlisted chief, in keeping with Activity and Function.

Grasp Chief Isom has an extended resume of energetic obligation service together with fight and operational deployments in Operation Desert Protect, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and different stints by way of the Pacific and the Horn of Africa, in keeping with his official biography.

The profession soldier additionally deployed with SEAL Staff 1 throughout his illustrious profession, in keeping with that biography.

Throughout his service profession, Isom gained 4 Bronze Star Medals, together with two with distinction for valor, two Fight Motion Ribbons, and a Presidential Unity Quotation, Activity and Function reported.

“Grasp Chief Isom’s assignments have included a full vary of duties in Sea, Air, Land (SEAL) Groups at Theater Particular Operations Instructions and throughout the joint setting,” the newly minted SEAC’s biography learn.

Most not too long ago, Isom has served because the Command Senior Enlisted Chief for US Indo-Pacific Command.

Isom joined the Navy in 1987, impressed by his Korean Warfare Military veteran father and a love of the ocean that he found whereas browsing off the coast of his native North Carolina, he revealed in an interview in 2022.

The embellished SEAL revealed that he was promoted to the rank of Chief Petty Officer across the time of September eleventh, 2001, and was quickly deployed to the Center East.

After shedding “teammates” whereas preventing in Afghanistan in Iraq, Isom stated he realized, “the important thing function of leaders and caring for folks and growing different leaders,” in keeping with that interview.

Grasp Chief Isom is changing present SEAC Troy E. Black, the DoD stated within the launch.