{"id":109,"date":"2022-04-25T14:48:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/citadel-history\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2022-09-15T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T18:55:18","slug":"vice-admiral-james-b-stockdale-usn-ret","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/citadel-history\/presidents\/vice-admiral-james-b-stockdale-usn-ret\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN, Ret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-vice-admiral-james-b-stockdale-usn-ret-1979-1980\">Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN, Ret (1979-1980)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Admiral Stockdale was born in Abingdon, Illinois in 1923. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduation, he served for twenty years successively as carrier aviator, landing signal officer, test and fighter pilot, aircraft squadron commander, and air wing commander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was shot down in Vietnam and held prisoner of war for seven and a half years. After his release in 1973, he received the Medal of Honor and became Commander of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Wing of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. In 1977, he accepted the presidency of the Naval War College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After retirement from the Navy in 1979, Admiral Stockdale became the President of The Citadel. 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