Photo By Maj. Sean Delpech | Army Reserve Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael W. Carr (center) coordinates with staff...... read more read more
FORT BENJAMIN HARRISON, Ind. – A fixture of the Army Watercraft community will be lost when Army Reserve Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael W. Carr is slated to retire April 30, 2015.
Carr has more than 30 years of service under his belt, 20 years of it active duty, but he has been part of the sailing community for more than 40 years.
Carr received a Master of Arts in Unconventional Warfare and Special Operations from American Military University, has served as faculty with the Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies and authored the book "Weather Predicting Simplified: How to Read Weather Charts and Satellite Images."
“The Army is losing the experience and knowledge of an extremely capable watercraft warrant officer, but that isn’t all they’re losing,” said Lt. Col William M. Delaney, 310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Chief of Operations (CHOPS).
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Carr is not just taking with him decades of irreplaceable experience from his unit and the Warrant Officer Corps, he is one of a few that have experience that spans multiple services.
“With CW4 Carr’s retirement from the Army Reserve,” continued Delaney, “we are saying goodbye to the leadership and passion that drive high standards while maintaining Soldiers well-being, which he embodied over his four decades in uniform.”
A New London, Connecticut native, Carr enlisted with the U.S. Coast Guard in 1973 and served until 1989. Carr graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy as an Ensign in 1977 and reached the rank of Coast Guard lieutenant before receiving an honorable discharge from the Coast Guard.
During his enlistment period with the U.S. Coast Guard, Carr’s positions and qualifications included attending the U.S. Navy Ship Salvage Diving Officer Training school in 1979 and then being assigned as officer in charge as diving officer for the U.S. Coast Guard National Strike Force Dive Team from 1979 through 1989.
From 1990 through 2000, Carr served as a Merchant Marine Deck Officer for several organizations, such as Crowley Maritime, Master Mates and Pilots, Maine Maritime Academy, Professional Mariner and Ocean Navigator Magazine.
Carr then enlisted in the Army Reserve in 2000, beginning his time within the Army Watercraft community as an Army Reserve Warrant Officer with the 949th Transportation Company, Floating Craft, based in Baltimore, until 2008.
It was generally known that, “If you need it done now, and done right, you would call Michael Carr,” according to Chief Warrant Officer 2 Gerald Evans, Vessel Master of the MG Robert Smalls, 203rd Transportation Detachment, “he’d either do it himself, teach you how, or he would know who could get it done.”
In 2008, Carr applied for the Army Reserve Active Guard/Reserve (AGR) program, and was assigned to the 310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), under the 377th Theater Sustainment Command.
Carr attended the U.S. Navy Riverine Warfare School, where he was designated as Riverine Warfare Officer 2010, and attended the U.S. Army Electronic Warfare School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Carr was then deployed to Iraq in 2010 as an Electronic Warfare Officer, returning in 2011 to serve as the Operations Watercraft Warrant Officer for the 310th ESC, and was Vessel Master qualified on all watercraft in the Army inventory.
Adopting a stern look, but always a positive outlook, Carr was the source of information and expertise in the Army watercraft community.
“It is this kind of passion that exemplifies great leaders. CW4 Carr’s hallmark was his devotion to Soldiers and instilling the traditions of leadership and dedication to mission accomplishment, his legacy will be sustained through the Soldiers he trained during his career,” said Delaney.
Embracing the Total Warrior ethos even when approaching retirement from the Army Reserve at the age of 60, Carr surpassed the maximum score of 300 during his final Army Physical Fitness Test, achieving an actual raw score of 353 with 62 pushups, 101 situps and a two-mile run time of 14 minutes and 36 seconds.
| Date Taken: | 04.21.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 04.21.2015 17:47 |
| Story ID: | 160744 |
| Location: | INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, US |
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