Vice admiral architzel biography
David Architzel (born ) is a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy....
David Architzel
United States admiral
David Architzel (born 1951)[1] is a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy.
Vice Admiral Architzel is a native of Ogdensburg, New York and Long Island.
His last assignment was as Commander of Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR).
Vice Admiral Architzel was relieved by Vice Admiral David A. Dunaway and retired from nearly four decades of service on September 20, 2012.[2]
Biography
Architzel was born in Ogdensburg, New York.
He grew up in Merrick, New York and has one brother, Ralph, and two sisters, Reba and Anne Fleming. Architzel graduated from Sanford H. Calhoun High School in 1969. Among his classmates were Bennett "Ben" Cohen, Jerry Greenfield and his twin sister Anne.[3][4]
Architzel graduated from the U.S.
Naval Academy in 1973 with a B.S. degree in mathematics. He later earned an M.S. degree in aeronautical systems from the University of West Florida.[5]
Architzel served as the commanding officer of USS Guam from 1994 to 1996.[6]