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Professor Hickey, Director of the College of Distance Education, is a 1980 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.  He earned graduate degrees from Troy University and King's College, London, and graduated from the Naval War College's non-resident program with distinction in 1992.  He holds a Ph.D. in Humanities from Salve Regina University, where he focused on ethics and the use of precision-guided munitions.  A career Naval Flight Officer in the A-6E Intruder, he served a number of operational and staff tours including overseas duty in Bahrain and the United Kingdom.  Prior to joining the Strategy and Policy Department as a military faculty member in 2000, he taught for three years at the United Kingdom's Joint Services Command and Staff College located at RAF Bracknell west of London.