Faculty

Commander Mark McManus joined the Naval War College in the fall of 2009. A Naval Aviator with operational experience in Combat Search and Rescue, Undersea Warfare and Special Operations Support, his most recent assignment was as the Officer-In-Charge of Expeditionary Sea Combat Unit ONE, a unit conducting Expanded Maritime Interception Operations and SOF support in the PACOM AOR. Prior to that tour, he 
was a member of the USJFCOM Standing Joint Force Headquarters (Core Element), with notable deployments to post-Katrina New Orleans as the DOD liaison officer to the FEMA Jefferson Parish Strike Team where he coordinated all DOD assistance to that affected Parish and a deployment with US Air Forces, Central Command to Qatar as
the Chief of Plans (J-5) for the JTF stood up to support the 2006 Asian Games; the first DOD JTF ever established for preemptive Foreign Humanitarian Assistance. Commander McManus is a graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, the U.S. Naval War College, Joint Forces Staff College and was designated a Joint Specialty Officer in 2007.