Mark Donahue, CAPT
Military Professor
Joint Military Operations
Profile
CAPTAIN MARK E. DONAHUE, USN, reported to the Joint Military Operations Department as a faculty member in September 2008 following his tour as Chief Current Operations (J33) at US Pacific Command. Prior to his assignment at PACOM, he served as Commander, Amphibious Squadron ELEVEN forward deployed in Sasebo Japan where he conducted operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Unified Assistance. In 2004 he served on the CJTF-7/MNF-I staff at Camp Victory, Iraq. He had command of USS GUNSTON HALL (LSD 44) from 2000 to 2002. A 1981 graduate of the US Naval Academy, he is a Surface Warfare Officer who has served afloat in USS ESTEEM (MSO 438), USS FOX (CG 33), USS SAMUEL B ROBERTS (FFG 58), USS JOHN A MOORE (FFG 19), USS ESSEX (LHD 2) and as an Engineering Inspector for the CINCLANTFLT Propulsion Examining Board. Shore duty assignments have included Surface Warfare Officers School, Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center Roanoke, Virginia, Commander Naval Surface Force US Atlantic Fleet and Commander Fleet Forces Command. He is a 2000 graduate of the Naval War College where he received a Master’s Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies.