2023 DGA Recipient ADM Cecil D. Haney ’78, USN (Ret.) opens up about paving way for young Black submarine officers
Published on February 7, 2023
The Navy’s second Black four-star admiral and first Black four-star submariner is a native of D.C. who says he was always military-inclined and may have watched too much of the 1962 show “Combat” while growing up.
Retired Navy Adm. Cecil Eugene Diggs Haney is the son of an army veteran who served in the Quartermaster Corp during World War II. But like many people from “the greatest generation,” Haney said, “He didn’t talk about it much. He didn’t like the idea of glorifying warfare.”
He is a 1978 graduate of the United States Naval Academy where he studied ocean engineering. Read more here.