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Eng./Fr. Nov. 1998

Military Representative of Canada Vice-Admiral James A. King, CMM, CD 1998 - 2002

Vice-Admiral King was born in Montral in 1948. He graduated from McGill University in 1968 and was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy. After qualifying as an Operations Specialist, he served in several such appointments at both Maritime Command and National Defence Headquarters and a year at sea in USN and Royal Navy Ships as Squadron Operations Officer on the staff of the NATO Standing Naval Force Atlantic. He also served as Executive Officer in HMCS ALGONQUIN, and as Operations Division Commander and Deputy Commandant in Fleet School Halifax. From 1984 to 1989, he commanded the destroyer HMCS HURON and the Fifth Canadian Destroyer Squadron. He then assumed the duties of Deputy Chief of Staff Readiness at Maritime Command Headquarters in Halifax, Nova Scotia and later also acted as Chief of Staff Operations during the initial deployment of Canada's Naval Task Group to the Persian Gulf. Promoted to the rank of Commodore in 1991, he attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in London prior to becoming Chief of Staff Personnel & Training at Maritime Headquarters in January, 1992. In the summer of 1993, he took up the appointment of Director General Maritime Development at National Defence Headquarters. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral in May 1995, and assumed the duties of Associate Assistant Deputy Minister (Policy) and later as Director General International Security Policy. He was promoted to his present rank on 1 July 1998 and assumed the post of Canadian Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee in Permanent Session, in Brussels, Belgium on 2 August 1998. Vice-Admiral King was awarded the rank of Commander in the Order of Military Merit in 1997. He and his wife, Barbara, share interests in travel, skiing, sailing, reading and fishing.