Earl E. Stone – class of 1924 – First Director of Armed Forces Security Agency Arleigh Burke – class of 1930 – Chief of Naval Operations Edward J. O’Donnell – 1930s – Superintendent of Naval Postgraduate School 1965-67 Joseph Weber – class of 1945 – Regarded as the "Father of Gravitational Wave Detection" David B. Hertz – class of 1944 – Operations researcher; a pioneer of Monte Carlo methods in finance Stanley Thomas Counts – class of 1955 – Rear Admiral; NATO RIM-7 Sea Sparrow project manager[15] Wayne E. Meyer – class of 1955 – Regarded as the "Father of Aegis" John H. Miller – class of 1957 – Marine Corps Lieutenant general James D. Watkins – class of 1958 – Secretary of Energy, Chief of Naval Operations Wilbur F. Simlik – class of 1959 – Major general in the Marine Corps Edgar Mitchell – class of 1961 – Astronaut Gerald Carr – class of 1961 – Astronaut Ronald Evans – class of 1964 – Astronaut Paul Weitz – class of 1964 – Astronaut Robert F. Overmyer – class of 1964 – Astronaut Eugene Cernan – class of 1964 – Astronaut Jack Lousma – class of 1965 – Astronaut James G. Roche – class of 1966 – 20th Secretary of the Air Force Michael Smith – class of 1968 – Astronaut James D. Beans – class of 1971 – Marine Corps General Robert Springer – class of 1971 – Astronaut Jon McBride – class of 1971 – Astronaut George A. Fisher Jr. – class of 1972 – retired Army lieutenant general, commander of First United States Army David Leestma – class of 1972 – Astronaut Thomas E. White – class of 1974 – United States Secretary of the Army Patricia Ann Tracey – class of 1974 – First woman to earn third star in the US Navy Glenn Ewing – class of 1975 or 1976 – American microcomputer industry pioneer (IMSAI) Gordon Eubanks – class of 1976 – American microcomputer industry pioneer (IMSAI, Compiler Systems, Digital Research, Symantec) David Hilmers – class of 1978 – Astronaut Stan Arthur – class of 1979 – Vice Chief of Naval Operations Michael Coats – class of 1979 – Astronaut William S. Wallace – class of 1980 – Commanding General, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command Winston Scott – class of 1980 – Astronaut Lillian E. Fishburne – class of 1982 – First African-American female Rear Admiral (RDML) in the United States Navy Keith B. Alexander – class of 1983 – Director of the National Security Agency Harvey E. Johnson Jr. – class of 1983 – Chief operating officer of Federal Emergency Management Agency Michael Lopez-Alegria – class of 1984 – Astronaut Kenneth S. Reightler Jr. – class of 1984 – Astronaut Mark E. Ferguson III – class of 1984 – Vice Chief of Naval Operations Michael Mullen – class of 1985 – 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Foreman – class of 1986 – Astronaut Thomas R. Turner II – class of 1986 – Commanding general of the United States Army North Kent Rominger – class of 1987 – Astronaut Jeffrey Williams – class of 1987 – Astronaut Brent Jett – class of 1989 – Astronaut Carlos Noriega – class of 1990 – Astronaut Robert Curbeam – class of 1990 – Astronaut Cecil D. Haney – class of 1990 – Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet Scott Altman – class of 1990 – Astronaut Dan Bursch – class of 1991 – Astronaut Christopher Ferguson – class of 1992 – Astronaut William McCool – class of 1992 – Astronaut William H. McRaven – class of 1993 – Commander, United States Special Operations Command John Scott Redd – class of 1993 – Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Mark Kelly – class of 1994 – Astronaut, United States Senator from Arizona Stephen Frick – class of 1994 – Astronaut John Herrington – class of 1995 – Astronaut Alan G. Poindexter – class of 1995 – Astronaut Edward G. Winters, III– class of 1995 – Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command Kenneth Ham – class of 1996 – Astronaut Marcos Pontes – class of 1998 – Astronaut Nancy E. Brown – class of 1999 – Principal advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Eric T. Olson – class of 1985 – Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command Elizabeth Hight – class of 2001 – Vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency Jan Tighe – class of 2001 – Deputy director of operations for U.S. Cyber Command, first female IW flag officer Victor J. Glover – class of 2009 – Commander, US Navy - Astronaut David Clarke – class of 2013 – Sheriff and commentator Rear Admiral S M Abul Kalam Azad – class of 2017 – Bangladeshi Naval officer Arthur K. Cebrowski – Director of the Office of Force Transformation Ben Connable – retired Marine major, professor at the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School Lee F. Gunn – Naval Inspector General USN Mark Weatherford – first deputy under secretary for cybersecurity at the DHS Qamar Javed Bajwa – Chief of Army Staff Pakistan Army Bujar Nishani – President of Albania Samuel Paparo – Commander of the United States Pacific Fleet (current) Guillermo Barrera – class of 1983 – Commander of the Colombian Navy Carlos Del Toro – class of 1989 – 78th Secretary of the Navy (current)