In honor of
Captain Cynthia L. Widick, United States Navy
The Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service
cordially invites you to attend
an award and retirement ceremony
on Friday, the sixth of November two thousand and nine
ten o’clock in the morning
Captain Widick began her military career as an Army linguist (Russian) in 1975. Among the great many things she has done: she has served at sea as the Commander, SEVENTH Fleet Cryptologist, was Commanding Officer of U.S. Naval Security Group Activity Naples, Italy and completed a staff tour at Commander, Naval Security Group Command in G10 - the training directorate.
CONGRATULATIONS SHIPMATE !!
10 comments:
In all my years, Cindy is in the top five Sailors I’ve ever known when it comes to clear thinking, strong leadership and impermeable ethics…all while being one of the nicest people alive. Aloha, Jim.
Best at NSA, for sure.
Never met a finer Navy officer in the NSG than Cindy.
[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 72 (Wednesday, May 14, 2003)]
THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE
INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C.,
SECTIONS 624:
To be Captain
JEAN E. BENFER, 1341
LEE S. CARDWELL, 1727
FRANK J. CARUSO JR., 5394
SEAN R. FILIPOWSKI, 6388
REINER W. LAMBERT, 1372
ALLEN V. POLLARD, 0385
CYNTHIA L. WIDICK, 3521
While Jim Newman's words are hard to beat let me add that Cindy kept us all in awe at how dedicated and inspiring to our mission and people one can be. All the while she kept her sense of humor and priorities.
It is those key people like Cindy who make us a great community.
I served under her when she was a LT at NCTAMS WESTPAC. The Captain was one of the finest officers I have known.
-- Ray Young
(formerly) CTA3 USN
Best female officer the NSG ever had.
I noticed all of the Captains left the Navy before Sean was selected for flag. The board did not have a hard voice to make with all of these people retired.
Anon from Sept 11.
You're right. Every one of those Captains retired. All Sean Filipowski had to do was stick around. Each one of those Captains would have given him a run for his money to be selected as Flag. Two women also. They should have remained on active duty longer for at least a look.
Cynthia Widick,
Chief of Office Operations
National Security Agency/Central Security Service, Threat Operations Center
Ms. Cynthia Widick, a member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service (DISES) and the Chief of Office of Operations within the NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center (NTOC),
leads a workforce of government civilians, military, and contractor personnel.
Ms. Widick was the primary architect of the NTOC Operations Transformation, an effort to
transform the current NTOC Operations Center to provision situational awareness to partners
throughout the Defense, Cyber, and Intelligence Communities. Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Widick served in the U.S. Navy as a Cryptologic/Information Warfare officer where she held a range of leadership positions, both stateside and overseas.
Ms. Widick retired from the U.S. Navy with the rank of Captain after 30 years of military service.
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