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The lieutenant junior grade originally had been scheduled to make his first oerseas deployment last month to Japan.

It was there, he said, that he developed leadership skills when, as a lieutenant junior grade, he was often put in charge of the ship on weekends.

“That was a big evolution for us to pull in,” said Tera Geoffrey, a lieutenant junior grade assigned to the ship.

In 2017, he was promoted to lieutenant junior grade and served as a junior commissioned officer in the Navy, and in 2019 was promoted to lieutenant.

Navy from lieutenant junior grade to lieutenant on the 75th anniversary of D-Day.