CMDCM(SW/AW/EXW/IW) Lucas W. Jenkins

Command Master Chief, Amphibious Squadron (PHIBRON) 7

09 November 2023 Command Master Chief Jenkins reported to Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois in March of 1999 and began his naval career as a Gunner’s Mate. He was selected into the Command Senior Chief program in February of 2013.

Master Chief Jenkins’ early sea tours and deployments were as MK45 5”/54 Caliber Gun Mount Technician and Surface Search and Rescue (SAR) Swimmer in USS Spruance (DD 963), MK75 76mm Gun Mount Technician, CG Division Leading Chief Petty Officer, SAR Swimmer, and Officer of the Deck (Underway) in USS Elrod (FFG 55), and Small Arms / Demolition Range Division Leading Chief Petty Officer at Commander, Naval Special Warfare Development Group in Virginia Beach, Virginia. 

Ashore, Master Chief Jenkins has served as a SAR Swimmer and Water Survival Instructor at Recruit 
Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois.

He has completed multiple forward-deployed joint assignments in support of Naval Special Warfare as a Joint Command Senior Enlisted Leader (JCSEL) and as a Deputy Chief of Operations for a Joint Special Operations Task Force at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan in 2011 and JCSEL for a Joint Special Operations Task Force in Djibouti - Horn of Africa/Arabian Peninsula in 2013. Additionally, he deployed to Alaska in 2019 as JCSEL for Arctic Expeditionary Joint Logistics over the Shore (JLOTS) operations and again in 2020 as JCSEL of Commander, Maritime Preposition Force alongside the Army’s 7th Transportation Brigade-Expeditionary (7th TBX) for JLOTS operations in the United Arab Emirates.

As Command Master Chief, he completed successful tours and deployments in USS Coronado (LCS 4), USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60), Commander, Naval Beach Group ONE (NBG 1), and in USS Makin Island (LHD 8), where his crew earned the 2023 Battle Efficiency Award for operational excellence.

He currently serves as Command Master Chief at Commander, Amphibious Squadron SEVEN (CPR 7).

Master Chief Jenkins holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and is a graduate of the United States Navy Senior Enlisted Academy Class 169, Command Master Chief Course Class 124, Advanced Command Master Chief Course Class 24010, Command Senior Enlisted Leader Executive Leadership Symposium, and National Defense University KEYSTONE Course Class 19-2.

The combat contributions of the teams with which Master Chief Jenkins has served have been recognized with three Presidential Unit Citations, three Joint Meritorious Unit Awards, and three Meritorious Unit Citations.

He is a Master Training Specialist and is authorized to wear the Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist, Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist, Expeditionary Warfare Specialist, and Enlisted Information Warfare Specialist insignias.