CMDCS (SW/AW) Kristi Pashkevich

Past Command Senior Chief, USS Jackson (LCS 6) Gold Crew

07 June 2019 A native of Pendleton, Oregon, Command Senior Chief Pashkevich joined the Navy in March of 1999. She attended Operations Specialist “A” School in Damn Neck, Virginia graduating September 2000. Pashkevich is a graduate of the Senior Enlisted Academy Class 211, Brown and the Command Master Chief Course Class 192. She also holds an Associate’s Degree in General Education.

Her sea assignments include USS Boxer (LHD 4); USS Benfold (DDG 65); USNS Alan Shepard (T-AKE 3) and USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 5) where she served as the Military detachment CPOIC; and LCS Crew 101 where she sailed both USS Freedom (LCS 1) and USS Fort Worth (LCS 3).

Ashore, she was assigned to the Fleet Area and Control Surveillance Facility, San Diego; Fleet Maritime Patrol Mobile Operations Communications Center Misawa, Japan; Tactical Training Group Pacific; and instructed at Center for Security Forces Detachment North Island where she qualified as a Survival, Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE) Instructor. Pashkevich’s current assignment is command senior chief for USS Jackson (LCS 6) Gold Crew.

Her personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (four awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (two awards), Volunteer Service Medal and various other personal and unit awards.