CMDCM (SW/AW/IW) Terrance G. Wright

Past Command Master Chief, USS Barry (DDG 52)

03 July 2022 Master Chief Petty Officer, Terrance Wright, is a native of Miami, FL., reported to Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois, in March 2001 and began his career as a seaman, completing Gunner’s Mate A-School in December 2001.  

He has served in a myriad of sea duty assignments, including USS Shoup (DDG 86), USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), and most recently as Senior Enlisted Leader at Naval Underwater Warfare Center Keyport.  

His previous shore tours include service as the Anti-Terrorism Team Lead Instructor for Afloat Training Command Western Pacific in Yokosuka, Japan, on the Surface Forces Atlantic and Naval Surface Squadron Staff as Force Gunner for Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, FL., and most recently as a Faculty Advisor at the United States Navy Senior Enlisted Academy.  

He completed six shipboard deployments to the Western Pacific and Central Command in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, disaster relief operations in Indonesia and counter-piracy operations in the Horn of Africa. He also served on numerous deployments in support of Seventh Fleet forward deployed forces.  Wright is a graduate of Brandman University with a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership with honors, University of Maryland with a Bachelor’s of Science in Criminal Justice with honors, a graduate CMC/COB Class 22050, the SEA Class 233 Brown Group, and the U.S. Air Force Senior Non-Commissioned Officers Academy Class 2015-D Flight 12.  

His personal decorations include seven Navy Commendation Medals, two Navy Achievement Medals, and various other personal and unit awards.