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Senior Chief Petty Officer Geater is a native of Dallas, TX. He started his naval career on 17 Jan 2006. After he graduated from Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, he attended Operations Specialist “A” School in Dam Neck, VA.
His first tour as an Operation Specialist was onboard USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG-58), stationed out of Mayport, FL. While stationed aboard, he earned both Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist and Enlisted Air Warfare Specialist qualifications. His first deployment was to South America for Counter-Narcotics & Anti-Terrorism Operations in early 2007, later he would deploy to C6F and C5F AOR various times to including a Neptune Warrior Joint operation off the coast of Scotland.
He transferred from USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG-58) in Dec 2010 and reported to the Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-S) in Jan 2011. His role at JIATF-S was to provide up to date tactical awareness to the Admiral of JIATF-S while also earning his Tactical Action Officer (TAO) designation. In 2013 he was moved to N3 Training division and trained Officers for TAO/Command Duty Officer (CDO) qualifications.
His next set of orders took him to COMUSNAVCENT 5th Fleet in March 2014 as an IAMD/BMD coordinator. He attended AN/TPY-2 Radar School (Army) and controlled ground a based radar.
Leaving COMUSNAVCENT in March 2015 he received orders to the USS MOMSEN and obtained Air Intercept Controller en-route. While onboard USS MOMSEN Senior Chief Geater served as OI Division Leading Petty Officer for the first two years and was selected and pinned to Chief Petty Officer September 15, 2017. Furthermore, he served as Deck Department’s Leading Chief Petty Officer (DLCPO) for one year while the billet was gapped and was selected to lead as the DLCPO for the Operations Department for his last 18 months onboard.
In 2019 OSCS Geater was selected for orders to SCSTC Det South-west and reported in January 2020. While serving as C2M2 and Course supervisor for a variety of courses he obtained his Master Training Specialist qualification.
He transferred from SCSTC Det Southwest January of 2023 and reported to Tactical Air Control Squadron (TACRON) 12 as the Operations Department and Communications department LCPO. During his time, he deployed on the USS AMERICA during FDNF patrol 24.2 and would be screened to OSCS on that same deployment. Senior Chief Petty Officer Geater then departed TACRON 12 in December of 2024 and checked into COMTACGRU One as the Senior Enlisted Leader and is currently filling that role. His personal awards include Navy Joint Commendation Medal, Navy Joint Navy Achievement Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (2), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (4) and various unit and campaign awards
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