APMA - Provost Staff

Shawn Gallaher, CAPT, USN, PhD

Assistant Provost for Military Affairs

CAPT Shawn Gallaher is a native of Parkton, NC. He enlisted in the Navy in 1996 joining the
Machinist’s Mate (Nuclear) rating prior to his commissioning as a Surface Warfare Officer at Officer Candidate School Pensacola. He is a 1995 graduate of the University of North Carolina Asheville with a Bachelor of Science in Atmospheric Sciences and earned his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Physical Oceanography from the Naval Postgraduate School.

At Sea, CAPT Gallaher served onboard the USS Rainier (AOE-7) as the Communications Officer and later as the Electrical Officer before cross decking to the USS Oldendorf (DD-972) in support of Operations Southern Watch and Desert Fox. In Sixth Fleet, he served on the USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) supporting the Fleet Commander and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO. Additionally, he served as the Flag Oceanographer for Carrier Strike Group Three (CSG-3) onboard the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74). He has deployed to the Western Pacific, Mediterranean Sea, 5th Fleet area of responsibility and the Arctic Ocean onboard the South Korean icebreaker R/V Araon.

Ashore, Gallaher served overseas as officer-in-charge (OIC) of both a Mobile Environmental Team in Rota, Spain and of an Aviation Forecast Detachment in Sembach, Germany. Stateside he was a military instructor in the Oceanography Department at the U. S. Naval Academy and served as the OPNAV Navigation Requirements Officer at the Pentagon in N2/N6E before transitioning to the Permanent Military Professor community in 2013.

CAPT Gallaher is currently serving as the Assistant Provost for Military Affairs and Naval University System Permanent Military Faculty Program Lead responsible for the management, professional development and training of 250 rotational and permanent military faculty.