Transportation 2024: REAR ADM. CARL A. LAHTI

In July, Lahti succeeded Navy Rear Adm. Wesley McCall as commander of the Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, a group of 13 installations from Illinois to North Carolina, including Naval Station Norfolk. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate who most recently was commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Japan/Navy Region Japan, Lahti has studied alternative energy strategies for the Navy. He was director of the military branch’s Energy and Environmental Readiness Division.

A Buffalo, New York, native, Lahti is the third new commander of the mid-Atlantic region in the past three years. He followed McCall, who assumed command of the region in May 2023, and according to a Navy spokesperson, planned to retire, and Vice Adm. Christopher ‘Scotty’ Gray, who was promoted to lead the Navy Installations Command.

Lahti’s assignments have included commanding a submarine squadron and serving as commanding officer of Naval Submarine Base New London. He also was commander of the USS Nebraska. Lahti has earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School and a master’s in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College.