Transportation 2025: REAR ADM. CARL A. LAHTI

In July 2024, 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 previously 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.

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 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. He’s a member of the Chesapeake Bay Commission.

Awards Lahti has received include the Defense Superior Service Medal and Legion of Merit, as well as the Japanese government’s Order of the Rising Sun (Gold and Silver Star).

WHAT I DO FOR FUN: Off-road Jeep driving, camping, amateur radio

MOST RECENT BOOK READ: “The Splendid and the Vile,” by Erik Larson

FAVORITE TEAMS: Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres

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