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List of Supreme Allied Commanders Atlantic


  Date Incumbent
Service
1
mccormick 30 Jan 1952 - 12 Apr 1954 Adm Lynde D. McCormick
US Navy
2
12 Apr 1954 - 29 Feb 1960 Adm Jerauld Wright
US Navy
3
29 Feb 1960 - 30 Apr 1963 Adm Robert L. Dennison
US Navy
4
 nophoto 30 Apr 1963 - 30 Apr 1965 Adm Harold Page Smith
US Navy
5
30 Apr 1965 - 17 Jun 1967 Adm Thomas H. Moorer
US Navy
6
17 Jun 1967 - 30 Sep 1970 Adm Ephraim P. Holmes
US Navy
7
30 Sep 1970 - 31 Oct 1972 Adm Charles K. Duncan
US Navy
8
 nophoto 31 Oct 1972 - 30 May 1975 Adm Ralph W. Cousins
US Navy
9
30 May 1975 - 30 Sep 1978 Adm Isaac C. Kidd Jr.
US Navy
10
 nophoto 30 Sep 1978 - 30 Sep 1982 Adm Harry D. Train II
US Navy
11
30 Sep 1982 - 27 Nov 1985 Adm Wesley L. McDonald
US Navy
12
 nophoto 27 Nov 1985 - 22 Nov 1988 Adm Lee Baggett Jr.
US Navy
13
22 Nov 1988 - 18 May 1990 Adm Frank B. Kelso II
US Navy
14
18 May 1990 - 13 Jul 1992 Adm Leon A. Edney
US Navy
15
 nophoto 13 Jul 1992 - 31 Oct 1994 Adm Paul D. Miller
US Navy
16
31 Oct 1994 - 24 Sep 1997 Gen John J. Sheehan
US Marines Corp
17
17_gehman_tn 24 Sep 1997 - 05 Sep 2000 Adm Harold W. Gehman, Jr.
US Navy
18
05 Sep 2000 - 02 Oct 2002 Gen William F. Kernan
US Army
19
 nophoto Oct 2002 - Jun 2003 Adm Ian Forbes (Acting)
Royal Navy
20
02 Oct 2002 - 19 Jun 2003 Adm Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr.
US Navy
The Prague Summit in the Czech Republic in 2002 led to ACLANT
being decommissioned effective 19 June 2003,
and a new
Allied Command Transformation (ACT)
being established as its successor.
21 20_giambastiani_tn
19 Jun 2003 - 01 Aug 2005
Adm Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr. US Navy
22 21_smith_tn
10 Nov 2005 - 09 Nov 2007
Gen. Lance L. Smith US Air Force
23 25_mattis_tn 09 Nov 2007 - 08 Sep 2009 Gen. James N. Mattis
US Marine Corps