Stephen Clarey

Departing Honolulu shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Clarey led the life of a service junior, moving often and attending thirteen different elementary and secondary schools.

He graduated from Punahou School in 1958 in Honolulu and then Williams College in 1962 in Massachusetts, where he was a member of the Delta Psi/Saint Anthony Hall fraternity, and a team manager for four years for Robert Muir, the U.S. swimming coach during the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

He joined the navy immediately after graduating from Williams and obtained his commission in October 1962 from Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, where he was the regimental adjutant.

He subsequently deployed to the Western Pacific as the Surface Combatant Task Group Commander (CTG 75.1) embarked aboard USS Harry W. Hill, conducting 13 national, bi-lateral, and multi-national exercises with U.S. allies from Korea, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei.

In February 1991, during the largest amphibious operation of Desert Storm, those Marines landed administratively in northeast Saudi Arabia where they joined in the coalition ground campaign in the liberation of Kuwait.

[9][10][11] En route home from Desert Storm to San Diego, Clarey led an international naval relief force in Bangladesh in the aftermath of a devastating typhoon that killed more than 150,000.

Sailors and Marines under his command delivered over 2,000 tons of disaster relief supplies to more than 1.5 million storm-ravaged inhabitants during Joint Task Force Operation Sea Angel.

[12] At NASSCO he directed three multimillion-dollar joint industry–maritime administration–maritime technology (Maritech) commercial business development projects: cruise ships for Hawaii, high-speed electric-drive trailerships and double-hulled crude-oil tankers for Alaskan service.