"Star" Encounter for DAU Execs Visiting Port Hueneme - Frank Anderson Jr., and Rich Reed, Defense Acquisition University - Brief Article

Program Manager, March, 2001

Frank Anderson Jr., DAU President and Rich Reed, DAU Provost "mingled with the stars" during a routine tour of the DAU Port Hueneme campus in sunny California. The two were there to take part in a Feb. 21 dedication ceremony of the renovated Civil Engineers Corps Officer's School (CECOS) building -- where the DAU Education and Training Center (ETC) resides.

Coincidentally, Anderson and Reed also met with David James Elliot, who stars as U.S. Navy Cmdr. Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr., a Navy lawyer and officer in the Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps in the CBS-TV show JAG.

The JAG crew was filming a courtroom scene for a new episode using one of the newly renovated CECOS rooms as the courtroom, and the Seabee Naval Base at Port Hueneme as the background for the episode. Last season, JAG received the Red Cross "Spirit Award" for positive representation of the military -- combining all the visceral excitement of military conflict and all the suspense of a criminal investigation. An international hit as well, JAG is seen in 90 countries, and is a Top 10 series in Australia.

Other highlights of the trip included the retirement ceremony of Dr. Gregory Kailian, ETC Director as well as a Townhall meeting with faculty members.