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Michael J. Pastore, graduated Villanova University with a B.S. in Physics and NROTC commission as a Naval Officer, was immediately ordered to nuclear power and submarine officer training schools. He then reported to his submarines completing five patrol cycles.
After naval service, he had a civil service career as an operations research analyst at USNUSL. Lab sent him to University of Pennsylvania for Systems Engineering master degree. He made hundreds of sea trips around the globe in submarines, destroyers, cruisers, carriers, P-3s and the battleship USS IOWA (BB 61). Major projects were on the fleet’s first modern towed array sonar, demonstration of a commercial tonal analyzer in submarine exercises that resulted in the BQR-20 series, first use of a DeskTop Computer (DTC) for fleet active/passive sonar range predictions, building an ASW DTC Combat System for FFs (FFISTS) and a DTC interim ASW tactical trainer—TASWIT. He was Science Advisor to the Commander, Second Fleet (C2F) where he led a C2F team in developing the Fleet DTC Program.
He is the author/co-author of more than 150 technical reports and magazine/national symposium articles. At the end of his career, he served as Technical Assistant to the Director of Anti-submarine Warfare Op-71 and, later, to the Oceanographer of the Navy Op-96.
He is retired in Escondido, CA, with his black-powder cannon.
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