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Home Town Santa Cruz
Last Address After retiring, he lived in Great Falls, Va., with his wife, Ginny. He died at Arleigh Burke Nursing Center and was burried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Date of Passing Sep 14, 2009
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Rear Admiral Alexander Malcolm Sinclair
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RADM ALEX SINCLAIR US NAVY - RET.
Home town - Santa Cruz, CA
1944 - 1947 ENLISTED SERVICE
Boot camp - San Diego.
Hospital Corps School.
US NAVAL HOSPITAL WEST PALM , FL. General Ward.
NAPS (Naval Academy Prep School) sponsor Eddie Ederlatz (Navy football coach).
Discharged as a Hospital Corpman.
1948 - 1951 Midshipman USNA
Entered USNA via fleet appt. Commissioned as Ensign June 1951.
1951 - 1953 Sea Assignments.
USS Antietam CVA-36 - WESPAC - Div. officer.
USS Yorktown CVS-10 - WESPAC - Fire Ctrl officer.
USS Shangrila CVS-38 - PACFLT - Div. officer
USS Firecrest AMS-10 - CO - Homeported-Sasebo. Yellow Sea minesweeping ops.
1954 - 1967 Submarine Assignments
Submarine school - New London.
USS Rasher SSR-269 - Wespac - Communications officer.
USS Baya AGSS-318 - PACFLT - Engineering officer.
USS Parche SS-384 - Reserve training - Alemeda, Ca - Officer-in-Charge.
USS Piper SS-409 LANTFLT - XO.
USS BANG SS-385 LANTFLT - CO - SPEC OPS - Barents Sea.
COMSUBPAC STAFF - Pearl Harbor - PCO Instructor.
1968 - 1982 Assignments
Armed Forces Staff College.
Pentagon.
USS Dale CG-19 - WESTPAC - Gufl of Tonkin - XO.
Pentagon.
USS Edward McDonnell DE-1043 - LANTFLT - CO.
USS Leahy CG 16-LANTFLT - Leningrad ship visit - CO.
Pentagon.
Selected for Flag Officer.
Pentagon.
Commander - Crus/Dest Group 5 - PACFLT - CTF 75.
Pentagon DCNO (OP 04B)
Retired - 1982
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1944-1944, University of the Pacific
FromYear 1944
ToYear 1944
College University of the Pacific
Major Football -- All Coast Team
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Last Updated:Jan 19, 2010
Personal Memories
Other Memories After graduating from Santa Cruz High School in 1944 at age 17, he attended the College of the Pacific (now Univ. of the Pacific) where he played football for Amos Alonzo Stagg, a legend in the collegiate game and a Collegiate Football Hall of Fame member. Sinclair was named to the All Coast team that season, which caught the attention of then Navy coach, Eddy Erderlatz. Sinclair enlisted in the Navy at the end of his first college semester, December 1944, and served on active duty as a corpsman prior to receiving his Fleet appointment to the United States Naval Academy.