The Post COMMUNITY Sunday, November 30,2003 5 By M.B. GILLIGAN Post Correspondent DALLAS — It’s a long way from Dallas to the Mediterranean Sea, but Scott Fry made the trip there and back in grand style. Vice Admiral Fry handed over command of the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet November 4, and returned the next day for a visit with his parents, Francis and Lois Fry. “I am going to miss the Navy and the wonderful people I've worked with and the friends I've made,” Fry said. “But, I've done everything I've wanted to do and as I've told other people, I'm the perfect example of the American dream.” Scott Fry graduated from Dallas High School in 1967 and was recruit- ed to play football at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. “Plebe Summer was miserable,” Back Mountain Business & Professional Association said Fry. “It was the first time I was away from home and it was very dif- ficult.” Midshipmen start out with a sev- en-week intensive training program called Plebe Summer. It is said that a midshipman’s time at the Naval Academy can be divided into four parts: Induction Day, Plebe Summer, Plebe year, and the next three years. Midshipmen, then and now, go on a Naval cruise in the summer after Plebe year to get a better under- standing of life at sea. “l went on my ‘Youngster Cruise’ on a destroyer operating in the Caribbean and I really liked it,” said Fry. “I knew then that I wanted to stay.” His first tour of duty upon graduation was on a frigate at New- port, Rhode Island. Fry advanced through the ranks and eventually commanded the same frigate that had been his first assignment He also was command- <=_Holida er of a destroyer, a destroyer squadron, an aircraft carrier battle group and the Sixth Fleet. “My wife, Mary, and I were 24 when I had my first tour of duty in Naples, Italy. We did a lot of travel- ing,” said Fry, who had three tours in Italy. The oldest of his three daughters was born there and the younger two went to high school there. Although he has been many places during his nearly 33 years in the Navy, the favorite of his parents, Francis and Lois Fry, was Annapolis, where Scott Fry served as Assistant to the Superintendent of the Naval Academy from 1986-88. His family lived in one of the large brick ante- bellum houses that face the parade ground on the Academy Yard. “It was our best family tour,” said Scott Fry. “My daughters were able to walk to elementary school.” More- over, his barents were able to visit, err 8 cott Fry completes lifetime journey in the Navy His sister, Holly Monk, also lives in the Back Mountain. Admiral Fry cited several of the in- teresting things he has done during his career from briefing the Presi- dent and other top administration of- ficials in the Oval Office to appear- ing on CNN. The War on Terrorism also had a major impact on his du- ties. “I was tasked with developing an operation to interdict shipping in the Mediterranean that could have been involved with terrorism,” said Fry. That involved boarding ships and checking their cargo. “We continued doing that right through Operation Iraqi Freedom.” During that time, Vice Admiral Fry commanded the Sixth Fleet, sta- tioned in Gaeta, Italy with 40 ships, two aircraft carrier groups and over 20,000 sailors. Fry will officially retire from the U.S. Navy in January 2004. PEI ‘House # Friday, Dacor ber 5 through Sunday, December 7 :: (U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY PH1 PAUL J. PHELPS, SIXTH FLEET PUBLIC AFFAIRS.) Vice Admiral Scott Fry is pictured at the change of command ceremony on board the USS LaSalle in Gaeta, Italy. Admi- ral Fry addressed guests during the cer- emony where he was relieved of duty as Commander of the Sixth Fleet and Striking and Support Forces South. 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