George Wikoff

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George M. Wikoff (born 1968) is an American admiral who has served as the commander of United States Naval Forces Europe and Africa and Allied Joint Force Command Naples since 2025. Wikoff graduated from George Washington University's Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps in 1990 and became a naval aviator in the United States Navy. He served on several aircraft carriers and was an instructor at TOPGUN. His senior commands included Carrier Air Wing 3, Carrier Strike Group 5, and concurrently the Naval Air Forces and the Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, the latter in an acting capacity from 2023 to 2024. He was also the vice director of the Joint Staff from 2021 to 2023. Wikoff served as the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, U.S. Fifth Fleet, and Combined Maritime Forces from 2024 to 2025, and oversaw operations during the Red Sea crisis and the Twelve-Day War.

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