NAME _ William J. Fallon.

AGE-BIRTHDATE-LOCATION _ 63; December 30, 1944; East Orange, N.J.

EXPERIENCE _ Served in flying assignments for 24 years, deploying to the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, embarked aboard the USS Nimitz, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and USS Theodore Roosevelt and other ships. Logged 4,800 flight hours in jet aircraft. He later served in staff assignments with NATO and the U.S. Atlantic Command. He was the vice chief of naval operations at the Pentagon, 2000-2003, then commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command and the U.S. Atlantic Fleet before becoming commander of U.S. Pacific Command. Assumed command of U.S. Central Command on March 16, 2007.

EDUCATION _ Graduate of Villanova University, 1967. Commissioned as naval officer through Naval ROTC program. Also graduate of the Naval War College, Newport, R.I., the National War College in Washington, D.C., and has a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from Old Dominion University in Virginia.

FAMILY _ Wife, Mary.