Chairman of the Board:  LCDR Myron N. Wambold, NSCC, Ret.

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LCDR Wambold is on the Retired List of the NSCC Officer Corps and served as Commanding Officer of the Manatee Division in Yankeetown, Florida.  LCDR Wambold also served with the Golden Intruder Squadron at NAS Whidbey where he participated in two Recruit Training Commands and helped to form the NSCC's NAS Miramar Squadron. His active participation in the NSCC started in 1972 and has been affiliated on a "when available" basis since that time until his call to deactivate a unit in 2007 and the formation of the Manatee Division. 

Myron Wambold was the founding Vice President of the NAA and is now a Life Member.  LCDR Wambold was confirmed and succeeded Mr. Chris Barnhart as the Chairman of the Board on January 17, 2009 at the Annual Meeting of the NAA.  Contact: NAAChair@tampabay.rr.com or mwambold@nsccaa.org

President:  Mr. Chris Barnhart

Christopher R. Barnhart served in the Vigilant Division of U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps from 1995 - 2003.  He attained the rank of Cadet Chief Petty Officer in Orlando, Florida. 

In 1997 Barnhart graduated from NLCC Recruit Training at McDill AFB in Tampa FL as the Battalion Male Honor Cadet.  He later went on to attend NSCC Recruit Training in Ft. Benning, GA. 

Barnhart attended Petty Officer Leadership Academy at the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, GA in 1999 where he graduated as the Male Honor Cadet.  Barnhart later went to serve as a Staff Cadet at Recruit Training in Ft. Dix, NJ, Ft. Stewart, GA and back to Ft. Dix. 

In his final year in the NSCC, Chief Barnhart went on the UK Exchange and was in the presence of Her Majesty, the Queen for her Golden Jubilee visit to the Armed Forces. 

Barnhart graduted from University High School in Orlando, Florida with Academic Excellence.  He has an Associate of Arts in Business from the University of Phoenix. 

Barnhart is currently a civilian, employed by Lowe's Home Centers in Mt. Dora, Florida.  He currently lives with his wife, Theresa in Eustis where the NAA is headquartered. 

Barnhart is credited as a founding father of the modern NSCC Alumni Association leading the way from a group of organized people to eventual Incorporation in the State of Florida in 2008.  Chris can be reached at cbarnhart@nsccaa.org.

Vice President:  Mrs. Amy Kelly

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Amy Kelly is a Sea Cadet alumna from Texas.  She was attached with the Colonel William B. Travis Division in Austin, Texas and served as a Cadet from 1993 to 1997. 

Kelly served as Secretary of the NAA before being moved up to the office of Vice President.  In the event of the incapacity of the President, the Vice President assumes the Presidency. 

Kelly is married with three lovely children.  She is an educator in Texas.  Amy can be reached at akelly@nsccaa.org.

Secretary:  Ms. Melissa Casey

Melissa joined the NSCC as a cadet in 1997 with the San Bernardino Division of Southern California. She was appointed as a Midshipman in 1999 and served as Supply and Operations Officer as well as being assigned as the unit Recruiter. Upon her promotion to Ensign she was assigned as the Executive Officer and attended various trainings at RT's and Advanced sites. She is currently Radiology File Room Supervisor at Loma Linda University Medical Center.  She joined the Executive Council as NAA Secretary in May 2009.

Treasurer:  Vacant

The Board of Directors is still seeking applications from members for the Treasurer office.  Please e-mail the president@nsccaa.org

Director:  Ms. Dawn Carter

Dawn started her career in the NLCC as a Navy League Cadet aboard the training ship Virginia in 1986 and became a member of the America Division from 1986-1990.  She left the Division as a Chief Petty Officer in 1990 where she received the Willis E. Reed Award for the Top Cadet in the nation.  Dawn is currently a Richmond-based business consultant analyst in the fields of healthcare administration and finance. Dawn is an accomplished public speaker and a freelance instrumentalist and singer.

Director:  CDR Keith Ullman, USN (Ret.)

Keith Ullman was member of USNSCC Division Delong, Clifton, New Jersey from 1972-1975.  While a cadet he attended boot camp at Recruit Training Center, Orlando, and cruised for two weeks in USCGC Decisive, (WMEC 629) off the Grand Banks conducting fisheries inspections.  He attended the University of South Carolina on a Navy ROTC scholarship and enjoyed a twenty-year active-duty career.  At sea this included service in USS Trenton (LPD 14), deploying five times in three years; commissioning crew of USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60) including her initial deployment and shift of home port to Yokosuka Japan; and USS Valley Forge (CG 50) during a Western Pacific deployment and subsequent drug interdiction off the coast of Mexico.   Ashore, Keith taught ship handling, amphibious operations and planning, anti-air warfare, and shipboard safety at various Navy schools in addition to serving as Chief Staff Officer for Inshore Boat Squadron One, Reserve programs coordinator for Commander, Military Sealift Command and Command of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center, West Palm Beach, Florida.  

Since retirement from active duty in 1999, Keith was the founding teacher of the Palm Beach Maritime Academy, and the founding Senior Naval Science Instructor of a Navy Junior ROTC program.  He has taught reading, math, science, history and English at the middle school, high school and college levels.  He has attended Knox Theological Seminary and Lutheran Southern Theological Seminary and is currently the Director of Administration for the Palm Beach Maritime Museum & Academy.  

Keith is most proud of his family, including his wife who is an admissions and development director for an independent elementary and middle school, their older daughter, who recently received her “Wings of Gold” as a Naval Aviator, training to fly the MH-60S “Knighthawk,” and their younger daughter, a budding artist about to graduate from high school this spring.  He enjoys sailing, his 1968 Ford Galaxie convertible and golf.

Mr. Ullman has been a Director on the NAA Board since January 2009.

Director:  LCDR Theodore (Ted) R. Smith, NSCC

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Lieutenant Commander Smith joined the Board of Directors in November 2009. He is currently Regional Director in Region 13 (Pacific Northwest Area)

Director:  Mr. Barry Botsford

Mr. Botsford has been a member and contributor of the NAA since 2008.He spent 6 years in USN and was stationed as a Cadet with the USS Kitty Hawk Division out of Camden NJ leaving in 1964.  He is a retiree from Verizon, active in the Lions Club, past Zoning Board member, and a firefighter.

NSCC Liason:  LCDR Michael Campbell, NSCC

The NSCC's National Development Director serves as Liason between the NSCC National Headquarters/Board of Directors and the NAA.  The NSCC Liason is an ex-officio member of the Board and serves only in an advisory/liason capacity.

Mike Campbell is a Sea Cadet alumnus and member of the NAA.

 Regional Representative Administrator:  Mr. Mark H. Lassen

Mark joined the NAA in December 2008 and was appointed as Regional Representative Administrator in October 2009.  Mark served as a Cadet in the Division 911 at Great Lakes from 1960-1965 and currently resides in Wisconsin. Mark works as a Director of Quality for NAVTEQ.  Mark has accepted the awesome responsibility of coordinating the field representatives for the NAA throughout the U.s. and can be reached at mark.lassen@navteq.com.
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