Vice Admiral Sir Adrian James Johns KCB, CBE, ADC, is a senior officer in the Royal Navy and was until recently the Second Sea Lord. He was succeeded in this post by Vice-Admiral Alan Massey in a ceremony aboard HMS Victory on 15 July 2008. Massey was CO of HMS Ark Royal during Operation Telic in 2003. He is expected to become Governor of Gibraltar in autumn 2009. Educated at a grammar school in Cornwall and then Imperial College London he joined the Royal Navy in 1973.

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  • Vice Admiral Sir Adrian James Johns KCB, CBE, ADC, is a senior officer in the Royal Navy and was until recently the Second Sea Lord. He was succeeded in this post by Vice-Admiral Alan Massey in a ceremony aboard HMS Victory on 15 July 2008. Massey was CO of HMS Ark Royal during Operation Telic in 2003. He is expected to become Governor of Gibraltar in autumn 2009. Educated at a grammar school in Cornwall and then Imperial College London he joined the Royal Navy in 1973. He was promoted lieutenant on 1 September 1975 (with seniority from 1 January 1975). After his initial postings he trained as a helicopter pilot, serving with 824 Naval Air Squadron as a Westland Sea King pilot aboard HMS Ark Royal, before becoming a flying instructor in 1979. His first command was HMS Yarnton in Hong Kong in 1981. He was promoted lieutenant commander on 16 October 1982. After holding various naval posts, he was promoted commander on 30 June 1988, and then commanded the frigates HMS Juno and HMS Ariadne between 1988 and 1990. He was promoted captain on 31 December 1994. In between various appointments at the Ministry of Defence he held command of HMS Campbeltown from 1995 to 1996. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours, and later that year he took command of HMS Ocean which in Spring 2003 was deployed to Iraq. For this service he received a Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service, gazetted on 31 October 2003. He relinquished command of Ocean with his promotion to rear admiral on 27 May 2003. He became Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff in May 2003 and then served as Rear Admiral Fleet Air Arm from October that year. He was promoted vice admiral and appointed Second Sea Lord and Commander in Chief of Naval Home Command in October 2005. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2008 New Year Honours. On 9 June 2009, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced that Johns will succeed Sir Robert Fulton, as Governor of Gibraltar in autumn 2009.
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