Stephen Clarey
American rear admiral
Stephen Scott Clarey (born 9 July 1940) is a retired United States Navy rear admiral (lower half) who commanded the U.S. Maritime Prepositioning Force during Operation Desert Shield and the Pacific Fleet/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade Amphibious Task Force during Operation Desert Storm. He retired from the navy in August 1992 after thirty years of service.
Early life and career
Clarey was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on 9 July 1940, into a navy family, the son of the late Admiral Bernard A. Clarey and Jean Scott Clarey. His father Admiral "Chick" Clarey (USNA ’34) was a highly decorated submarine officer during World War II and served as the Vice Chief of Naval Operations and Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet during the late 1960s and early 1970s. His maternal grandfather Captain Leon Scott (USNA ’15) was a submarine commander in the 1920s, assigned to the Asiatic Squadron in the Philippines.
Departing Honolulu shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Clarey led the life of a service junior, moving often and attending thirteen different elementary and secondary schools.
He graduated from Punahou School in 1958 in Honolulu and then Williams College in 1962 in Massachusetts, where he was a member of the Delta Psi/Saint Anthony Hall fraternity, and a team manager for four years for Robert Muir, the U.S. swimming coach during the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
He joined the navy immediately after graduating from Williams and obtained his commission in October 1962 from Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, where he was the regimental adjutant. His son, tennis journalist Christopher Clarey, was born in Newport.
Vietnam service
During his early Navy years Clarey served in destroyers Hollister (DD-788) and Bigelow (DD-942), deploying to the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Western Pacific.
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