Greg Caro joined R3 in 2018 and is a Project Manager supporting the Maritime Expeditionary Security Force (MESF) portfolio involving initiatives standardizing the force-wide MESF Training Continuum Manual, force-wide tactics, techniques, and procedures, warfighting operating procedures, and training courses of instruction. His cross-functional and geographically dispersed team focuses on the development of MESF warfighting products that provided standardized processes and procedures geared toward major combat operations. His team’s recent focus has been on standardizing MESF training and readiness standards for Force Generation aligned with the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command’s (NECC) new Force Design.

Greg is a 24-year Navy Veteran with experience in Naval Aviation, Undersea Warfare (Antisubmarine and Maritime Mine Warfare), and Operational and Strategic Staff Planning. His tours of duty include roles as Fleet Replacement Pilot/ATO Phase Instructor at Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 41; Assistant Air Officer and Officer of the Deck underway in USS PELELIU (LHA-5); NATOPS Officer, Aviation Safety Officer, SH-60B Helicopter Detachment OIC, Training and Operations Officer at Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 49; Director of Personnel Recovery and Deputy Chief of Combat Plans at the Joint Air Forces Component Commander at the Air Force’s 613th Air and Space Operations Center; Detachment OIC at Tactical Air Control Squadron 11; Plans Officer at Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC) Det Point Loma.

Greg earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering for the University of Southern California and a Master of Science in Physical Oceanography (subspecialty in Undersea Warfare) at the Naval Postgraduate School.