USS Constitution
Dec 10, 2019
CPT Christopher Melhuish, USS Constitution
USS Constitution

Christopher Allan Melhuish was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1957 and raised in North Africa. He was educated in the United Kingdom where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Physical Geography. He also served three years in Britain’s Territorial Army as a Special Forces radio operator. Melhuish settled in the United States and received his commission at Officer Candidate School Newport, Rhode Island in November 1979. He was captain of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet’s rifle team. His subsequent sea duty assignments included service in a frigate, three destroyers, two amphibious ships, and a Cruiser-Destroyer Group staff embarked in an aircraft carrier. Melhuish attended the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, graduating with distinction in 1995. He graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia in 1996. Melhuish was the lead planner for NATO’s largest live exercise, “Strong Resolve,” while assigned to the NATO’s Supreme Allied Command, Atlantic.