Command Master Chief
CMDCM(AW/SW) Michael J. Taylor
Command Master Chief Michael Taylor is a native of Wewahitchka, Florida, and enlisted in the United States Navy in August 2000. He completed recruit training in Great Lakes, Illinois, followed by Mineman “A” School at Mine Warfare Training Center in Ingleside, Texas.
His sea assignments include forward deployed tours with USS Raven (MHC 61) and USS Guardian (MCM 5); individual augmentee tours to Iraq and Afghanistan; and service aboard USS Freedom (LCS 1), USS Independence (LCS 2), USS Fort Worth (LCS 3), USS Coronado (LCS 4), USS Sioux City (LCS 11), USS Billings (LCS 15), USS Little Rock (LCS 9), and Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 50.
Ashore, he served at Navy Support Activity Panama City, Florida, and Naval Munitions Command Unit Charleston, South Carolina. He has completed multiple Western Pacific and Persian Gulf deployments supporting Operation Southern Watch, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring
Freedom, and has deployed throughout the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and South America, conducting operations and port visits in both hemispheres.
Taylor now serves as the Command Master Chief of Helicopter Maritime Strike Wing Atlantic.
Taylor holds a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and a master’s degrees in strategic leadership and business administration from the University of West Virginia. He is also a graduate of the Senior Enlisted Academy and the Command Master Chief/Chief of the Boat Course in Newport, Rhode Island.
His personal awards include the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (two awards), the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (two awards), the Combat Action Ribbon, the Army Combat Action Badge, and various unit and campaign awards.