Command Master Chief
CMDCM Art Murodov
Master Chief Murodov is a native of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He graduated Franklin D. Roosevelt High School, in Brooklyn, New York, in 2000 and immediately realized his dream of serving in the Navy by taking an oath of enlistment and attending Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois.
Ashore, Murodov graduated from Aviation Machinist Mate (AD) ‘A’ School in Pensacola, Florida, and was assigned to Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD) Sigonella, Spain. He later cross-rated and graduated from Cryptologic Technician Interpretive (CTI) “A” School at Defense Language Institute, in Monterey, California, where he served a Division Chief and a Senior Enlisted Advisor at the Persian Farsi Language School. Murodov also completed a tour with the National Security Agency/Central Security Service Georgia.
His sea duty assignments include surface, subsurface, and airborne operations based out of Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC) Georgia and NIOC Bahrain. As well as a Command Master Chief (CMC) tour with USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) Blue.
He is currently serving as the Patrol and Reconnaissance Squadron (VP) 30 Command Master Chief, located aboard Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida.
Murodov is a graduate of the U.S. Navy Senior Enlisted Academy (Class 209/Gold), and the CMC/COB Course (Class 207). His personal awards include the Air Strike Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy Commendation Medal (three awards), and Navy Achievement Medal (two awards). He earned a bachelor’s degree in Persian Farsi and Russian from Excelsior University and a Masters in Organizational Leadership from Brandman University.