New commander at SUPSHIP

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. – Capt. Joseph M. Tuite relieved Capt. Stephen W. Mitchell as Supervisor of Shipbuilding (SUPSHIP) Gulf Coast in a ceremony at the Ocean Springs Civic Center March 28. Tuite previously served at Supervisor of Shipbuilding Gulf Coast (SSGC) in Pascagoula, Miss., as LHD 8 production officer from June 2003 to February 2006, and then returned to work with SSGC in March 2010 as program manager’s representative for the LPD program. He assumed the position of SSGC executive officer in July 2012. Mitchell is retiring after a 30-year career in the Navy. (Source: Seapower magazine, 03/31/14)