Commander Garrett Moynihan, U.S. Navy is a Nacogdoches High School and Stephen F. Austin State University graduate. After high school he enlisted in the Navy in 1974 and retired in 2011. He was trained as an Electrician's Mate and served on the USS Voge (FF-1047), a Fast Frigate. On August 28, 1976, Voge collided with a Soviet nuclear submarine during its Mediterranean Sea deployment. Upon separation from active duty in 1978, Commander Moynihan affiliated with the US Naval Reserve in Tyler, Texas and attended SFA. He served with various shipboard units in San Diego, California, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After graduation from SFA, he was commissioned an Ensign in 1985 and affiliated with various Reserve Intelligence Units onboard Naval Air Station, Dallas, Texas. HIs Reserve active duty intelligence assignments included work at the Fleet Intelligence Center, Pearl Harbor, along with military exercises in Key West, Florida, South Korea, Thailand, Japan, Panama, and Germany. He was mobilized by Presidential authority for Operation Desert Shield / Storm in 1990 and twice for Operation Enduring Freedom in 2002 and 2005 and served on Joint and Interagency Task Force assignments in Saudi Arabia and Puerto Rico. Commander Moynihan's civilian retirement in 2021 included employment with the City of Garland, Texas, and as a Maritime Planner with the Department of the Army at U.S. Southern Command in Miami, Florida. Commander Moynihan has two sons; one who is in the Air Force Reserve, and three grandchildren. He is married to the former Carey Hataluk of St. Catherine, Ontario, Canada and makes his home on a quiet lake near Frankston, Texas.