Commander Thomas E. McNeil

About Commander McNeil

Commander McNeil (T-Mac) is a native of St Louis, Mo. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Morehouse College and commissioned through the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps in August of 2005.

CDR McNeil’s operational assignments include a division officer tour with VAW-124 where he completed one deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. He served as a training officer with VAW-112 from 2014 to 2016 where he completed one Western Pacific deployment. He was later assigned as a department head on board VAW-125 – part of Carrier Air Wing Five and Forward Deployed Naval Forces – from 2017 to 2019, where he served as quality assurance officer, administration officer, and operations officer, in three Western Pacific deployments. He has accumulated over 2,500 hours in the E-2 Hawkeye.

Ashore, CDR McNeil has served as the training officer at the Carrier Airborne Early Warning Weapons School (CAEWWS) – a department of the Navy Aviation Warfighting Development Center (NAWDC) in Fallon, Nevada. At US Transportation Command, he has served as robotics process automation (RPA) coordinator, Financial Management (FM) data strategy coordinator, and requirements prioritization coordinator as part of the J8 Directorate, and Headquarters COVID-19 Response Cell Entry Control Point lead. T-Mac’s previous assignment was the Fires Officer at US Seventh Fleet.

CDR McNeil has been awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Air Medal, and Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.