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James Ronald Fisher

Captain US Navy (retired)

4226 Columbia Pike, Arlington, Virginia 22204

Phone 703-725-7849 FAX 703-521-0849

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-fisher-a65b7129

Email: Fisher@PeopleNow.org – Website: www.PeopleNow.org

Summary
Ron graduated with honors from the United States Naval Academy and had a distinguished Navy career standing first in his Submarine, Nuclear Propulsion and Engineering Duty Officer Schools. His awards include the Legion of Merit. The first half of his career included serving on a destroyer and four nuclear submarines and as Executive Officer (XO), the second in command, of both a nuclear attack and a ballistic missile submarine. During the second half of his Navy career he became an Engineering Duty Officer and served as the Submarine Type Desk Officer and Engineering Officer in a Naval Shipyard for four years mainly on refueling overhauls of nuclear submarines and in various positions in the Washington DC area mainly in engineering and logistics. After completing his Navy career, Ron founded and manages a very successful non-profit, fire safety and survivability organization described at www.dfpa.org. The most important thing Ron is working on is to help rapidly coordinate the implementation of the UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) as outlined on his organization PeopleNow.org’s website www.PeopleNow.org.


Personal Background and Primary Objective

Ron Fisher realizes that he has had a very lucky life and wishes the same, or better, for everyone in the world. Born into a wonderful family with eight brothers and four sisters in Bemis, Tennessee, a small cotton mill town, where the managers and owners truly cared for the workers and their families. Ron grew up learning the value of close family and friends. had a distinguished naval career and great jobs before, during and after the Navy and has four wonderful, smart, progressive sons - the three oldest are graduates of Princeton.

Ron is absolutely against all forms of wars, conflicts, and nuclear weapons which are illegal. He realizes that we have a world of abundance and it is senseless for anyone in the world to be hungry, homeless, without jobs at living wages, healthcare, etc. He is working with others to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), “the most important initiative in the world ever.” Plans to help coordinate the rapid implementation of the SDGs are described on Ron’s website - www.PeopleNow.org.

 

Education

 

Qualifications

Ron was qualified:

 

Military Training

·         Graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF)

 

Awards

During his navy career, Ron was awarded the Legion of Merit, the Navy Commendation Medal (two awards), the Navy Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal and the Navy Expeditionary Medal. Ron was the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Wilbur M. Landers Scholar in 1973

Experience

Since no one could go directly into submarines when his class graduated from USNA, Ron served on a destroyer as the Electronics Material Officer, Combat Information Center Officer and then the Operations Officer while still an Ensign, normally a full lieutenant’s job. Made two six-month Mediterranean deployments, one of which included a two month trip to the Persian Gulf.

Served on four nuclear submarines including as Executive Officer (XO), the second in command, of both a nuclear attack and a ballistic missile submarine. Made nine ballistic missile submarine patrols and six special operations on SSNs.

Education and training. Ron, as the Training Officer on the General Electric S3G nuclear propulsion plant at a Navy Training Unit, supervised about 25 enlisted and civilian instructors and trained and qualified hundreds of officers and enlisted to operate submarine nuclear propulsion plants. Earned a sub-specialty in Education and Training Management. While still on active duty in the Navy he helped found and was on the board of a Montessori School.

 

Legal Work. Ron’s collateral duties included serving as a Universal Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), Special Court-Martial Defense Counsel, Trial Counsel (prosecutor) and Summary Court-Martial Officer who essentially acts as the Judge, Defense Counsel, and Prosecutor for minor infractions of the UCMJ. From this work, Ron learned that getting to know about the accused, counseling and encouraging them, keeping them busy, holding them accountable, issuing suspended sentences and essentially negotiating with the accused worked much better than punishing or incarcerating them. Ron now knows that punishment, the death penalty, solitary confinement, etc. do not work and are counterproductive.

 

Second half of naval career.

Ron became an Engineering Duty Officer and worked in a Naval Shipyard for four years mainly on refueling overhauls of nuclear submarines and worldwide submarine repairs. His jobs included Submarine Type Desk Officer, Head of the Engineering Department and Project Manager for the first Extended Refit Period for a Ballistic Missile Submarine by a Naval Shipyard.

 

Also served in various positions in the Washington DC area including as the scheduler for Nuclear Submarine Overhauls, Refueling and Repair Work, Logistics Manager for the SSN 637 Class of Nuclear Submarines, Manager of Navy Shipyard Work-Loading and Pre-Award Surveys for New Construction Ships and as an Assistant Navy Inspector General mainly for Logistics where he helped inspect major Navy Commands

 

After his Navy career.

 

Ron founded and manages the Defense Fire Protection Association, described at dfpa@aol.com, a very successful non-profit, fire safety and survivability company. He was instrumental in developing and implementing the Navy Passive Fire Protection (PFP) program on Navy ships, markedly cutting fire losses, and fire-related costs by about 90 percent. Ron was also instrumental in eliminating fire suppressants and CFCs which were destroying the atmospheric Ozone layer that protected the earth from harmful ultra-violet radiation. 

 

In April 2001, five months before 9/11, Ron planned, arranged and hosted live fire, firefighting training sessions on Capitol Hill for 30 Washington, DC metropolitan firefighters who would have been the first responders to airplane crashes on Capitol Hill or at the White House.

 

In July 2001, under contract with the DOD, Ron conducted assessments and prepared a "Report of the Assessment of Vulnerabilities of Navy Ships to Multiple Threats and Hazards from Multiple Causes, Sources and Delivery Methods" that concluded it is impossible to protect ships, aircraft, buildings, etc. from determined terrorists.

Ron was an original member of the National Advisory Committee of the Congressional Fire Services Institute which is very active in Legislation & Advocacy. He served on it for over 15 years.

 

Ron also founded and manages Veterans Sales and Services, a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business, described at www.VetsSS.org.

 

Since 1972, Ron has been very active as a Unitarian Universalist (UU). He taught Religious Education to children for years and coauthored and jointly taught a course on Nuclear Weapon Disarmament. He has been a member of ACLU, VFP, UUSJ, UUSC, the Global Justice Group, the Peace Initiative Networks, and the Global Peace through Justice (GPtJ) Network.

 

Ron ran for State Delegate and Senator and the U.S. Congress to learn how to improve elections. See http://www.ronfisherforcongress.com.

 

The most important thing Ron has done is to create and manage PeopleNow.org to combine and help rapidly implement the UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) and Green New Deal (GND) as outlined on his websites www.PeopleNow.org

 

Ron extensive education. experiences and knowledge, particularly being on, working on and overhauling nuclear submarines, his breadth and depth of military and technical knowledge and his unflinching desire to make the world a better place uniquely qualifies Ron to play a major role planning the implementation of the UN SDGs worldwide.