Roy Kitchener

{{short description|U.S. Navy admiral}}

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| birth_place = Trumbull, Connecticut{{Cite web|url=https://www.navy.mil/Leadership/Biographies/BioDisplay/Article/2236265/vice-admiral-roy-kitchener/|title=Vice Admiral Roy Kitchener|website=www.navy.mil}}

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| allegiance = United States

| branch = United States Navy

| serviceyears = 1984–2023

| rank = Vice Admiral

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| commands = Naval Surface Forces
Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet
Naval Surface Forces Atlantic
Expeditionary Strike Group 2
USS Princeton
USS Higgins
USS John Paul Jones

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Roy Ian Kitchener{{cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/103rd-congress/1785 |title=PN1785 — 103rd Congress (1993-1994) — Navy |date=September 28, 1994 |website=www.congress.gov |access-date=May 23, 2021}} (born 1962){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DD8BVZeVFP4C&pg=PA104 |title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy on Active Duty |date=October 1, 1990 |page=104 |publisher=Bureau of Naval Personnel |access-date=June 5, 2021}} is a retired United States Navy vice admiral who last served as the Commander of the Naval Surface Forces and Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. He previously served as the Commander of the Naval Surface Forces Atlantic.{{Cite web|url=https://news.usni.org/2020/08/03/vice-adm-kitchener-takes-command-of-naval-surface-forces-as-vice-adm-brown-retires|title=Vice Adm. Kitchener Takes Command of Naval Surface Forces as Vice Adm. Brown Retires|date=August 3, 2020|website=USNI News}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.dvidshub.net/image/2908253/rear-adm-roy-kitchener-visits-jtf-matthew|title=Rear Adm. Roy Kitchener visits JTF Matthew|website=DVIDS}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/130695|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806013602/https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/130695|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 6, 2020|title=Kitchener assumes command of Pacific Fleet surface force|first=COMNAVSURFPAC Public|last=Affairs|website=www.cpf.navy.mil}} Kitchener earned a B.A. degree in political science from Unity College in 1984 and later received an M.A. degree in national security affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School specializing in Western Hemisphere studies.