Kirk S Lippold was born on April 29,1959 and is a former US Navy officer.
11 Facts About Kirk Lippold
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Kirk Lippold is a 1981 graduate of the United States Naval Academy.
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Kirk Lippold received a Masters of Science in Systems Engineering from the US Naval Postgraduate School, which he attended from 1987 to 1989.
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Kirk Lippold graduated from United States Army Command and General Staff College in 1994 and from Joint Forces Staff College in 2001.
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Kirk Lippold retired as a commander in May 2007 at the age of 48 during a ceremony at the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, DC.
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Kirk Lippold is a senior military fellow with Military Families United, an advocacy group opposed to the release of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
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On June 22,2009, The Washington Times published an op-ed by Kirk Lippold that was critical of the Barack Obama administration, for not showing enough sympathy to American victims of terror.
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Kirk Lippold asserted that the families of the victims of terror should play a role in deciding which terror suspects should be tried, and in which kind of court they should be tried.
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On February 4,2010, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Kirk Lippold was considering a run for US Senate in Nevada against Harry Reid.
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Kirk Lippold lost to Mark Amodei and declined to run as an Independent.
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On October 12,2015, the fifteenth anniversary of the bombing of USS Cole, Kirk Lippold appeared on Your World Cavuto and repeated his call from 2009 for justice for the Cole victims.