Lieutenant Commander Jeremy Duke, U.S. Navy, military lecturer, earned a B.A. in education from Touro University (2004) and an M.B.A. in financial management from the Naval Postgraduate School (2017). LCDR Duke first entered the U.S. Navy as an enlisted hospital corpsman (navy medic), and served for eight years prior to being commissioned through Officer Candidate School as a naval supply corps officer. He has served as head of the Supply Department onboard USS ARDENT (MCM 12), USS CHIEF (MCM-14) and USS PHILIPPINE SEA (CG 58). He also completed a tour on the USNS SACAGAWEA (T-AKE-2) as the assistant officer in charge. LCDR Duke has had six sea service deployments to the Mediterranean, and Persian Gulf. In 2009 he was selected to augment the army as a contracting officer to Iraq, where he wrote contracts in support of combat operations in both Balad Air Base and COB Speicher. 

In his tour prior to the Naval Postgraduate School he was sent on exchange to the Royal Navy (United Kingdom) through the personnel exchange program as a course instructor for the basic logistic officer course at Defense Maritime Logistics School. While there, he taught basic naval logistics to newly-commissioned logistics officers, with an emphasis on U.S. aircraft carrier logistics in order to prepare new logistics officers for the upcoming new Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier. His personal decorations include the Joint Commendation Medal (two awards), U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three awards), U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps Achievement Medal (five awards), and various campaign and unit commendations. LCDR Duke joined the DRMI faculty in January of 2018.