Captain Dan Cobian

Bio

Captain Dan Cobian is a native of San Diego, CA. Enlisting as an Electronics Technician (Submarine) in 1988, he served onboard USS HADDOCK (SSN 621) where he was accepted into the BOOST commissioning program and earned an NROTC scholarship. He graduated in 1996 from the University of San Diego with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics and later from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, where he earned a Masters in Financial Management.

Sea tours include Auxiliaries and Electrical Officer in USS Fort Fisher (LSD 40), Main Propulsion Assistant and Fire Control Officer in USS Princeton (CG 59), Weapons Officer and Combat Systems Officer in USS Stethem (DDG 63), Executive Officer and Commanding Officer in USS Spruance (DDG 111), Deputy Commodore and then Commodore of Destroyer Squadron 21.

During this tour he served as the Sea Combat Commander for the John C. Stennis and Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Groups and served as the Commander of CTG 130.1 embarked on USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) in support of the US Navy’s response to COVID-19.

Ashore, Captain Cobian has served as the Executive Assistant to the Director, Maritime Domain Awareness (OPNAV N5MDA), Executive Assistant to the Director, Strategy and Policy (OPNAV N5), and then as the Navy Fellow at RAND Corporation in Washington DC (Federal Executive Fellowship Program), Deputy Executive Assistant, Flag Secretary and Flag Aide to the Commander at Commander Naval Surface Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet, the Headquarters N5 (Doctrine and Tactics) Branch Head and then Executive Assistant to the Commander Naval Surface and Mine Warfare Development Center (SMWDC), and most recently he served as the Commanding Officer of Expeditionary Warfare Training Group, Pacific (EWTGPAC).

Captain Cobian assumed command of the Naval ROTC Unit at University of San Diego/San Diego State University in May 2024. Captain Cobian is married to the former Ms. Lilian Mamou from Spring Valley, CA and has 3 children- Danica, Lucas, and Hailey.

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