Rear Admiral Stephen C. Evans, USN, commander of Naval Service Training Command, will visit Savannah State University on Thursday, September 1, from 7 – 11 a.m. Evans will speak with the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps midshipmen and staff, meet with active duty staff and civilians and visit with SSU administration.

Evans is the son of a United States Marine and a native of Beaufort, South Carolina. He graduated from The Citadel in 1986 earning a Bachelor of Arts degree.

He made numerous deployments to the Arabian Gulf, Mediterranean, North Atlantic and Western Pacific Areas of Operation earning the Battle Excellence Award in every ship assigned. He took command of Naval Service Training Command in July 2015.

He holds a master's degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College and was a 2014-2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI Fellow.