# Richard W. Butler

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{{Short description|U.S. Navy aviator and officer}}
{{for|persons of a similar name|Richard Butler (disambiguation)}}
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| name                = Richard W. Butler
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| birth_name          = Richard Wallace Butler<ref name=promotion/>
| birth_date          = {{birth year and age|1959}}<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DD8BVZeVFP4C&pg=PA90 |title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy on Active Duty |date=1990-10-01 |page=90 |publisher=Bureau of Naval Personnel |access-date=2021-06-21}}</ref>
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'''Richard W. Butler''' is a retired aviator and officer in the [United States Navy](/source/United_States_Navy).<ref name=MiamiHerald2016-11-17/><ref name=UsnOffBioRButler/>

He was the commandant of [Joint Task Force Guantanamo](/source/Joint_Task_Force_Guantanamo) from July 2013 to July 2014.<ref name=MiamiHerald2016-11-17/>

Butler went on record as supporting [President](/source/United_States_President) [Barack Obama](/source/Barack_Obama)'s plan to close the detention camp.<ref name=AlJazeera2013-12-12/>

Butler later served as the commanding officer of [Carrier Strike Group 4](/source/Commander_Strike_Force_Training_Atlantic) before retiring from active duty in 2016.<ref name=UsnOffBioRButler/>

Earlier in his career, Butler commanded [Strike Fighter Squadron 25](/source/VFA-25) and [Carrier Air Wing 14](/source/Carrier_Air_Wing_Fourteen).<ref name=UsnOffBioRButler/>

Butler is a 1982 graduate of the [University of Kentucky](/source/University_of_Kentucky). He later earned a master's degree from the [National War College](/source/National_War_College).<ref name=UsnOffBioRButler/>

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=

http://www.atacusa.com/bios/richard_butler.html

<ref name=promotion>
{{cite web
| url        = https://www.congress.gov/nomination/103rd-congress/673
| title      = PN673 — Navy
| publisher  = [U.S. Congress](/source/United_States_Congress)
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| date       = 1993-10-25
| accessdate = 2020-02-26
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<ref name=MiamiHerald2016-11-17>
{{cite news
| url         = http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article115470333.html
| title       = Navy sending new commander to run President Trump's Guantánamo prison
| publisher   = [Miami Herald](/source/Miami_Herald)
| author      = Carol Rosenberg
| author-link = Carol Rosenberg
| date        = 2016-11-17
| accessdate  = 2016-11-17
}}
</ref>

<ref name=AlJazeera2013-12-12>
{{cite news
| url         = http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/12/guantanamo-commandersupportsclosingdownfacility.html
| title       = New Guantanamo commander supports closing facility
| publisher   = [Al Jazeera](/source/Al_Jazeera_Media_Network)
| author      = Jason Leopold
| author-link = Jason Leopold
| date        = 2013-12-12
| location    = [Guantanamo Bay](/source/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp)
| accessdate  = 2016-11-17
| quote       = In an interview with Al Jazeera, Navy Rear Adm. Richard Butler, commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo, said he agreed with Obama's pledge to shut down the detention facility, which in a month will mark 12 years since the first prisoners arrived, and has so far cost taxpayers $5 billion.
}}
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<ref name=UsnOffBioRButler>
{{cite news
| url          = https://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio_ret.asp?bioID=643
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20170525210519/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio_ret.asp?bioID=643
| url-status   = dead
| archive-date = May 25, 2017
| title        = United States Navy biography: Rear Admiral Richard W. Butler
| publisher    = [United States Navy](/source/United_States_Navy)
| date         = 2016-03-02
| accessdate   = 2020-02-26
}}
</ref>
}}

==External links==
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Category:1959 births
Category:Living people
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:University of Kentucky alumni
Category:United States Naval Aviators
Category:National War College alumni
Category:Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Category:United States Navy admirals

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