Charles S. Fields III

Mr. Charles Fields III (CW3(R);US Army) is a retired (1 April 2022) Ammunition Technician (MOS 890A;active duty) with over 22 years of experience and expertise in multiple facets of safety and logistics management. Mr. Fields is currently serving as a Level 2 Explosives Safety Specialist and a Level 2 Explosives Safety Site Planner with Naval Ordnance Safety and Security Activity (NOSSA), Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Department of the Navy (DON). He is currently responsible for leading and supervising Shipboard and Ashore Explosives Safety Inspections, to include all variants of naval vessels, ammunition supply activities, naval munitions commands, joint installations, and research, development, testing and evaluation (RDT&E) locations with an area of responsibility (AOR) ranging from Texas to Africa. He is also responsible for training and mentoring officers, senior enlisted, and civilians in all aspects of ammunition management, prioritization, and operations both aboard ships and ashore. He is also a proven and successful technical writer, drafting multiple approved and published submissions of DoD and DON directives, regulations, instructions, and manuals while concurrently providing recommendations and policy guidance to senior Navy leadership on munitions policy, doctrine, and best practices. CW3(R) Fields was dual slotted in his last active duty assignment, serving as Joint Munitions Advisor for US Southern Command (SC) J-4 (SCJ4), providing joint munitions expertise, analytics, explosive safety/risk analysis mitigation and course of action development in support of (ISO) training, combat, contingency, and emergency planning support, including pre-positioned stocks, to the Combatant Commander, while simultaneously representing SC in all aspects of munitions processes, to include joint unified land, maritime, and air operations planning development; he was also the lead Class V strategic planner and doctrine development technical writer for SC, with oversight of all SC Component Command Class V operational plans, to include 12th Air Force, US 4th Fleet, Marine Forces South, US Army South, and Special Operations Command South when in support of the SC Campaign and Theater Sustainment Plans. CW3(R) Fields' second concurrent duty position was Chief, Munitions Section, Material Management Branch, Distribution Management Center, 167th Theater Sustainment Command, where he planned and managed all aspects of ammunition operations, movement, and sustainment for all military service components in the SC AOR, covering 31 countries including their Security Cooperation Offices and Embassy locations. CW3(R) Fields is also an expert in developing and implementing safety programs while concurrently evaluating and optimizing plans, planning and executing joint exercises and operations, and interpreting and implementing DoD, Department of Transportation (DoT), NATO, and international transportation standards, including hazardous materials inspections, mishap investigations, operations, storage management, munitions acquisitions, incident emergency response, developing munitions and armament support, and requisition requirements. Mr. Fields is a well-respected leader in the field of safety, offering well over a decade of expertise in operational plan development requiring munitions, explosive safety/quantity distance (ESQD) implementation, analyzing safety data, identification of systemic-level safety matters, leading coordinating efforts and safety protocol implementation on multiple continents. Mr. Fields is also well traveled; in his almost 22 years of active service to the US military, has be deployed to, stationed at or collaborated with over 36 NATO, EU, CARICOM and Union of South American countries while spending over a quarter of his career serving overseas. He is known throughout the world for his forward-thinking approach to sustainment, logistics and safety management, leadership and problem-solving proficiency, as represented by his permanent status as a Demonstrated Master Logistician by the International Society of Logistics, Ordnance Order of Samuel L. Sharpe as a Master Gunner of Ordnance, and multiple OSHA instructor and safety certifications. Mr. Fields looks forward to continuing to lead and serve within Naval Safety Command by supervising, teaching, coaching, and mentoring officers, senior NCOs and civilians alike as a while ensuring the Navy is always at the highest levels mission readiness and operational capability to effectively and efficiently support any mission at any time IOT providing timely and relative input to the Echelon II commands, other stakeholders and representing the Navy in coordinating efforts across the DoD and other federal agencies.