Virginia’s Congressional District 2 (CD 2) spans Williamsburg, Virginia Beach, parts of Norfolk, and traces the northern reaches of Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval base.
Many of the 82,000 active-duty sailors stationed on the sprawling base’s 15 installations live within CD 2, which also includes one of the nation’s most dense populations of military retirees—especially U.S. Navy veterans.
And if there’s one thing sailors know, whether they served in the surface fleet, in naval air, or in submarine squadrons, it’s that chief petty officers, the highest of the enlisted ranks, are the ones in the sea service who put the “snap to” into getting things done right, right now….