2021 Master Chief Petty Officer
Washington, D.C. — American Samoa’s Josephine Tauoa has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Delbert D. Black Leadership Award, July 6. She is the Command Master Chief of USS Chung Hoon (DDG 93), a guided-missile destroyer.
Tauoa was selected from a...

![Command Master Chief Josephine Tauoa, from American Samoa, poses for a portrait in main machinery room number one aboard the guided-missile destroyer Chung-Hoon while underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations. She is the Navy’s first Samoan Master Chief and was recently honored with a prestigious leadership award. [U.S. Navy photo: Specialist 1st Class Devin M. Langer] Command Master Chief Josephine Tauoa,](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/cmc_josephine_taunoa_web.jpg?itok=uTzxfpGC)