During World War I, Kimmel served as a squadron gunnery officer in U.S. In 1915 he was briefly appointed as an aide to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D.
Kimmel then served in the United States occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, during which he was wounded in April 1914.
In 1907 he was assigned to the USS Georgia during its participation in the around-the-world cruise of the Great White Fleet. From 1906 to 1907 he served on several battleships in the Caribbean. One of his classmates was future Fleet Admiral Willam Halsey. Kimmel graduated in 1904 from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Kinkaid, with whom he had three sons: Manning, Thomas K. He married Dorothy Kinkaid (1890–1975), sister of Admiral Thomas C. Kimmel was nicknamed variously "Kim", "Hubbie" and "Mustafa", the last being a reference to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, due to the similar homophone between "Kimmel" and "Kemal". Husband Kimmel was born in Henderson, Kentucky, on February 26, 1882, to Sibella "Sibbie" Lambert Kimmel (1846–1919) and Major Manning Marius Kimmel (1832–1916), a graduate of West Point who fought with the Union side during the American Civil War before switching allegiance to the Confederate States Army to fight alongside his neighbors. The United States Senate voted to restore Kimmel's permanent rank to four stars in 1999, but President Clinton did not act on the resolution, and neither have any of his successors. He was removed from that command after the attack, in December 1941, and was reverted to his permanent two-star rank of rear admiral due to no longer holding a four-star assignment. Husband Edward Kimmel (Febru– May 14, 1968) was a United States Navy four-star admiral who was the commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT) during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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