thumb|Rear Adm. Reimann in 1990
Robert Theodore Reimann Sr. (August 17, 1936 – June 29, 2014)
Reimann's first assignment was aboard the destroyer escort Gainard (DD-706). He served as executive officer on the destroyer escort Van Voorhis (DE-1028) and the destroyer . Reimann was given command of the destroyer escort from July 1970 to January 1972 and the destroyer escort Garcia (DE-1040) from April 1972 to August 1973.
After attending the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and serving a shore assignment in Coronado, California, Reimann became executive officer of the guided missile cruiser Chicago (CG-11).
thumb|Rear Adm. Robert T. Reimann demonstrates a prototype gasket for shipboard hatches in 1991.
As a flag officer, Reimann commanded Pearl Harbor Naval Base in 1987, was Naval Sea Systems Command's deputy commander for surface combatants in 1989, and was the deputy assistant chief of naval operations for surface warfare in 1991.
At NAVSEA, Reimann helped oversee the 1988–89 repair of the guided missile frigate by Bath Iron Works in Portland, Maine, after it was nearly sunk by an Iranian mine during Operation Earnest Will.
Reimann received the Distinguished Service Medal,
He married Iris Johnson, with whom he had two children (Robert Reimann Jr. and Lynne Reimann), and had four granddaughters. After his death in 2014, Reimann Sr. was interred at Arlington National Cemetery.