Forrester, Kelly, CPO

Electronics Warfare Technician
 
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Current Service Status
USN Retired
Current/Last Rank
Chief Petty Officer
Current/Last Primary NEC
EW-1781-Electronics Warfare Technician (Advanced Application)
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Electronics Warfare Technician
Primary Unit
2002-2006, CTT-1781, Commander Operational Test and Evaluation Force (COMOPTEVFOR/COTF)
Previously Held NEC
EW-0000-Electronics Warfare Operator
EW-1733-Electronics Warfare Systems Technician (AN/SLQ-32(V)2)
MA-9545-Law Enforcement Specialist
CTT-1781-Electronics Warfare Technician (Advanced Application)
Service Years
1986 - 2006
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Operation Desert Storm
Order of the Ditch
Order of the Rock
Suez Canal
EW-Electronics Warfare Technician
Five Hash Marks

 Official Badges 

U.S. Navy Chief Master-at-Arms U.S. Navy Master-at-Arms US Navy Retired 20 US Navy Honorable Discharge




 Unofficial Badges 

Navy Chief Initiated Order of the Arctic Circle (Bluenose) Electronic Warfare Award For Excellence Command & Control Excellence Award

Efficiency Excellence Award


 Military Associations and Other Affiliations
Fleet Reserve Association (FRA)Association of Old CrowsNorfolk County Historical Society of Chesapeake, VA
  2000, Fleet Reserve Association (FRA) - Assoc. Page
  2007, Association of Old Crows - Assoc. Page
  2018, Norfolk County Historical Society of Chesapeake, VA


 Additional Information
What are you doing now:

I am a Military Analyst, working for AVW Technologies, Inc. located in Chesapeake, VA. I interface with COMOPTEVFOR, Naval Research Lab (NRL), Department of Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), John Hopkins University Applied Phisics Lab (JHUAPL), Marine Corps, Army and Air Force. I am currently working on the JECP.

   
Other Comments:

Forced to be a CTT by the folks in DC, but EW by the grace of God.

   

 Remembrance Profiles -  1 Sailor Remembered


Gulf War/Defense of Saudi Arabia
From Month/Year
August / 1990
To Month/Year
January / 1991

Description
In 1990, fellow Arab Gulf states refused to endorse Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's plan to cut production and raise the price of oil, leaving him frustrated and paranoid. Iraq had incurred a mountain of debt during its war with Iran that had lasted for most of the previous decade, and the Iraqi President felt that his Arab brothers were conspiring against him by refusing to raise oil prices. Therefore, after weeks of massing troops along the Iraq-Kuwait border and accusing Kuwait of various crimes, Hussein sent seven divisions of the Iraqi Army into Kuwait in the early morning hours of 2 August 1990. The invasion force of 120,000 troops and 2,000 tanks quickly overwhelmed Iraq's neighbor to the south, allowing Hussein to declare, in less than a week, that Kuwait was his nation's nineteenth province. The United Nations responded quickly, passing a series of resolutions that condemned the invasion, called for an immediate withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait, imposed a financial and trade embargo on Iraq, and declared the annexation void.

Regarding Iraq's actions as a threat to a vital interest of the US, namely the oil production capability of the Persian Gulf region, President George Bush ordered warplanes and ground forces to Saudi Arabia after obtaining King Fahd's approval. Iraqi troops had begun to mass along the Saudi border, breaching it at some points, and indicating the possibility that Hussein's forces would continue south into Saudi Arabia's oil fields. Operation DESERT SHIELD, the US military deployment to first defend Saudi Arabia grew rapidly to become the largest American deployment since the Southeast Asia Conflict. The Gulf region was within US Central Command's (CENTCOM) area of responsibility. Eventually, 30 nations joined the military coalition arrayed against Iraq, with a further 18 countries supplying economic, humanitarian, or other type of assistance.

Carriers in the Gulf of Oman and the Red Sea responded, US Air Force interceptors deployed from bases in the United States, and airlift transports carried US Army airborne troopers to Saudi Arabia. Navy prepositioning ships rushed equipment and supplies for an entire marine brigade from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to the gulf. During the next six months the United States and its allies built up a powerful force in the Arabian peninsula. The navy also began maritime intercept operations in support of a US-led blockade and United Nations sanctions against Iraq.

Coalition forces, specifically XVIII Airborne Corps and VII Corps, used deception cells to create the impression that they were going to attack near the Kuwaiti boot heel, as opposed to the "left hook" strategy actually implemented. XVIII Airborne Corps set up "Forward Operating Base Weasel" near the boot heel, consisting of a phony network of camps manned by several dozen soldiers. Using portable radio equipment, cued by computers, phony radio messages were passed between fictitious headquarters. In addition, smoke generators and loudspeakers playing tape-recorded tank and truck noises were used, as were inflatable Humvees and helicopters.

On 17 January 1991, when it became clear that Saddam would not withdraw, Desert Shield became Desert Storm.
   
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
August / 1990
To Month/Year
January / 1991
 
Last Updated:
Mar 16, 2020
   
Personal Memories
   
My Photos From This Battle or Operation
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