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Last Rank
Rear Admiral Upper Half
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Last Primary NEC
111X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare
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Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer
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Primary Unit
1971-1972, COMCRUDESPAC
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Service Years
1935 - 1972
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Personal Details
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Home State
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Year of Birth
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This Military Service Page was created/owned by
Kent Weekly (SS/DSV) (DBF), EMCS
to remember
Kinney, Sheldon, RADM USN(Ret).
If you knew or served with this Sailor and have additional information or photos to support this Page, please leave a message for the Page Administrator(s) HERE.
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Home Town
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Last Address
Annapolis, MD
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Date of Passing
Dec 11, 2004 |
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Location of Interment
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Last Known Activity
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Other Comments:
His brother was killed at Pearl Harbor on the USS Arizona (BB-39) link: Kinney, Gilbert, PO2
He also recieved the following foreign awards:
Order of the Patriotic War, First Class from the U.S.S.R.
(for perilous convoy protection runs to Murmansk and the northern ports of Russia)
Gold Cross of Merit from the Polish Government in Exile
(for spiriting the treasury of the government in gold bullion across the submarine-infested Atlantic one league ahead of the Nazis from Dakar to New York City for safekeeping.)
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1935-1935, Recruit Training Center (RTC) (Faculty Staff)
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1935-1936, USS Omaha (CL-4)
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1936-1937, SM-0000, USS New York (BB-34)
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1937-1937, SM-0000, Naval Academy Prep School (Faculty Staff) Newport, RI
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1937-1941, US Naval Academy Annapolis (Faculty Staff)
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1941-1942, USS Sturtevant (DE-239)
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1942-1942, Armed Guard Gunnery School
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1942-1943, Naval Ship Yard Philidelphia, PA
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1943-1943, USS Edsall (DE-129)
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1943-1944, USS Bronstein (DE-189)
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1944-1946, Commander, Destroyers, Atlantic Fleet, Commander, US Fleet Forces Command (COMUSFLTFORCOM)
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1946-1948, Office of Judge Advocate General (OJAG)
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1948-1948, Commander, Cruiser Division FOUR
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1948-1950, 6th Naval District
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1950-1951, USS Columbus (CA-74)
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1950-1960, Naval War College (Staff)
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1951-1951, USS Ludlow (DD-438)
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1951-1952, USS Taylor (DD-468)
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1952-1954, Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS)
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1954-1956, CNO - OPNAV
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1956-1958, USS Mitscher (DL-2)
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1958-1959, CNO - OPNAV
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1960-1962, Commander in Chief US Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR)/Commander US Naval Forces Europe (COMUSNAVE
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1962-1963, USS Mississinewa (AO-144)
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1962-1963, COMPHIBRON 12, Commander Amphibious Group Two (COMPHIBGRU 2)
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1962-1963, Commander, Amphibious Force, US Sixth Fleet, COMSIXTHFLT
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1962-1963, USS Francis Marion (LPA-249)
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1963-1964, USS Taconic (AGC-17)
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1964-1967, US Naval Academy Annapolis (Faculty Staff)
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1967-1968, COMCRUDESFLOT 11
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1967-1968, Commander, Cruiser Destroyer Group, 7th Fleet, COMSEVENTHFLT
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1967-1968, CTG 70.8
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1967-1968, USS Chicago (CG-11)
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1967-1969, USS Newport News (CA-148)
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1969-1970, Navy Personnel Command (NAVPERSCOM - NPC)
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1970-1971, Chief of Naval Personnel (CHNAVPERS)
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1971-1972, COMCRUDESPAC
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