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Aviation Electrician's Mate
TWS Ribbon Bar
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Service Details
Current Service Status
USN Retired
Current/Last Rank
Chief Petty Officer
Current/Last Primary NEC
AE-8215-Helicopter Rescue Aircrewman
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Aviation Electrician's Mate
Primary Unit
1987-1990, AE-9502, Oceana (Staff)
Previously Held NEC
8215-Helicopter Rescue Aircrewman
AE-0000-Aviation Electrician's Mate
8331-A-6 System Organization Maintenance Technician
AE-9502-Instructor
Service Years
1966 - 1990
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club
Neptune Subpoena
Order of the Arctic Circle (Bluenose)
Order of the Shellback
Plank Owner
From Month/Year - / 1978
To Month/Year - / 1980
Unit USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) Unit Page
Rank Petty Officer First Class
NEC AE-8215-Helicopter Rescue Aircrewman
Base, Station or City UH-1N CREWCHIEF/RESCUE CREWMANState/Country California
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Hull number LHA-3
Tarawa Class Amphibious Assault Ship (General Purpose) :
Laid down, 5 March 1973, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS.
Final Disposition, sunk as a target, 10 July 2006, during SINKEX 2006
Launched, 11 April 1977
Commissioned USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) , 23 September 1978, CAPT. Ted C. Steele USN, in command
Deactivated at Naval Station San Diego, 13 October 2005
Towed to Naval Station Pearl for lay up in the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility Pearl Harbor
Decommissioned, 28 October 2005
Specifications :
Displacement 38,900 tons (fl)
Length 820'
Beam 106'
Draft 26'
Speed 24 kts.
Complement 82 Officer, 882 Enlisted
Troop Accommodations 1900 plus
Armament
two RAM launchers
two single 5"/54 gun mounts
two 20 mm Phalanx (CIWS)
six 25mm chain guns
Aircraft 28 amphibious transport helicopters
Power Plant two 600 psi boilers, two geared steam turbines, two shafts, 70,000 total shaft horsepower
Type
Surface Vessel
Parent Unit
Surface Vessels
Strength
Amphibious
Created/Owned By
EM White, Charles (Randy), EM2 254
Last Updated: May 14, 2009
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