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Service Details
Current Service Status
USN Retired
Current/Last Rank
Senior Chief Petty Officer
Current/Last Primary NEC
OS-9502-Instructor
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Operations Specialist
Primary Unit
1989-1992, OS-0000, Commander, Amphibious Squadron Ten (COMPHIBRON 10), Commander Amphibious Group Two (COMPHIBGRU 2)
Previously Held NEC
RD-0000-Radarman
OS-0317-NTDS-Input/Utilization Display Equipment Operator
OS-0336-Tactical Support Center (TSC) Operations Control Operator
OS-0326-Operations Systems Specialist
OS-0000-Operations Specialist
Service Years
1972 - 1992
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Operation Desert Storm
Cold War
Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club
Neptune Subpoena
Order of the Arctic Circle (Bluenose)
Order of the Ditch
Order of the Rock
Order of the Shellback
Order of the Golden Dragon
Persian Excursion
Plank Owner
Tailhook
Voice Edition
From Month/Year - / 1972
To Month/Year - / 1975
Unit USS Halsey (DLG-23) Unit Page
Rank Petty Officer Third Class
NEC RD-0000-Radarman
Base, Station or City San DiegoState/Country California
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Namesake:
Builder:
Laid down:
26 August 1960
Launched:
15 January 1962
Commissioned:
20 July 1963
Decommissioned:
28 January 1994
Reclassified:
Struck:
28 January 1994
Fate:
scrapped, 2003
Class & type:
Displacement:
7,903 tons
Length:
533 ft
Beam:
53 ft
Draft:
24 ft 6 in
Propulsion:
Speed:
32 knots
Range:
8,000 nm at 20 knots
Complement:
400 officers and enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems:
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Armament:
2 Ã? Mark 10 Terrier SAM
1 Ã? ASROC ASW system
4 Ã? 3 in(76 mm)guns
6 Ã? 12.75 in(324 mm)ASW Torpedo Tubes
COMMANDING OFFICERS
Anderson, Herbert Henry, CAPTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 07/20/63 - 10/07/64
Ringenberg, George William, CAPTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 10/07/64 - 09/10/65
LeBourgeois, Julien Johnson, CAPTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 09/10/65 - 07/06/67
Murtha, Vincent Lloyd, CAPTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 07/06/67 - 10/14/68
Harper Jr., Wyatt Eugene, CAPTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 10/14/68 - 12/10/69
Hooper Jr., James Albert, CAPTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 12/10/69 - 11/04/71
Nolan, Joseph Dunstan, CAPTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 12/16/72 - 11/22/74
McCauley, William Frederick, CAPTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 11/22/74 - 03/18/77
Type
Surface Vessel
Parent Unit
Surface Vessels
Strength
Destroyer Leader Guided Missile
Created/Owned By
Not Specified
Last Updated: Feb 7, 2009
Other Memories Plank Owner - Commisioned Dec 16, 1972 - Bath, Maine