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USN Retired
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Chief Petty Officer
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9505-Survival, Evasion, Resistance, & Escape (SERE) Instructor
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Aviation Ordnanceman
Primary Unit
1999-2001, AO-0000, H60R/S Fleet Introduction Team, Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, CA
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AN-0000-Airman
AO-8319-P-3 System Organizational Maintenance Tech
AO-8377-SH-3 System Organizational Maintenance Technician
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AO-8378-H-60 Systems Organizational Career Maintenance Technician
8286-AO-SP2-E Aviation Ordnanceman
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1981 - 2001
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US Navy Retired 20 US Navy Honorable Discharge


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Order of the Shellback Sikorsky Winged S Order of the Golden Shellback Navy Chief Initiated

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Association of Aviation OrdnancemenDisabled American Veterans (DAV)Fleet Reserve Association (FRA)Post 86
  1987, Association of Aviation Ordnancemen
  2001, Disabled American Veterans (DAV) - Assoc. Page
  2001, Fleet Reserve Association (FRA) - Assoc. Page
  2015, American Legion, Post 86 (Member At Large) (Heber, Arizona) - Chap. Page



  1987-1991, AO-8377, USS Ranger (CV-61)

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Petty Officer First Class
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AO-8377-SH-3 System Organizational Maintenance Technician

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NAS North Island
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 USS Ranger (CV-61) Details

USS Ranger (CV-61)

USS RANGER   (CVA-61)
(later CV-61)




CLASS - FORRESTAL
Displacement 56,000 Tons, Dimensions, 1039' (oa) x 129' 1" x 37' (Max)
Armament 8 x 5"/54, 100 Aircraft.
Armor, Unknown.
Machinery, 280,000 SHP; Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 34 Knots, Crew 3800 - 4280.

                      Namesake History

CVA-61 was named after "famous ships of the past" that had borne the name Ranger.

The first American Ranger was an 18-gun Continental Navy sloop, launched on 10 May 1777 by James K. Hackett, master shipbuilder, at Portsmouth, NH. Captain John Paul Jones in command.

Ranger vs. HMS Drake, 24 April 1778. Ranger captures the British sloop-of-war Drake, 20, Commander George Burdon, in an hour's action off Carrickfergus, Ireland.

Previous Rangers:

  1. Continental Navy sloop.
  2. An armed schooner.
  3. A brigantine.
  4. A steam-powered gunboat.
  5. A steel-hulled patrol craft.
  6. A wooden patrol craft.
  7. A canceled battle cruiser, originally named Lexington.
  8. A canceled battle cruiser, renamed Constitution.
  9. The first American aircraft carrier designed and built as such from the keel up.
   Source: https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/61.htm
 

Builder:

 

Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia, USA

STATUS:

 

 Awarded: February 1, 1954
Laid down: August 2, 1954
Launched: September 29, 1956
Commissioned: August 10, 1957
Decommissioned: July 10, 1993
Fate: planned for use as a museum-ship

Homeport:

 

-

Namesake:

 

-

Crest Motto:

 

-

Displacement:

 

approx. 59500 tons (light) / 79000 tons (full)

Length:

 

325 meters

Beam:

 

76,80 meters

Draft:

 

11,30 meters

Propulsion:

 

 4 geared steam turbines; 8 boilers; 4 shafts; 4 screws;

280000 shaft horsepowers (shp);

Speed:

 

30+ knots (55+ km/h)

Crew:

 

approx. 5200 (incl. airwing)

Armament:

 

 see: INFO > Forrestal – class Aircraft Carrier

Aviation :

  

full flight deck with island, up to 85 aircraft

For the USS Ranger long naval history, please click the link below:

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/r/ranger-x.html
 

Type
Surface Vessel 		 

Parent Unit
Forrestal-class
Strength
Aircraft Carrier

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YN Pierson, Al (USview, NTWS Chief Admin ), YN2 7729 
   

Last Updated: Jul 6, 2009
   
   
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USS Ranger (CV-61)
Costa, Dennis, MCPO, (1973-2000) AO AO-0000 Senior Chief Petty Officer
Pia, Manuel, SCPO, (1967-1993) AO AO-8327 Senior Chief Petty Officer
Jackson, John, CWO3, (1976-2000) AO AO-8345 Chief Petty Officer
Anderson, Daryl, PO1, (1979-1994) AO AO-6801 Petty Officer First Class
Glover, Barry, PO1, (1980-2000) AO AO-6801 Petty Officer First Class
Grogitsky, James, PO1, (1972-1993) AO AO-6802 Petty Officer First Class
Hall, David, PO1, (1984-2004) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Tobin, Ronald, SCPO, (1981-1998) AO 8286 Petty Officer First Class
Anderson, Ron, SCPO, (1982-2008) AO AO-6801 Petty Officer Second Class
Brandon, Kenneth, LT, (1985-2012) AO AO-6801 Petty Officer Second Class
Brown, Robert, PO2, (1987-1994) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Second Class
Devous, Arthur, PO2, (1984-1988) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Second Class
Guajardo, Jorge, PO2, (1988-1991) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Second Class
Jochens, Marc, PO1, (1979-2005) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Second Class
LUPTON, BRIAN, PO2, (1983-1995) AO 8286 Petty Officer Second Class
McMurry, Jeremy, CMDCM, (1987-2016) AO 8286 Petty Officer Second Class
Porter, John, CPO, (1986-2006) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Second Class
Risher, Michael, PO2, (1976-1987) AO 8286 Petty Officer Second Class
Sanchez, James, SCPO, (1986-2008) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Second Class
Thill, Matthew, CPO, (1988-2015) AO AO-6801 Petty Officer Second Class
Argumedo, Michael, PO1, (1988-2014) AO AO-6801 Petty Officer Third Class
Barbato, Kevin, PO3, (1984-1988) AO 8286 Petty Officer Third Class
Brown, Ronald, PO3, (1984-1988) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Cain, Douglas, CPO, (1990-2010) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Close, Paul, PO3, (1984-1988) AO 8286 Petty Officer Third Class
Coleman, Rodney, PO2, (1984-1993) AO AO-6801 Petty Officer Third Class
Colvin, Jeffrey, PO3, (1984-1988) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Crump, Angelo, PO1, (1982-2002) AO AO-6802 Petty Officer Third Class
Graham, Donnie, PO1, (1988-2008) AO AO-6801 Petty Officer Third Class
Henning, Terrance, PO2, (1984-1993) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Lafuente, Michael, CPO, (1984-2008) AO AO-6801 Petty Officer Third Class
Martin, Sean, CWO2, (1985-Present) AO AO-6801 Petty Officer Third Class
Martin, Sean P., CWO4, (1985-2017) AO AO-6801 Petty Officer Third Class
Nelson, Jeffery, PO3, (1990-1993) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Reddish, Carl, PO3, (1989-1993) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Reece, Nigel, PO1, (1982-2003) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Ruiz, Genel, PO2, (1984-1997) AO 8286 Petty Officer Third Class
Sasser, Michael, CPO, (1990-2014) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Stewart, Timothy, PO3, (1984-1988) AO 8286 Petty Officer Third Class
Syring, Jon, PO3, (1981-1988) AO 8286 Petty Officer Third Class
Wright, David, CPO, (1987-2007) AO AO-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Zorn, Ed, PO2, (1985-1990) AO AO-6801 Petty Officer Third Class
Anderson, Harry Jovani, PO2, (1991-2005) AO AO-0000 Airman
Lackey, Danny Todd, AN, (1988-1996) AO 8286 Airman
Micheal, Dave, AN, (1989-1993) AO 8286 Airman
Nash, Tracy, PO3, (1991-1997) AO AO-0000 Airman
Platkus, Brian, AN, (1990-1993) AO AO-0000 Airman
Reyes, Juan, AN, (1991-1993) AO AO-0000 Airman
Saliens, Mark, AN, (1990-1992) AO AO-0000 Airman
Smith, David, AN, (1985-1987) AO AO-0000 Airman
Castro, Michael, AA, (1991-1993) AO AO-8271 Airman Apprentice
Lee, Kevin, PO1, (1984-1995) AO AO-0000 Airman Recruit
Jensen, Steven, CDR, (1971-1998) OFF 410X Commander
Batzloff, Larry, LCDR, (1967-2002) OFF 655X Lieutenant Commander
Bosworth, Michael, CDR, (1972-1996) OFF 144X Lieutenant Commander
Clark, Ray, LCDR, (1966-1991) OFF 111X Lieutenant Commander
Dolloff, Robert, LCDR, (1980-1997) OFF 310X Lieutenant Commander
Mullen, Steven, LCDR, (1968-1995) OFF 632X Lieutenant Commander
Orr, Mark, LCDR, (1977-1994) OFF 161X Lieutenant Commander

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