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Service Details
Current Service Status
USN Retired
Current/Last Rank
Lieutenant Commander
Current/Last Primary NEC
111X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer
Primary Unit
1987-1989, 111X, Assault Craft Unit 4 (ACU-4)
Previously Held NEC
FTB-3301-MK 80 Polaris Fire Control Systems
CYN-0000-Communications Yeoman
137X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Naval Flight Officer ( In Training)
Service Years
1966 - 1989
From Month/Year - / 1982
To Month/Year - / 1984
Unit USS El Paso (LKA-117) Unit Page
Rank Lieutenant Commander
NEC 111X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare
Base, Station or City Norfolk, VAState/Country Not Specified
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USS El Paso (LKA-117)
Charleston Class Amphibious Cargo Ship :
Laid down, 22 October 1968, as Attack Cargo Ship (AKA-117) , at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA.
Redesignated Amphibious Cargo Ship (LKA-117) , 1 January 1969
Launched, 17 May 1969
Commissioned USS El Paso (LKA-117) , 17 January 1970
Decommissioned, 21 April 1994
Assigned to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) in 1995
Moved to Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Sparrows Pt., MD. for conversion to mixed civilian/Naval Reservist manning
Conversion canceled, moved to Philadelphia and placed out of service 23 October 1996
Laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) Philadelphia PA., in maintenance category B
Struck from the Naval Register, 15 August 2015
Final Disposition, arrived at All-Star Metals, Brownsville, TX., for scrapping, 17 October 2023
Specifications :
Displacement 10,216.(lt) 18,589 t.(fl)
Length 575' 6"
Beam 82'
Draft 26'
Speed 20 kts.
Armament
As Built - four twin 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
Updated - two 20mm Phalanx CIWS
Complement
Officers 34
Enlisted 375
Troop Accommodations
Officers 15
Enlisted 211
Boats
four LCM-8s
five LCM-6s
two LCVPs
two LCPLs
Aircraft landing platform
Propulsion
one geared turbine
two boilers
one propeller, 22,000shp
Source: https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/02/02117.htm
Type
Surface Vessel
Parent Unit
Charleston-class
Strength
Amphibious
Created/Owned By
YN Pierson, Al (USview, NTWS Chief Admin ), YN2 7687
Last Updated: Mar 11, 2009