Previously Held NEC 23CQ-Submarine Combined Cryptographic Equipment Maintenance Technician
RM-2346-Low Level Keying Teletype Maintenance
RM-2319-Communications System Technical Control Supervisor
Service Years
1981 - 2001
Other Languages
Italian
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Operation Desert Storm
Neptune Subpoena
Order of the Arctic Circle (Bluenose)
Safari To Suez
Suez Canal
Official Badges
Unofficial Badges
Additional Information
What are you doing now:
National Gateway
JOINT SERVICE PROVIDER (JSP)
ITA/Computer Applications Support Division CASD
formally known as
Pentagon Telecommunications Center
Lead Systems Analyst//HelpDesk Admin (ITSM Remedy) Tier II/III
Laid down by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp. 1 January 1961. Name assigned 16 January 1962. Launched 1 February 1964 and commissioned 23 January 1965.
Reclassified as a Multi-purpose Aircraft Carrier (CV-66) on 30 June 1975.
Fate: Decommissioned and stricken on 9 August 1996. Sunk in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Virginia coast, on 14 May 2005, after 25 days of tests consisting of underwater and surface simulated attacks on the ship. These tests were intended to provide valuable data on survivability for the next generation of aircraft carriers.
According to the December 4, 2006 issue of "Navy Times," ex-America was in one piece and sitting on its keel, some 476 miles east of Charleston, SC, and about 400 miles west of Bermuda, and 16,860 feet (5,139 meters) below the surface. This information was obtained by the USS America Carrier Veterans Association on October 30, through a Freedom of Information Act request.