Previously Held NEC MM-0000-Machinist's Mate
MM-4204-Steam Propulsion Maintenance Supervisor
GSE-0000-Gas Turbine System Technician (Electrical)
Service Years
1982 - 1997
Other Languages
Tagalog
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Operation Desert Storm
Cold War
Decommissioning
Desert Rat
Great Lakes
Order of the Shellback
Order of the Emerald Shellback
Order of the Horned Shellback
Persian Excursion
Plank Owner
Safari To Suez
Suez Canal
Official Badges
Unofficial Badges
Additional Information
What are you doing now:
I currently reside in the nation of the Philippines, working on my transition back to the United States by 2018 or early 2019. It is time for me to assimilate back into American culture and be with my family and allow my children to meet the same.
Iowa Class Battleship: Displacement 45,000 Tons, Dimensions, 887' 3" (oa) x 108' 2" x 37' 9" (Max). Armament 9 x 16"/50 20 x 5"/38AA, 80 x 40mm 49 x 20mm, 3 AC. Armor, 12 1/8" Belt, 17" Turrets, 1 1/2" +6" +5/8" Decks, 17 1/4" Conning Tower. Machinery, 212,000 SHP; Westinghouse Geared Turbines, 4 screws. Speed, 33 Knots, Crew 1921.
Operational and Building Data: Laid down by Philadelphia Naval Ship Yard, September 16, 1940. Launched December 7, 1942. Commissioned May 23, 1943. Decommissioned June 30, 1948. Recommissioned November 21, 1950. Decommissioned August 21, 1957. Recommissioned April 6, 1968. Decommissioned December 17, 1969. Recommissioned December 28, 1982. Decommissioned September 9, 1991. Stricken for disposal 12, January 1995. Retained in reserve; reinstated on the Naval Vessels Register, in reserve, 12, February 1998. Stricken for preservation in New Jersey, 4 January, 1999. Towed to Philadelphia, 12 September 1999 - 11 November 1999. Fate: Moved to Camden, NJ for preservation as a museum.
The date of the Photograph is 4 February 1984, the day that she fired 288 16" rounds at Beruit, Lebanon.
With a long history from WWII through decommissioning, 8 February 1991, the New Jersey (BB-62) retires.