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Service Details
Current Service Status
USN Veteran
Current/Last Rank
Lieutenant Commander
Current/Last Primary NEC
618X-Limited Duty Officer - Electronics - Surface
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer
Primary Unit
1981-1984, 618X, Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity (SIMA)
Previously Held NEC
ETR-0000-Electronics Technician Communications
ET-1579-Precision Approach Radar Technician
ET-0000-Electronics Technician
Service Years
1957 - 1985
From Month/Year May / 1978
To Month/Year June / 1981
Unit USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) Unit Page
Rank Lieutenant Commander
NEC 618X-Limited Duty Officer - Electronics - Surface
Base, Station or City San DiegoState/Country California
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Hull number LHA-3
Tarawa Class Amphibious Assault Ship (General Purpose) :
Laid down, 5 March 1973, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS.
Final Disposition, sunk as a target, 10 July 2006, during SINKEX 2006
Launched, 11 April 1977
Commissioned USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) , 23 September 1978, CAPT. Ted C. Steele USN, in command
Deactivated at Naval Station San Diego, 13 October 2005
Towed to Naval Station Pearl for lay up in the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility Pearl Harbor
Decommissioned, 28 October 2005
Specifications :
Displacement 38,900 tons (fl)
Length 820'
Beam 106'
Draft 26'
Speed 24 kts.
Complement 82 Officer, 882 Enlisted
Troop Accommodations 1900 plus
Armament
two RAM launchers
two single 5"/54 gun mounts
two 20 mm Phalanx (CIWS)
six 25mm chain guns
Aircraft 28 amphibious transport helicopters
Power Plant two 600 psi boilers, two geared steam turbines, two shafts, 70,000 total shaft horsepower
Type
Surface Vessel
Parent Unit
Surface Vessels
Strength
Amphibious
Created/Owned By
EM White, Charles (Randy), EM2 254
Last Updated: Apr 17, 2012
Best Friends Jack Felloney Fred Cole Murat Shekem Robert Royal Gary Keller Robert Mitchke Robert Templer Richard Rollins Merle Yeager Stephen White Vincent Whitehead Willie Evans Robert Ledford Merlin Mundy James Pate Merle Long John Lehr John Mauk Michael McAtamney
Chain of Command Ted C. Steele James C. Hayes Roger McPherson Thomas Lunneberg John B. LaPlante Wells Doty Robert Mitchke