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Service Details |
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Current Service Status
USN Veteran
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Current/Last Rank
Petty Officer Second Class
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Current/Last Primary NEC
HA-0000-Hospitalman Apprentice
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Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Hospitalman Apprentice
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Primary Unit
1950-1953, CYN-0000, USS Virgo (AKA-20)
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Previously Held NEC
CYN-0000-Communications Yeoman
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Service Years
1950 - 1954
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What are you doing now:
I am at the present time living my life in quiet retirement.
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From Month/Year - / 1953
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Unit USS Sharps (AKL-10) Unit Page
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Rank Petty Officer Second Class |
NEC CYN-0000-Communications Yeoman
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Base, Station or City Guam in the Meriana Islands | State/Country Not Specified |
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Hull number AKL-10
Camano Class Light Cargo Ship:
- Laid down, date unknown, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Decatur, AL.
- Delivered to US Army Transportation Service, date unknown
- Acquired by the US Navy in March 1947
- Commissioned Miscellaneous Auxiliary USS Sharps (AG-139), 3 August 1947, ENS. Francis A. Farris in command
- Reclassified Light Cargo Ship, (AKL-10), 31 March 1949
During the Korean War USS Sharps participated in the following campaigns:
- Decommissioned, 3 April 1955, at Astoria, OR. and transferred (loaned) to South Korea under terms of the Security Assurance Program
- Commissioned into the South Korean Navy as ROKS Kun San (AKL-908)
- Sold to South Korea in 1974
- Struck from the Naval Register, 20 August 1974
- Final Disposition, fate unknown
- USS Sharps earned three battle stars for Korean War service
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Type
Surface Vessel
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Parent Unit
Camano-class
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Strength
Auxiliary
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Created/Owned By
Not Specified
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Last Updated: Jan 9, 2014 |
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Best Friends Sabo, Short, Benji and Bartche
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Worst Moment Standing on the Bridge in below zero storm while re-plenishing.
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Other Memories I was at the gangplank of the USS Ashtabula when it blew up.
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