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Staff Corps Officer
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Service Details
Current Service Status
USN Retired
Current/Last Rank
Captain
Current/Last Service Branch
Supply Corps
Current/Last Primary NEC
310X-Supply Corps Officer
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Staff Corps Officer
Primary Unit
2000-2002, 310X, Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) (NAVRESSO) (NRSSO), Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP)
Previously Held NEC
00X-Unknown NOC/Designator
Service Years
1968 - 2002
Other Languages
Arabic-Egyptian
French
Indonesian-Bahasa
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Operation Desert Storm
Cold War
Order of the Arctic Circle (Bluenose)
Order of the Shellback
Realm of the South Wind
From Month/Year July / 1992
To Month/Year July / 1994
Unit USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) Unit Page
Rank Commander
NEC 310X-Supply Corps Officer
Base, Station or City SaseboState/Country Japan
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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: Oct 11, 2017
Other Memories Deployed 18 months out of 24.