Previously Held NEC GM-0000-Gunner's Mate
GM-0812-Small Arms Marksmanship Instructor
90MN-Individual GWOT IA/ILO Multi-National Force
GM-9525-Ammunition Inventory Management Specialist
Service Years
2000 - 2013
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Order of the Shellback
Order of the Golden Shellback
Official Badges
Unofficial Badges
Additional Information
What are you doing now:
Leading Petty Officer
Small Arms Marksmanship Instructor
Ammunition Supply Administration Specialist
Primary Range Safety Officer
Command Watch Bill Coordinator
Other Comments:
NAVSTA GTMO Bay Cuba Sailor Of the Quarter (SOQ) First Quarter 2008
USS New York (LPD-21), the fifth San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the seventh ship of the United States Navy to be named after the state of New York. New York has a crew of 360, and can also carry up to 700 Marines. The ship is notable for using steel that was salvaged from the World Trade Center after it was destroyed in the September 11 attacks.
Construction
Steel from the World Trade Center is melted and poured for construction of New York, September 2003.
The ship is the first to be designed fully from the CAD-screen up to support all of the Marines' primary mobility capabilities ? Landing Craft Air Cushion and MV-22B Osprey.
Shortly after 11 September 2001, Governor of New York George E. Pataki wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England requesting that the Navy bestow the name "New York" on a surface warship involved in the War on Terrorism in honor of the victims of the September 11 attacks.
The contract to build New York was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2003. New York was under construction in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
7.5 short tons (6.8 t) of the steel used in the ship's construction came from the rubble of the World Trade Center; this represents less than one thousandth of the total weight of the ship. The steel was melted down at Amite Foundry and Machine in Amite, Louisiana, to cast the ship's bow section. It was poured into the molds on 9 September 2003, with 7 short tons (6.4 t) cast to form the ship's "stem bar" ? part of the ship's bow. The shipyard workers reportedly treated it with "reverence usually accorded to religious relics", gently touching it as they walked by. One worker delayed his retirement after 40 years of working to be part of the project.
Sister ships announced
On 9 September 2004 Secretary England announced that two of New York's sister ships will be named Arlington and Somerset in commemoration of the places where two of the other planes used in the attack came down: Arlington County, Virginia, and Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
Christening
New York was christened on 1 March 2008, in a ceremony at Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans. Dotty England, the ship?s sponsor, smashed the traditional champagne bottle on the ship?s bow and christened the ship New York. Several dignitaries were in attendance, including Louisiana Congressman William J. Jefferson, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon R. England, members of the New York City Police Department and the New York City Fire Department, and family members of 11 September victims. The champagne bottle did not break the first time it was struck against the hull of the ship, but the second attempt was successful.
The ship was delivered to the Navy on 21 August 2009 at New Orleans. The ship's delivery was accepted by its first commanding officer, CDR F. Curtis Jones, USN, a native of Binghamton, New York. She set sail for Norfolk, Virginia, on 13 October 2009. On 2 November 2009 the ship passed the World Trade Center site for the first time and gave the site a 21-gun salute.
Commissioning and trials
The ship commissioning of USS New York took place on 7 November 2009, in New York City. Speakers included Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, Gov. David Paterson, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead, and Commandant of the Marine Corps General James T. Conway.
Approximately one in seven of the plank owners are from New York state, a larger number than usual.
On 11 January 2010, the Navy announced that the ship would have to undergo repairs for faulty engine parts after a premature failure of bearings on the ship?s main propulsion diesel engines during a week long sea trial following the November commissioning. The Navy did not say how long the ship would be docked. The current Commanding Officer is CAPT Jon C. Kreitz.
Service history
On 10 Jun 2012 the ship was deployed for the first time to the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf region.
New York in the Hudson River on 2 November 2009.
Career
Name:
USS New York
Namesake:
The state of New York
Awarded:
25 November 2003
Builder:
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems
Laid down:
10 September 2004
Launched:
19 December 2007
Christened:
1 March 2008
Acquired:
21 August 2009
Commissioned:
7 November 2009
Motto:
"Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget."
Status:
in active service, as of 2013
Badge:
General characteristics
Class & type:
San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock
Displacement:
24,900 tons full
Length:
208.5 m (684 ft) overall,
201.4 m (661 ft) waterline
Beam:
31.9 m (105 ft) extreme,
29.5 m (97 ft) waterline
Draft:
7 m (23 ft)
Propulsion:
Four sequentially turbocharged marine Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 41,600 shp (30 MW)
Two Bushmaster II 30 mm Close in Guns, fore and aft
two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers, fore and aft.
Aircraft carried:
Launch or land
two CH-53E Super Stallion
two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft
four CH-46 Sea Knight
four AH-1 SeaCobra or
four UH-1 Iroquois helicopters.
