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.
NEC MM-4204-Steam Propulsion Maintenance Supervisor
Base, Station or City Norfolk
State/Country United States
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USS Seattle (AOE-3) Details
Hull number AOE-3
Sacramento Class Fast Combat Support Ship:
Laid down, 1 October 1965 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA
Launched, 1 March 1968
Commissioned USS Seattle (AOE-3), 5 April 1969, CAPT. Bruce Keener III in command
Decommissioned, 15 March 2005, at Naval Station Norfolk, VA.
Struck from the Naval Register, 15 March 2005
Final Disposition, contract awarded for scrapping in September 2005 to ESCO Marine, Inc., Brownsville, TX. transferred to ESCO, 9 February 2006, scrapping completed, 26 January 2007
Specifications:
Displacement 18,884 t.(lt) 49,956 t.(fl)
Length 793'
Beam 107'
Draft 38' (max.)
Speed 26kts
Complement
24 Officers
576 Enlisted
Aircraft
two CH46E Sea Knight helicopters
Armament
NATO Sparrow missiles
two Phalanx CIWS
Propulsion
four boilers
two geared steam turbines
two shafts, 100,000shp