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Current Service Status
USN Retired
Current/Last Rank
Chief Warrant Officer 4
Current/Last Service Branch
Aviation Ordnance Technician
Current/Last Primary NEC
736X-Warrant Officer - Aviation Ordnance Technician
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Chief Warrant Officer
Primary Unit
2015-2016, 736X, Annex Diego Garcia, EAST ASIA (NMCEAD)
Previously Held NEC
AO-6801-Air Launch Weapons Technician
AO-0000-Aviation Ordnanceman
AO-8378-H-60 Systems Organizational Career Maintenance Technician
AO-6813-Airborne Weapons Technical Manager
Service Years
1985 - 2017
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Operation Desert Storm
Cold War
Decommissioning
Neptune Subpoena
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Order of the Shellback
Order of the Golden Shellback
Order of the Golden Dragon
Persian Excursion
From Month/Year April / 2002
To Month/Year October / 2005
Unit USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) Unit Page
Rank Chief Petty Officer
NEC AO-6813-Airborne Weapons Technical Manager
Base, Station or City Naval Station 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: Oct 11, 2017