Previously Held NEC PN-2612-Classification Interviewer
PN-0000-Personnelman
PN-9585-Navy Recruiter Canvasser
NC-0000-Navy Counselor
NC-9588-Career Information Program Advisor
NC-9589-Command Career Counselor
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
Best Friends Shawn Kutzleb, Bob Griswold, Randy Harrell, Bobby Gunther, Tony C. Davis, Thomas McCool, Bobby J. Norris.
Best Moment Command Advanced to PN3 through the efforts of PNC Sonny Williams and Promotion by Captain Dave Frost in April 1986 at sea.
Worst Moment Reporting aboard the ship in drydock at Norshipco Shipyard, Berkeley, Virginia in February 1985.
Chain of Command Captain Dave Frost, Commander J. P. Keane, LT Roy Barnes, Chief Sonny Williams, PN1 Jose Moreno (1986) Captain J.J. Mazach, LT.CDR. P. C. Ruhl, LT Ray Phillips, Chief Sonny Williams, PN1 Dennis C. Youngs (1987)