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USN Retired
Current/Last Rank
Commander
Current/Last Primary NEC
144X-Engineering Duty Officer - Ship Engineering Specialist
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Restricted Line Officer
Primary Unit
1996-1998, 144X, Strategic Systems Projects Office (SSPO), Washington, DC
Previously Held NEC
HM-0000-Hospital Corpsman
HM-3391-Nuclear Power Plant Operator
116X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare (In Training)
111X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare
Service Years
1968 - 1998
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Cold War
Order of the Arctic Circle (Bluenose)
Order of the Shellback
Persian Excursion
Plank Owner
Suez Canal
1973, Fleet Reserve Association (FRA), Branch 67 (Member) (Suitland, Maryland)
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1976, United States Naval Institute
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1988, Military Officers Association of America (MOAA)
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1990, Navy Mustang Association
2007, Navy Together We Served
2009, Navy Nuclear Weapons Association (NNWA)
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2011, American Legion, Post 1 (Member) (Memphis, Tennessee)
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2011, Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Chapter 70 (Member) (Memphis, Tennessee)
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2012, United States Navy Cruiser Sailors Association
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What are you doing now:
Retired. Residing in Lakeland, TN. Raising 2 adopted boys (2003) from Samara, Russia. Concord Academy of Memphis.
Other Comments:
1998 - 2001: TASC, Reading, MA - TRIDENT Accuracy Program Manager.
2001 - 2010: Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, CA - Senior Manager, Nuclear Weapons Security Program.
Sollenberger, Robert, CAPT
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Unit USS Ranger (CV-61) Unit Page
Rank Petty Officer Second Class
NEC HM-0000-Hospital Corpsman
Base, Station or City San FranciscoState/Country California
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USS RANGER (CVA-61)
(later CV-61)
CLASS - FORRESTAL
Displacement 56,000 Tons, Dimensions, 1039' (oa) x 129' 1" x 37' (Max)
Armament 8 x 5"/54, 100 Aircraft.
Armor, Unknown.
Machinery, 280,000 SHP; Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 34 Knots, Crew 3800 - 4280.
Namesake History
CVA-61 was named after "famous ships of the past" that had borne the name Ranger .
The first American Ranger was an 18-gun Continental Navy sloop, launched on 10 May 1777 by James K. Hackett, master shipbuilder, at Portsmouth, NH. Captain John Paul Jones in command.
Ranger vs. HMS Drake , 24 April 1778. Ranger captures the British sloop-of-war Drake , 20, Commander George Burdon, in an hour's action off Carrickfergus, Ireland.
Previous Ranger s:
Continental Navy sloop .
An armed schooner .
A brigantine .
A steam-powered gunboat .
A steel-hulled patrol craft .
A wooden patrol craft .
A canceled battle cruiser , originally named Lexington .
A canceled battle cruiser , renamed Constitution .
The first American aircraft carrier designed and built as such from the keel up.
Source: https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/61.htm
Builder:
Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia, USA
STATUS:
Awarded: February 1, 1954
Laid down: August 2, 1954
Launched: September 29, 1956
Commissioned : August 10, 1957
Decommissioned: July 10, 1993
Fate: planned for use as a museum-ship
Homeport:
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Namesake:
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Crest Motto:
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Displacement:
approx. 59500 tons (light) / 79000 tons (full)
Length:
325 meters
Beam:
76,80 meters
Draft:
11,30 meters
Propulsion:
4 geared steam turbines; 8 boilers; 4 shafts; 4 screws;
280000 shaft horsepowers (shp);
Speed:
30+ knots (55+ km/h)
Crew:
approx. 5200 (incl. airwing)
Armament:
see: INFO > Forrestal – class Aircraft Carrier
Aviation :
full flight deck with island, up to 85 aircraft
For the USS Ranger long naval history, please click the link below:
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/r/ranger-x.html
Type
Surface Vessel
Parent Unit
Forrestal-class
Strength
Aircraft Carrier
Created/Owned By
YN Pierson, Al (USview, NTWS Chief Admin ), YN2 7687
Last Updated: Feb 21, 2011
Best Friends HM2 Dave Korf
Worst Moment Shipyard Drydock
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