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Service Details
Current Service Status
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)
- Assoc. Page
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
From Month/Year September / 1977
To Month/Year June / 1980
Unit USS Josephus Daniels (CG-27) Unit Page
Rank Lieutenant Junior Grade
NEC 111X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare
Base, Station or City NorfolkState/Country Virginia
Last Updated: Mar 22, 2021
Best Friends Bob Lutz, Mike Sasser, Paul Stoney
Best Moment SWO Pinning while Ensign.
Worst Moment ROH @ NNSY Norfolk. LOE. GTMO REFTRA with 2 watch sections.
Chain of Command OC Chisum, Robbie Robertson, Zeke Newcomb
Other Memories Night UNREPS enroute to Med. Change of Command pierside in Athens. NNSY Emergency Dry Dock/Sonar Dome Rubber Window replacement.