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Service Details
Current Service Status
USN Retired
Current/Last Rank
Lieutenant Commander
Current/Last Primary NEC
619X-Limited Duty Officer - Surface Communications
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer
Primary Unit
2003-2004, 619X, Maritime Liaison Office Bahrain (MARLO), COMUSNAVCENT
Previously Held NEC
RM-2304-Morse Code Operator
RM-2313-Independent Duty Radioman
RM-2318-Communications System Technical Control Operator
RM-2363-DSCS Satellite Operator
RM-2319-Communications System Technical Control Supervisor
Service Years
1976 - 2004
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Order of the Antarctic Circle
Panama Canal
Newfoundland Skreech
Operation Iraqi Freedom
What are you doing now:
Currently working as a Senior Policy & Doctrine Specialist ( GS-13) in the CIO (CIO 5) Division for the Navy Cyber Forces (COMNAVCYBERFOR).
From Month/Year - / 1995
To Month/Year - / 2000
Unit USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) Unit Page
Rank Lieutenant Commander
NEC 619X-Limited Duty Officer - Surface Communications
Base, Station or City SaseboState/Country Japan
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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: Jun 5, 2007
Best Friends Many, Many Shipmates My Steaming partner - Bosn' Blaydes
Other Memories 5 Years aboard the "Big Dog" a lot of great memories.