Alcantar, Alex, PO1

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Current Service Status
USN Retired
Current/Last Rank
Petty Officer First Class
Current/Last Primary NEC
DS-9502-Instructor
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Data Systems Technician
Primary Unit
1998-2001, DS-9502, Fleet Combat Training Center Pacific (Staff)
Previously Held NEC
DS-0000-Data Systems Technician
DS-1656-CV/CVN Combat Dir System(CDS)/(ASWM) Computer/Per Subsy Maint Tech
DS-1664-SNAP I Computer System Maintenance Technician
DS-1622-CDS Upgrade Computer/Peripheral Maintenance Technician
DS-1684-CG/CGN/DDG CDS Upgrade Data Display Technician
DS-1615-Shipboard Tactical Data Systems Technician
Service Years
1981 - 2001
Other Languages
Spanish
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  1983-1988, DS-1664, USS Ranger (CV-61)

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- / 1988

Unit
USS Ranger (CV-61) Unit Page

Rank
Petty Officer Second Class
NEC
DS-1664-SNAP I Computer System Maintenance Technician

Base, Station or City
Coronado
State/Country
California
  
 
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 USS Ranger (CV-61) Details

USS Ranger (CV-61)

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 Rangers:

  1. Continental Navy sloop.
  2. An armed schooner.
  3. A brigantine.
  4. A steam-powered gunboat.
  5. A steel-hulled patrol craft.
  6. A wooden patrol craft.
  7. A canceled battle cruiser, originally named Lexington.
  8. A canceled battle cruiser, renamed Constitution.
  9. 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:

 

-

Namesake:

 

-

Crest Motto:

 

-

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 7752 
   

Last Updated: Aug 7, 2007
   
Memories For This Unit

Worst Moment
a Major fire in 4Main and 2Aux, only a month after I arrived onboard. I really wondered what was going to happen since they put half the crew at abandon ship stations.

Other Memories
meeting up with the New Jersey and Missouri Battle groups and experiencing a double broadside from a mile away (behind Missouri)
   
   
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McDaniel, Michael, MCPO, (1977-2002) DS DS-1615 Chief Petty Officer
Bishop, David, PO1, (1973-1993) DS DS-1654 Petty Officer First Class
Senda, Mark, PO1, (1976-1983) DS DS-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Earp, Paul, PO2, (1984-1990) DS DS-1623 Petty Officer Second Class
Muecke, Charles, PO2, (1984-1990) DS DS-0000 Petty Officer Second Class
Way, Mark, PO1, (1983-2003) DS DS-1615 Petty Officer Second Class
Hixon, Kerry, PO3, (1982-1988) DS DS-1623 Petty Officer Third Class
Hixon, Kerry, PO3, (1982-1988) DS DS-1623 Petty Officer Third Class
Jensen, Steven, CDR, (1971-1998) OFF 410X Commander
Bosworth, Michael, CDR, (1972-1996) OFF 144X Lieutenant Commander
Clark, Ray, LCDR, (1966-1991) OFF 111X Lieutenant Commander
Myers, Lawrence, CDR, (1974-1994) OFF 131X Lieutenant Commander
Orr, Mark, LCDR, (1977-1994) OFF 161X Lieutenant Commander
Reily, James, CAPT, (1971-1997) OFF 310X Lieutenant Commander
Schweiger, Jeffrey, LCDR, (1975-1994) OFF 132X Lieutenant Commander
Treude, Jeffrey, LCDR, (1974-1994) OFF 132X Lieutenant Commander
Young, Robert, CAPT, (1972-2003) OFF 132X Lieutenant Commander
Baker, Robert, LT, (1970-1990) OFF 132X Lieutenant
Breier, Tim, LCDR, (1977-2000) OFF 230X Lieutenant
Curtis, Frederick, CDR, (1982-2004) OFF 130X Lieutenant
Griffith, Larry, LCDR, (1968-1989) OFF 619X Lieutenant
Higgins, John, CDR, (1969-2000) OFF 151X Lieutenant
Hopkins, Mark, LCDR, (1975-1994) OFF 111X Lieutenant
Jennings, R.C., CAPT, (1985-2016) OFF 111X Lieutenant
Kindred, James, LCDR, (1980-2000) NO 110X Lieutenant
Manuma, Lene, LCDR, (1968-1997) OFF 619X Lieutenant
O'Keefe III, John, CAPT, (1976-2006) OFF 111X Lieutenant
Roberson, Vernan, LT, (1984-1991) OFF 111X Lieutenant
Roberson, Vernan, LT, (1984-1991) OFF 111X Lieutenant
Slaughter, Phillip, LT, (1973-1986) OFF 111X Lieutenant
Troyer, Daane, LCDR, (1972-1993) OFF 154X Lieutenant
Williamson, Paul, CDR, (1969-2001) OFF 641X Lieutenant
Brady, Jr., M.D., Charles Eldon, CAPT, (1986-2006) OFF 210X Lieutenant Junior Grade
Cedrun, Mark, CAPT, (1979-Present) OFF 111X Lieutenant Junior Grade
Goins, Randy, LCDR, (1975-1998) OFF 641X Lieutenant Junior Grade
Kelch, David, CDR, (1969-2001) OFF 639X Lieutenant Junior Grade
Oliver, David, CDR, (1985-2007) OFF 111X Lieutenant Junior Grade
Young, C. J., CDR, (1981-2010) OFF 131X Lieutenant Junior Grade
Cabreira, Joe, LCDR, (1974-2001) OFF 638X Ensign
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Segal, Mark, LCDR, (1982-1997) OFF 111X Ensign
Spicuzza, Ray, LT, (1976-1998) OFF 641X Ensign
Crawley, Lowell B., CWO4, (1967-1997) OFF 736X Chief Warrant Officer 3
Huff, Gerald, CWO3, (1971-1993) OFF 713X Chief Warrant Officer 2
Leonard, Michael, CWO2, (1967-1990) OFF 741X Chief Warrant Officer 2
Tolson Sr., James, MCPO, (1961-1988) AM AM-8300 Master Chief Petty Officer
Walsh, Michael P., MCPO, (1956-1986) AD AFCM-8300 Master Chief Petty Officer
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