Miller, Andrew, OS1

Operations Specialist

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Service Details

Current Service Status
USN Retired

Current/Last Rank
Petty Officer First Class

Current/Last Primary NEC
OS-0319-Superviory Air Intercept Controller

Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Operations Specialist

Primary Unit
1989-1994, OS-0319, USS Chancellorsville (CG-62)

Previously Held NEC
QM-0000-Quartermaster
OS-0000-Operations Specialist
OS-0346-AEGIS Console Operator Track 3

Service Years
1978 - 1999

Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates

Operation Desert Storm

Operation Enduring Freedom

Order of the Ditch

Order of the Magellan

Order of the Shellback

Order of the Square Rigger

Panama Canal

Persian Excursion

Plank Owner

Official Badges

Unofficial Badges

Military Associations and Other Affiliations


	2000, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW), Post 5573, Stoy-Nash Post (Life Member) (Starkville, Mississippi) - Chap. Page
	2022, Plankowners of the National Museum of the Surface Navy, Plankowners (United States) - Chap. Page

Deployment - Mediterranean (MED) Cruise '80
From Month/Year January / 1980	To Month/Year October / 1981
Description A Mediterranean Cruise is a ship's deployment from her home port, usually lasting between 5 and 8 months. Ships visit different ports such as Athens, Istanbul, Izmir, Naples, Livorno and Gibralter . The ships hosted foreign militaries, performed numerous underway replenishments-at-sea and conducted general quarters drills, fire drills and maritime patrols. US Navy provides during these deployments provocative "freedom of navigation" operations, known as FONOPS, that send warships into the disputed areas around the world on any given year. Any cruise is hazardous with sailors injured or killed during flight, refueling, ordnance, operations or weather; day or night. Foriegn military vessels threatening by fast approach to ramming. Often at times ships are endangered by low fly overs from hostile aircraft.