Anchorage (LSD 36) - Naval Cruise Book

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- LIEUTENANT COMMANDER B.K. LOWE UNITED STATES NAVY Lieutenant Commander Berkala K. Lowe Executive Officer USS ANCHORAGE LSD 36 Lieutenant Commander Lowe received his BS degree from Paine college in Augusta Ga in 1978 Following completion Of OCS, he was commissioned an ensign and assigned in USS LONG BEACH ICON-91 from October 1981 t March 1985 billefs 0 . included, Assistant Terrier Missile Officer, 1st Division Officer, Boat group Officer and Electronic Material Officer. HIS ne t ' ' U ' x assignment was in SS JOHN A. MOORE IPPC-192 from June 1985 to December 1986. Bullets assignedmcluded Com- munications Officer, CMS custodian, Engineering Training Officer and 3M coordinator Upon completion of his tour LCDR Lowe selected for Department Head school with follow on orders to the USS COOK .FF 1083 th O ations Of- f - j as e per fncer from November 1987 to July 1989 he then served as Operations Officer in U55 I-'RESNO 1LST-1182j from S9Pf9mber 1989 to June 1991. Lie t t C d ' ' ' ' ' u enan omman er Lowe followed on this tour with assignment as Assistant Chief of Staff for COH1' munication N6 ' C d ' s Q 1 in omman er Carrier Group SEVEN from July 1991 to Iune 1993. In August of 1993 Lieutenant COUY' mander Lowe reported for assignment as the Executive Officer in USS ANCHORAGE.

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COMMANDER 1.1. BROWN UNITED STATES NAVY COMMANDER THOMAS J. BROWN, IR., USN COMMANDING OFFICER In 1971, Commander Thomas I. Brown, Ir. enlisted as a Quartermaster during the Vietnam Conflict. Subsequently, he served on USS SHENANDOAH QAD 181 and USS KAMEHAMEHA QSSBN 6421 before attending Officer Candidate School in 1973. Commissioned in 1974, Commander Brown served division officer tours on board USS DAVIS QDD 9371, USS RI- CHARD E. BYRD QDDG 231, and later as Engineering Officer of USS TRIPPE QFF 10751 and USS IWO JIMA QLPH 21. I-Ie served as executive officer on board USS CARR QFFG 521 and as fleet scheduler and assistant surface operations officer with COMSIXTHFLT forward deployed at Gaeta, Italy on board USS BELKNAP QCG 261 and later USS IOWA QBB 621. ' ' Pl E 'neer for Under round Nuclear Shore duty has included Defense Nuclear Agency, Washington, D.C., as test ans ngn g Testing, as detailer in Naval Military Personnel Command, Washington, D. C., and most recently as Amphibious!Combat Logistics Force Plans! Programs Officer for the Office of Chief of Naval Operations, OP-03, that included the new construc- t' f AOE 6 Class and the first hase planning and funding of LX, the future replacement for LPD-4 Class. ion o p Commander Brown holds a Master Degree in Chemistry from C.W. Post College in New York and a Masters Degree in d l Ill' ' H ' arried to the Government and International Relations from Southern Illinois University, Carbon a e, inons. e is m former Donna C. Cudd of Union, South Carolina and has three children, Ashley, Patrick and Kate.

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