Belleau Wood (LHA 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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Master Chief Christopher Penton is a native of Bogalusa, La. Navy in Recruit San Wm 1 PM i UT I Master Chief two Meritorious Service and Marine Corps Commendation Ioint Service Achievement Medal, three and Marine Corps Achievement Medals, im'

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helicopters, Following designation as a Naval Aviator in November 1981, he flew s0SearCh and rescue missions in the high Sierra Nevada Mountains. ln October 1983, he recorded the then highest rescue in the contiguous United States, recovering an injured hiker at the 14,000-foot level of Mount Whitney, Calif, His at sea tours include HSL-35 where he embarked aboard USS Fletcher I DD 9922, USS Cook CPF 10831 and LIS S Leftwich K DD 9841, serving as detachment Operations, Maintenance and Officer in Charge and completing seven deployments to the eastern and western Pacific and Indian oceans. He also served as a SH-60B instructor pilot, HSL-4 Detachment Four Officer embarked aboard USS Crommelin Officer in Charge KDD 9711: HSL-43 as Commanding CLHD 45, joint awards include Service Medal, 432, Ioint Service Navy Commendation Achievement Medal and the CP Roy Wilkins Award for outstanding community service.

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Dcpartriierit IMD DEP RTME T The Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance De- partment inspects, tests and checks, calibrates and repairs aircraft components, as Well as main- tains support and material handling equipment. The diverse mission supports the embarked Air Combat Element, Amphibious Ready Group and Amphibious Ready Group Intermediate Maintenance Activity. The four divisions - Staff CIM-lj, General Maintenance CIM-25, Avionics X Armament CIM-37 and Support Equipment fIM-45 - are comprised of 18 different work centers, each with a specialized support function. Working together as a team, AIMD uses more than 2,700 pieces of installed, portable, rolling and armament support equipment to support more than 100 systems in six different types of opera- tional aircraft. AIMD has the capability to test, repair and service more than 4,000 components. The level of repairs ranges from small delicate Work performed by micro-miniature repair tech- nicians, to large complex work tasks performed on the amphibious assault crash crane by the support equipment technicians. All together, AIMD normally processes in excess of 400 repair- able aircraft components with a total of more than 2,000 maintenance actions completed each month while deployed. ,WIP CDR, . Rafaelito De Jesug Aocivi mwy I Tommy Dax is