Dewey (DLG 14) - Naval Cruise Book

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X l I I H1 TQRYQF SSDEWEYKDLG-142 The present DEWEY CDLG-141 was built by Bath Iron Works, Bath Maine, as was her predecessor. Her Keel was laid on 10 August 1957 and she was christened on 30 November 1958 by the Honorable Katherine St. George, representative from the 28th Congressional District of New York. DE WEY was commissioned on 7 December 1959, the eighteenth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For the next ten years DE WE Y served as a unit of the U.S. Second, Sixth, and Seventh Fleets, visiting Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Asiatic areas, and took part in such noteworthy operations as the Cuban Quarantine and Vietnam conflict. In addition to the National Defense Medal DE WE Y displays a Vietnam Service Medal and Arm- ed Forces Expeditionary Medal from service during this period. A - In October, 1969, DEWEY entered the Philadelphia ,Naval Shipyard and was decom- missioned to undergo extensive 'Anti-Air warfare modernization. During the ensuing sixteen months she was equipped with the latest weapons control equipment available. Upon completion of moderniza- tion and recommissioning in March, 1971, DEWEY underwent an instensive five-month test program of this sophisticated equipment. After Weapons Systems qualification and completion of crew train- ing in squadron and fleet operations she was deployed in June, 1972, for service with the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin. H While in the Gulf of Tonkin DE WEY effectively participated in such activities as search and rescue missions, surveillance of foreign merchant shipping, vectoring fighter aircraft to enemy targets, monitor- ing the safety of friendly attack aircraft, and providing close-in defense and life guard service to various attack aircraft carriers. Deployment to the Western Pacific included DE WE Y'S participation in an allied tactical exercise in the Philippine Islands with ships from countries of the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization. DEWEY'S return route to the States included a stop in the Persian Gulf for an exer- cise with navies from the nations of the -Central Trea- ty Organization. . Returning to Newport on December 22, 1972, DEWEY is once again an active unit in the Cruiser- Destroyer Force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. DE WEYis the Flagship of Destroyer Squadron Twenty and is homeported in Newport, Rhode Island. COMMANDING OFFICERS Commander Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., USN Commander Mark G. Tremaine, USN .... Commander Owen A. Roberts, USN .... Commander Claiborne S. Bradley, USN .... Commander Reid Stringfellow, USN .... Decommissioned ................... Commander Conrad J. Rorie, USN .... Commander John A. Mack, USN' .... . . . . .1959-1961 . . . . .1961-1962 ... . .1962-1964 . . . . .1964-1966 . . . . .1966-1968 .....1969-1971 .....1971-1972 .. . .1972-

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E C. FOX CDDR-8291. Captain Bradley was Comman- ding Officer of the USS CHAMBERS CDER-3915 in 1960, the USS WILLARD KEITH CDD-7755 in 1963, the USS DEWEY CDLG-145 in 1965 and the SAMUEL GOMPERS in 1970. His shore duty assignments have included Instructor of Atomic Physics and Electrical Engineer- ing at the United States Military Academy, West Point from 1956 to 1958, Operations Assistant on the Joint Staff Support Operations Task Force, Europe, Paris, France from 1960 to 1963, student at the Senior Warfare Course Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, in 19663 Personnel Officer Commander Cruiser Destroyer Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, and before volunteering for Vietnam, in op-335 on the Chief of Naval Operations Staff in Washington, D. C. In Vietnam Captain Bradley was assigned to COMUSMACV Staff in the J -3 section as Chief of the Man Power Control Division until he assumed the duties for the last seven months of his tour as the assistant Chief of Staff for Plans and Policy for Rear Admiral Salzer on COMNAVFORV Staff where he received .his orders to COMDESRON TWENTY. Captain Bradley's home address is Lake Forest, Illinois. He is married to the former Nancy Lee New- man of Highland Park, Illinois. They have one daughter, Marian Elizabeth. On June 1, 1972, Captain Claiborne S. Bradley relieved Captain Robert S. Tisdale as Commander of Destroyer Squadron Twenty on board USS DEWEY CDLG-145, U. S. Naval Base, Newport, Rhode Island. Captain Claiborne S. Bradley was born in Hart- ford, Connecticut on 26 April 1926. In 1944 he entered the United States Naval Academy and graduated in June 1948. Upon his commissioning as an Ensign in the United States Navy, Captain Bradley's first assignment was to the Navy Yacht VAMARIE where he participated in the Newport to Bermuda ocean race. He then served three years aboard the USS CABOT QCVL-283 as Assistant Navigation Officer, and was subsequently assigned to a one-year elec- tronics maintenance course at Great Lakes, Illinois in 1951. . ' On assuming Command of Destroyer Squadron TWENTY, Captain Bradley will have served on his ninth assignment in the Destroyer Forces. His first tour of duty with the Destroyer Forces was in 1952 as Electronics Material Officer on the Staff of Com- mander Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla TWO. Upon depar- ture from COMCRUDESFLOT TWO's Staff in 1954, he reported aboard the USS GLENNON CDD-8401 where he served as Operations Officer, and in 1958 was assigned as Executive Officer aboard the USS M.