Macdonough (DDG 39) - Naval Cruise Book

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With her decommissioning just around the corner, USS MACDONOUGH CDDG-397, CDR Grey A. Glover, Sr., commanding, responded to duty during Operations DESERT SHIELDXSTORM as if she had just tasted the champagne across her bow. Shown here, MACDONOUGH refuels from USS WISCONSIN CBB-645 during replenishment opera- tions in the Persian Gulf. In addition to conducting 519 interrogations and two boardings, MACDONOUGH acted as an AAW escort and aircraft controller. We acted as an umbrella for the carriers, screen- ing all aircraft coming in and out, said CDR Glover. Nothing got by us because of our great AAW umbrella. It would have been virtually impossible to run that gauntlet-we were a wall of steel, keeping the carriers safe. According to CDR Glover, his ship also directed air-to-air refueling between 368 tanker air- craft and more than 2400 combat aircraft - fighters and bombers. One of the shipls first tasks, however, was to observe the Zarghos Gap, a break in an Iranian mountain range which afforded the ship an opportunity to watch for enemy aircraft. Stationed 30 miles off the Ira- nian coast, we were the perfect platform to work the Gap, said DCR Glover. We had trained to look over land and had worked the fixes on the radar. MACDONOUGH also served as primary air defense escort for numerous ships, including the hospital ships MERCY and COMFORT. Quoted from Surface Warfare May!-func 1991. . -.-.-.-vu - -

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