McCloy (FF 1038) - Naval Cruise Book

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DEDICATION WE WISH TO DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THOSE WE LEAVE BEHIND AND THOSE WE RETURN TO -- THOSE WHO KEEP THE HOME FIRES LIT AND OUR HEARTS WARM.

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CDR OTTO W. SPAHR lll CO DING OFFICER Commander Otto W. Sparhr, Ill was born in Newport, Rhode lsland on 20 May 1946, the son of Captain Otto W. Spahr, lr. lRetl and Patricia Spahr. Commander Spahr graduated from the University of Florida in Gainesville in lune 1968. He then attended Officer Candidate School. Newport, Rhode Island, where he received his commission in October 1968. Upon completion of ten weeks of Damage Control!NBC!Fire Fighting school, he reported to the USS SARSFlELD lDD-837i homeported in Mayport, Florida. After numerous Caribbean exercises, a South American deployment QUNITASXT and three months of intensive training and surveillance in the Cuban OP areas, Commander Spahr received orders to the USS YORK COUNTY lLST-11753 as Engeering Officer. A deployment to the Mediterranean, as well as numerous amphibious exercises in the Caribbean and Panama, highlighted his second shipboard tour. His first tour ashore was at the Recruit Training Command lRTCl Orlando, Florida, where he was assigned as the Assistant Technical Training Officer and the command's first Apprentice Training lATl School Officer. Commander Spahr then attended Department Head School lClass of '41l in Newport, Rhode Island, graduating in October 1973. ln December 1973 he reported to the USS EDWARD MCDONNEL QFF-1043i as Engineer Officer. Twenty-eight months on board the EDDY MAC included deployments to the North Atlantic with the Standing Naval Forces Atlantic and to the Mediterranean. Following this tour he returned to Newport, Rhode Island as an instructor at the Surface Warfare Officers School Basic Course. Here he spent an equal amount of time instructing tactics in simulators, trainers and underway yard patrol lYPl craft as well as numerous podium hours in engineering related subjects. Following his tour at SWOS, Commander Spahr reported to the USS AMERICAN lCV-665 in December 1979 as the Main Propulsion Assistant. After completing a complex overhaul in September 1980, he participated in six months of underway readiness exercises on board AMERICAN. Commander Spahr was transferred in March 1981 to attend the.Surface Warfare Officers Prospective Commanding Officers Course in Newport, Rhode island in preparing for assuming command of the USS McCloy lFF-10383 homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. Commander Spahr is married to the former Sonya Cunningham of Melbourne, Florida and they have three children: Bryan, leff and Cindy. :sqm l i