Mount Baker (AE 34) - Naval Cruise Book

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Qfgq CDR STEPHEN HOLL

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P 5 As the last mooring line dropped from Pier Bravo ar naval Weapons Station and into the waters of the Cooper River the crew of the UNT BAKER liegan a journey of a lifetime. A joumey unique to the American B cket In their 228 days at sea they took part in preserving the freedom of the seas ed visits to countries over halfway around the world The statistics below! indicate numbers. Every day at sea was sacrifice every poun fcargo and every minute traveled was hours of adventure It IS the men that are hidden in these numbers, is their lives. Days deployed .... Days inport ...... Days underway ...... Mile traveled .................... Underway replenishments Vertical replenishments Flight hours ..................... Passengers transferred ..... Tons of cargo transferred Tons of mail delivered .... Millions of gallons of fuel receive Millions of gallons of fuel delivered Medical evacuations ........ E' 'rf

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,I -'I ' ff -If kgrya' : '??' ,T . This cruise book preserves a record of a very exciting, very special time in the history of.1fIOUNTBAKER and in the lives ofMOUNT BAKER 's superb crew. In here you will find the faces of the men who made up the finest crew in two oceans, you will see them at work and on liberty, you will see them flying, sailing, steaming, awake and asleep, you will find their faces as they look forward to exotic ports, as they look back across the seas and think of their families far across the waters. Each man pictured here carried a piece of the United States with him on the cruise, planted a mustard-seed of Freedom in foreign soil, carried home a cargo of understanding and comradeship toward his fellow man overseas. I have never sailed with a finer group of men. I am proud of their accomplishments and I feel very privileged to be their captain. Through their successes and sacrifices they honor themselves, and their navy, and their nation. 5fQf Jjf Commander Stephen T. Holl was born in 1945 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the United States Naval Academy where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree and from which he was commissioned as Ensign in 1967. After commissioning, he was ordered to USS HOLLISTER IDD-7882, home ported in Yokosuka, japan. In HOLLISTER, he served as main propulsion assistant and as repair division officer. Upon completion of his tour in HOLLIST- ER in 1969, LTIO Holl entered the johns Hopkins University as a graduate student in the Department of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering under the auspices of the Navy Advanced Scientific and Technical Education Program. In 1974, he was awarded a PhD in operations research. LT H011 attended the Naval Destroyer School in Newport, Rhode Island, during the winter of 1973-1974, and upon graduation, reported to USS RICHARD L. PAGE IDEG- 52: then home ported in Athens, Greece, as Engineer Officer. In 1976, LT Holl reported to the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he served on the staff of the Department of Computer Science as an instructor and later as an assistant professor, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science. In 1978, Lieutenant Commander Holl reported to the aircraft carrier USS CORAL SEA ICV-432, which was then completing an overhaul in Bremerton, Washington. Lieutenant Commander Holl served as CORAL SEA 's damage control assistant for two years. Following his tour in CORAL SEA, Lieutenant Commander Holl attended the PXO course at the Surface Warfare Officers School in Newport, Rhode Island, and then reported to the Concord, California based ammunition ship, USS SHASTA IAE-332 as Executive Officer. Commander HoIl's tour prior to USS MOUNT BAKER was in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the Pentagon, where he served as an analyst in the directorate for Program Analysis and Evaluation. Commander Holl is married to the former Kathleen Payne of Annapolis, Maryland. They have one daughter, Kristin, 13, and reside in Summerville, South Carolina. Commander Hollis a recipient of the Navy Achievement Medal, the Navy Unit Commendation, the Navy Expeditionary Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Humanitarian Service Medal, the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, the Republic of Vietnam Service Medal, the Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation, and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.