Mount Baker (AE 34) - Naval Cruise Book

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Former Executive Officer CDR Selecl Denise Bechfol

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COMMAN DI G OFFICER Commander Deborah A. Loewer, USN CDR Loewer graduated from officer candidate school and was commissioned an ensrgn December 17, 1976 She holds degrees in Theoretical Mathematics and Computer Science from Wrrght State University and a PhD rn international law from the University of Kiel rn Kiel, Germany. As one of the first women selected for shipboard duty, she left Washington, D.C., where she had been assigned as the Navy s pay and allowance functional manager, and reported to the USS YOSEMITE1AD 195 in June 1979 after graduating first in her class from Surface Warfare Officer School. She held brllets as Electrical Division Officer Operations Officer, Navigator and Admin Officer. During her time on board the YOSEMITE, CDR Loewer was assigned to the staff of Commander, Naval Surface Force as a design architect for shipboard computer systems, and as project officer for developmental software for SIMA, Mayport. In 1982, she returned to Washington, D.C., as a . 0 telecommunications design engineer in the Decisions Support Systems Division at the Naval Military In June of 1984 CDR Loewer was selected as an Olmsted Scholar, and attended the Defense L2lI1SU?ge Institute in Monterey Calrfornra, the Goethe Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, and the University ofK1C1 rn Kiel Germany She returned to the United States in 1986, and attended the Surface Warfare OffiCCf Department Head Course again graduating first in her class. She reported aboard the USS YELLOWSTONE 1AD 415 and served as Engineering Officer and Executive Officer. In 1990, CDR Loewer was assigned to the USS MONONGAHELA 1AO-1785 as the Executive Officer. In 1991, CDR Loewer returned t0 Washington, D.C., for duty as a Long Range Strategic Planner and United Nations Action Officer in the Strategic Concepts Branch. In November 1993, CDR Loewer reported to her first command at S93 aboard the USS MOUNT BAKER 1AE-345. Her awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commendation Medal 135, NHVQ' Achievement Medal 125, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Navy Ullll Commendation 125, Navy E Ribbon 125, National Defense SCI'V1Ce Medal, SCH Service Deployment Ribbon 125, and the Coast Guard special Operations Ribbon. L

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91lQ 'W Executive fficer LCDR Louis R. M oxcey LCDR Moxcey enlisted in the Navy in 1975 as a Gunneras Mate, and attended both A and Cn schools in Great Lakes. His first assignment was the USS BAINBRIDGE tCGN- 255. He was discharged in 1977 as a GMM2 when he earned an NROTC scholarship from Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida. l Upon graduation and the completion of a physics degree, he was commissioned an ensign and reported to Surface Warfare Officeris School CSWOSJ in Coronado, California in 1982. His first ship as an officer was the USS DENVER CLPD-95 out of San Diego, California, where he was the B-Division Officer, the MPA, and the Auxiliaries and Maintenance Officer. In 1985, he attended the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California, where he earned a masteris degree in physics, with an emphasis on nuclear weapons and effects. HCV retLu'ned to SWOS in 1988 for Department Head School, where he earned the Top SHIPS award for engineering. He became the Chief Engineer aboard the USS JESSE L. BROWN CFF-10895, and then in 1990, he came to Bravo North as the Chief Engineer for the USS SANTA BARBA - ' ' ' RA CAE 281. He returned to shore duty once more to instruct midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy in mechanical engineering before reporting aboard tht? USS MOUNT BAKER CAE-345 to become the Executive Officer on June 7, 1994. LCDR Moxcey has earned various awards, including: Navy Commendation Medal fthreej, Na A h' ' ' ' ' ' l VY C ievement Medal Qtwoj, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Sea SCYVICC Ribbon Cfourj, and the Southwest Asia Medal.