New Jersey (BB 62) - Naval Cruise Book

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Captain Douglas J. Katz, a native of Bluefield, West Virginia, attended the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating with the class of 1965. . . I-le holds a Master of Science Degree in Management from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California and is a gra- duate of the Command and Staff Course, Navy War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Captain Katz' sea assignments have includ- ed USS Perry CDD 884D as Gunnery Assistant, First Lieutenant and ASW Officer, USS John Paul Jones lDDG 32D as ASW Officer, and after attendance at Destroyer School, as the ship's Weapons Officer, and Commander Cruiser-Destroyer Group Two as Surface Op- erations Officer, Most recently he served as Commanding Officer, USS Deyo QDD 989D during a tour in which the ship was awarded two Unit Commendations and his squadron's Battle Efficiency HE . Ashore he has served as a Shipboard Advisor with the Fleet Com- mand Advisory Unit in Vietnam, as a Weap- ons System Engineering Instructor and as the Program Planning and Budgeting Officer for the Surface Combat Systems Division in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Prior to reporting to USS New Jersey, he was the Director of Professional Development at the U.S. Naval Academy. Personal decorations and awards include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal with Combat V , the Meritorious Service Medal lthree awardsl, the Navy Commendation Medal Ctwo awardsl, the Navy Achieve- ment Medal, the Vietnam Staff Service Medal First Class and numerous unit commendations and citations. l-le was selected to his present rank on 4 Feb- ruary 1985. Captain Katz is married and has two children. I-lis wife, Sharon, is also from Bluefield, West Virginia. Their son, Robert, and daughter, Erica, are both in college in South Carolina and California, respectively.

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Captain Daniel Salinas II, Executive Officer