Briscoe (DD 977) - Naval Cruise Book

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COMMANDER DESTROYER SQUADRON 22 Captain Hoist was born and raised in IVIiddletown, New Jersey, and is a 1977 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. His first sea tour was in USS GOLDSBOROUGH (DDG 20) where he received his Surface Warfare Officer pin (SWO). He then served at the following commands: Surface Warfare Department Head School, USS LEFTWICH (DD 984) as Operations officer, USS TRUXTON (CGN 35) as Operations Officer, Com- bat Systems Instructor at Surface Warfare Officers School in Newport, Rhode Island, Executive Officer in USS CALLAGHAN (DDG 994), OPNAV as a member of the Chief of Naval Operation ' s Strategy and Concepts Group (N-513), USS FITZGERALD (DDG62) as commissioning Commanding Officer, OPNAV (N-86 as the Executive Assistant to Director, Operations Directorate of the Joint Staff (J-33) where he headed the Pacific Command Current Operations Division. CAPT Hoist took command as Commander Destroyer Squadron twenty-two in October 2000, relieving CAPT Miller who went on to COMAFLOATRAGRULANT Norfolk, VA. CAPT Hoist resides in VA with wife, Beth and son, Jonathan, d dauahter. Lejah. .±

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ADMIRAL BRISCOE A native of Centerville, Mississippi, Admiral Briscoe had graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1918. During World War I he served in the battleship ALABAMA of the Atlantic Fleet and in the destroyer ROE, operating from Brest, France. At the end of hostilities, he made the first postwar Midshipmen cruise in the USS KEARSARGE and in 1919 returned to destroyer duty as Engineer Officer of the USS HUMPHREYS, stationed in Near East waters at Constantinople. During the Turko-Greek fighting in 1920-1921, he commanded a Naval landing force at Derindge, Turkey. After further destroyer duty in the USS FLUSSER and USS HENDERSON, and recruiting duty at Little Rock, Arkansas, he served as Senior Assistant Engineer of the battleship WEST VIRGINIA (1926-1929), then returned to the Naval Academy as an instructor in Mechanical Engineering. In 1931-1933 he was on China Station, assigned first as Executive Officer of the USS EDSALL, on Yangtze Patrol during the Japanese occupation of Woosung and Manchuria, and later as Communication Officer of the USS HOUSTON, flagship of the Commander in Chief, Asiatic Fleet. He again returned to the Naval Academy in June 1934, and for three years served as Head of the Department of Chemistry. Sea duty as Navigator of the battleship MISSISSIPPI preceded a tour during the prewar period as Assistant Director of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and Navy Department Liaison Officer with the National Defense Research Committee. He has been identified as one of the pioneers of modern electron- ics development In the Navy. In May 1942 he assumed command of the USS PROMETHEUS, a recommissioned World War I repair ship. Under his command she joined the THIRD Fleet at Noumea, Caledonia, where he was detached to command Destroyer Squadron 5 and operated as escort commander for Task Forces 67, 68 and 70. In the intervening periods when the battleships and cruisers were not at sea. Admiral Briscoe operated Commander Task Group 675 (Cactus Striking Force) In Guadalcanal waters. He was transferred to command of the USS DENVER In July 1943, and returned that cruiser to the United States after she suffered severe battle damage off Rabaul in November 1943. In February 1944 he joined the Staff of the Commander In Chief, U.S. Fleet, In Washington, as Head of New Developments, and with his promotion to flag rank in April 1945, assumed command of Amphibious Group 14. V-J Day found him in Manila, working on plans for the Invasion of the Japanese homeland. In September 1945 he took com- mand of the Operational Development Force, Atlantic Fleet with headquarters at Norfolk, Virginia. After two years there, and a tour of duty as Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Readiness), he became Commander Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet, on November 1, 1950. Ordered in January 1952 to command the SEVENTH Fleet in Korean waters, he retained this command until designated Commander Naval Forces, Far East, in June of that year. Two years later he reported as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, for Fleet Operations and Readiness, and on July 2, 1956, became Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Southern Europe. For exceptional meritorious service ... (In that capacity) from July 2, 1956 to December 31, 1958. .. he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. On January 1, 1959 he was transferred to the Retired List of the U.S. Navv. He died on October 14, 1968 In Liberty, Mississippi. USS BRISCOE was commissioned 3 June 1 978 at the Ingalls Siiipbuilding Division of Litton Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi. She is the fifteenth destroyer in a series of 31 SPRUANCE CLASS destroyers. BRISCOE was originally developed as an Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) destroyer. With the installation of a 6 1 cell Vertical Launch Missile System (VLS), BRISCOE possesses the most sophisticated and lethal weapons in the U.S. arsenal, including Tomahawk and Harpoon Missiles. Since commissioning, BRISCOE has deployed to the Arabian Gulf, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic and Red Sea,served as a member of the Standing Naval Forces Atlantic, and sailed around South America during UNITAS XXX, participated in the liberation of Grenada, and in the Multi- National Peacekeeping Forces off the coast of Lebanon. BRISCOE was again in the international headlines in June 1999 when she was tasked ith conducting the solemn burial at sea of John F Kennedy. JR.

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