Chicago (CG 11) - Naval Cruise Book

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H... .. in X1 ,r I L 2 1 -1 -llvf' : W, , 1 o., CHICAGO returned to PIRAZ station in the Gulf of Tonkin on 12 November 1967 for five weeks of duty. She returned again in January 1968, but her stay on station was interrupted when she was ordered to head north to the coast of Korea following the seizure of USS PUEBLO by the North Koreans. CHICAGO provided PIRAZ support to the Seventh Fleet forces operat- ing in the Sea of japan. She returned to her station in the Gulf of Ton- kin in mid-February 1968 and continued PIRAZ duties in the following months with brief inter- vals away from station for upkeep in Subic Bay. She departed the Gulf of Tonkin in mid-April with her officers and men cited for professional competence initiative and devotion to duty in the development and refinement associated with the Navy Positive Identification and Radar Advisory Zone IPIRAZJ concept. The fighting cruiser re- ceived the Meritorious Unit Commendation for these pioneering efforts during the period from ,Iune to December 1966. She was further com- mended for her sustained support during Octo- ber 1967 to April 1968 as Commander PIRAZ Unit to Seventh Fleet carrier and United States Air Force forces in the Gulf of Tonkin and in the Sea of japan: CHICAGOS long-range missile capability and her development and application of advanced electronic surveillance techniques significantly improved the anti-air warfare pos- ture of United Stak , units in-the Weftern Pacif- CHICAGO departed Subic Bay on the first of May 1968 on her way home to San Diego. The next several years were spent making periodic deployments back and forth to the Western Pa- cific - primarily in the Vietnam War Zone. Following an extensive overhaul in Long Beach Naval Shipyard in 1972-73 CHICAGO returned to her homeport of San Diego to continue the WESTPAC and return to .San Diego for rest and repair. W,,,,:5 ' During these years she livedup to he' reputa- . 1 H r ,- . s IC ' l Q0 endless cycle of training, exercises, deploying to 1 , ' - I' I S A J '4 l l 5, -'-ch.-f-Q I3l52Z?fl1TD: ' ' f 1, ff ,V .., fr V4. , :r-qw Y- v i V at r, 4 -Pg-, . --K .. rf.:- : ,. , Q i 1 1 . 1 8 l IH 83 6 S I F2711 e y g - ' J' if ,e il u g? 'I Iliff u 'p l Q ' li- a l c I 1 ' S9 -. f l 3-nj.:-l!:,',ii:l:-'f!x.lielz -.Jiigrr . 'l,EqIllii,t3Li -,cs ...J. -.- - -.-- :Z g ai, Y, - 'rffwr .71a1'fiJ:'-' C' ..- , .. ...',, .h,. ,. 'FNS iibfti-.Gif 3-iiwffll-5 - rigs:-.Sami-sg -.-nil: ,.ig.3 ,?tL7qT'TTfl55?IQ,j'. 1,211 it . l 'Q' A0 r ,,.,,t,,,. .---- -ui ,A YA.A I 4. -:q.9r.m- 1- '12-1J',15g'lt' -f V. g- .s.'flEt'-1 1 '9' 33ii.4x'4ili1,:5rHQ-I' l Cfilpal fiqiu ii I' 1' .E .I - I .iii -gn T'lI 1 . rid :f1'a'f11. fo V L it fg ll f . ir Q 1 , Ui , , ll L lap ' ijt ll i ll 'n wtf tl' I 'N ' ' 0'r f 4 lr 'r 'i ', lv 1' Ed fi 'ull' ' i in Q I rj 0. Ill l 'I lr li' mill W-or Q ,, .1!. 'ri in 1 It 1 Ivrri I , 7 V u ,v ' i .L 'N' gi GUI! tl ' 1 . xr , gfsigr EMEA Lf1',- - -- - T w- , -2' f- 5311 .2 ' tion as The World s Most Powerful Guided Mis- V A lf M! .bf ly I - 1 ltd bzijevln fit: .3 - I sile Cruiser ' earning eleven consecutive 'E' ' j Z ' mmm -' 4'- f for missilery excellence-a record unsurpassed in . f : ,lil 2 , ,, , fy 7, American Naval history. ' 54 ' umm . r.f-E52 1, , Each USS CHICAGO proved to be the epitome , , , Y . ,xr-T. W in . ' 1 37' 1 of American Naval might in their own times- l 2 2 ' O '-' .- - 'T 4 1- .U I TF. 'Q ' ' ships of formidable might enviable efficiency -1 . A W 4 if '- ' and proud tradition that will go long remem- nz- - 5, ,J ,V II I , - Q any bered. ' J A ' A N -Q ', ' F 11,25 Pf.- , .Girl-Q ' '- . . , -1 -e 'I' e

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U.S. command in Vietnam announced May .that the San Diego-based Uss Chicago CCG-115 lot down a MIG near Haiphong with a Talos mis- ie May 9. Chicago was patrolling the Tonkin Arriving last week on Restrict- ed Availability, USS 'CHICAGO CCG-119 will undergo work in the engineering plant and weapons system. The RAV will entail ap- proximately 30,000 man days. Commissioned in 1945, the pre- the San Francisco Naval Shipyard and given the hull designation of CG-ll. CHlCAGO's primary mission is to operate offensively or defen- sively against air, surface or sub- surface threats. filf at the time, tracking enemy aircraft and con lling friendly' planes. Talos has ,a range of 65 J es. 5, - sent CHICAGO began conver- sion from a conventional heavy cruise r to a guided missile cruiser on July 1, 1959. Almostfive years later she was recommissioned at I 'Q Since deploying from her homeport in San Diego, California in early ,, vemher, 1971, thirty-four crewmen of the guided imissile cruiser USS Captain W.T. Piotti, Jr. is the Commanding Officer. The ship has a complement of over 1,000 men. Ship Superintendent LCDR. A.D. ,Christopher notes that in his twelve years in the U.S. Navy he has never seen a cleaner ship. He hopes that in performing the necessary work, Shipyard em- ployees will do everything pos- sible to keep the ship that way-- as clean as possible. lyicago CCG-Ill have reenlisted and seven more will reenlist within the lint few days. The reenlistments provide for a total of 210 years additional drvice. The men received bonuses totalling S207,413, excluding allowances for qnsportation and unused ictumulated leave. While the A11 Volunteer Force is still downstream, Chicago, while de- yed, has had a reenlistment rate of 40 per cent for fi!! term personnel d 100 per cent for career pettyf officers making an overall percentage of WESTPAC 8: FW' l. II -Il 5 G r ,gl : 13 APR 76 - 16 OCT 76 7 SEP 77 - 7 APR 78 USS CHICAGO. The San. Diego based guided missile- cruiser USS Chicago CCG-111, with an embarked Flotilla Comman- der, returned to her homeport at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday March 10th, after a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific. The ship' is berthed at 'the quaywall, North Island Naval Air Station. A , During the deployment, Chicago served as Flagship for Rear Admiral Donald V, Cox,,Commander, Cruiser- Destroyer Flotilla Three. While deployed, RAdm. Cox served as Commander of the Seventh Fleet Crui- ser-Destroyer Group. ' . , Chicago operated primarily as a PIRAZ tPositive Identification Radar Advisory Zonei ship during the deployment. This involved surveillance of the air space and identification of all aircraft in the Gulf of Tonkin, through the use of the Naval Tactical-Data System, a computerized system for the collection and evaluation of 'tactical information. Other duties included search and rescue operations, standing ready to rescue downed U, S, pilots from carriers, operating in the area. In addition to Talos and- Tartar missiles, Chicago is armed with anti-submarine rockets, two five-inch guns, and two triple torpedo tubes. The ship displaces 18,000 tons, putting her in the class of ia heavy cruiser Chicago carries a crew of more than a thousand officers and men, under the command of Captain Stanley T, Counts. Captain Counts assumed command of the ship in November, 1970. Ports visited during the deployment included Hong Kong, Japan, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Guam, and Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines. In l-long Kong, 35 wives met their -husbands for the Christmas Holidays. W The reunions were made possible under the dependent air charter program established by Adm. Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations. While reunionswith families and friends marked the day for most of the crewmeh on their arrival in San Diego, 10 Chicago sailors had an additional attraction awaiting them when they returned. They saw for the first time their sons or daughters born while away on deployment. CHICAGO departed her base at San Diego on 19 October 1965 in the screen of the carrier KIT TY HAWK ICV 63D for multi ship battle prob lems in Hawaiian waters She returned to San Diego on 3 November 1965 and resumed oper ations along the western seaboard until 12 May 1966 On that day she got underway to join the Seventh Fleet in the Far East She reached Pearl Harbor on 20 May and put to sea the next day in company with a task group built around the air craft carrier CONSTELLATION ICVA 64j CHICAGO arrived at Yokosuka japan on 1 ,Iune 1966 She then became the flagship of Rear Admiral Thomas Starr King jr Commander Cruiser Destroyer Group Seventh Fleet and Commander Cruiser Destroyer Flotilla Eleven She sailed on 7 june for Subic Bay in the Philip pines 12 13 june then rendezvoused with Fast Carrier Task Force 77 bound for Yankee Sta tion in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam CHICAGO pioneered the Navy Positive lden hfication Radar Advisory Zone QPIRAZJ station ship support concept She took station on 14 june 1966 and continued duties of PIRAZ station ship until 13 july 1966. While on PIRAZ station she coordinated Seventh Fleet activities by identify- ing and keeping track of all aircraft friendlies as well as hostile flying faster than the speed of sound. Other duties took the cruiser to ports in the Philippines japan Okinawa and Hong Kong. She again served on PIRAZ station in the Gulf of Tonkin from 29 july to 11 August 1966 and again in September and October for two more months. During these combat tours, she not only provided sustained PIRAZ support to air- craft carriers of the Seventh Fleet, but to United States Air Force units as well. CHICAGO re- turned to San Diego from her first WESTPAC as CG-11 on 8 December 1966. During the next 10 months, CHICAGO based operations from San Diego, including fleet readi- ness exercises, firing on the Pacific Missile Range and made visits lo Hawaii, Juneau, Alaska and Seattle, Washington. On October 11, 1967, she again departed San Diego for the long transit to WESTPAC to serve with the mobile Seventh Fleet.

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