Comte De Grasse (DD 974) - Naval Cruise Book

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EXECUTIVE OEFICER LCDR GREGORY L BYRD UNITED STATES NAVY SEP 89 — PRESENT LIEUTENANT COMMANDER BYRD WAS BORN IN CONNELLSVILLE. PENNSYLVANIA. HOWEVER. FROM THE AGE OF 9 HE GREW UP IN PASEDENA. MAR YLAND. PASADENA IS ONL Y TEN MILES FROM ANNAPOLIS, SO ITS NO SURPRISE THAT THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY IS WHERE LCDR BYRD RE- CEIVED HIS COMMISSION IN 1977. SEVEN YEARS LATER. IN 1984, WHILE ON SHORE DUTY, LCDR BYRD ATTENDED NIGHT SCHOOL AND EARNED A MASTERS DEGREE IN SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT IN AN OFF CAMPUS PROGRAM FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. LIEUTENANT COMMANDER BYRD HAS SERVED AT SEA AS FIRST LIEUTENANT. ELECTRICAL OFFI- CER AND NAVIGATOR IN USS PREBLE (DDG-46); SHIP CONTROL OFFICER NAVIGATOR IN USS JAR- RET fFFG-33); AND OPERATIONS OFFICER (PLAN- KOWNER) IN USS FORT MCHENRY (LSD -45). HIS SHORE ASSIGNMENTS HA VE INCLUDED SEN- IOR INSTRUCTOR. FFG-7 CLASS SHIP TRAINING. FLEET COMBAT TRAINING CENTER. ATLANTIC. DAM NECK. VIRGINIA AND STUDENT AT THE ARMED FORCES STAFF COLLEGE NORFOLK, VIR- GINIA. LIEUTENANT COMMANDER BYRDS PERSONAL AWARDS INCLUDE THE NAVY COMMENDATION MEDAL WITH GOLD STAR AND THE NAVY ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL WITH GOLD STAR. LIEUTENANT COMMANDER BYRD AND HIS WIFE WANDA RESIDE IN VIRGINIA BEACH WITH THEIR DAUGHTER MIA NICOLE

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER CDR DENIS V. ARMY UNITED STATES NAVY SEP 87 -SEP 89 COMMANDER DENIS V. ARMY HAILS FROM WORCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS. HE RECEIVED HIS COMMISSION AFTER GRADUATING FROM HOLY CROSS COL- LEGE IN 1975. IN 1979 HE ATTENDED THE NAVAL POST GRADUATE SCHOOL AND GRADUATED IN 1980 WITH HONORS AND A MASTER DEGREE IN COMPUTER SYS- TEMS TECHNOLOGY. HE HAS SERVED AS ASSISTANT CIC OF- FICER AND OPERATIONS OFFICER DUR- ING A 39 MONTH TOUR ABOARD USS DAHLGREN (DDG 43), WEAPONS OFFICER ABOARD USS CLAUDE V. RICKETS (DDG 5). HIS SHORE TOURS INCLUDE COMBAT SYSTEMS OFFICER ON THE COMDESRON TWO STAFF, AND PRIOR TO HIS ARRIVAL ON USS COMTE DE GRASSE HE WAS OPER - ATIONAL TEST DIRECTOR FOR TACTICAL DATA SYSTEMS AT COMOPTEVOR. HE IS LEA VING US FOR AN ASSIGNMENT ATSA- CLANT STAFF AS NATO WEAPONS COOR- DINATOR. COMMANDER ARMYS PERSONAL AWARDS INCLUDE THE NAVY COMMEN- DATION MEDAL, NAVY ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL, AND THE ARMED FORCES EXPE- DITION AR Y MEDAL. COMMANDER ARMY AND HIS WIFE BETH RESIDE IN VIRGINIA BEACH WITH THEIR TWO CHILDREN SARAH AND MATT.

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.Li COMMAND MASTER CHIEF FTCM(SS) PETER WHELAN MASTER CHIEF PETER WHELAN ENLISTED IN THE NAVY IN JUNE 1964. HE THEN AT- TENDED TORPEDOMEN A SCHOOL FOL- LOWED BY SUBMARINE SCHOOL IN NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT. HIS ASSIGNMENTS INCLUDE; THE USS SKIPJACK (SSN583), USS GEORGE WASHING- TON (SSBN 598), AND THE USS CASIMIRE PU- LASKI (SSBN 633). IN MA Y 1976 HE REPOR TED ABOARD USS ROBERT E. LEE (SSBN 601) AND SERVED AS CHIEF OF THE BOAT UNTIL OC- TOBER 1980. HE THEN SERVED AS CHIEF OF THE BOAT ABOARD USS BREEMERTON (SSN 698) UNTIL JANUARY 1984. HIS SHORE DUTIES INCLUDE STAFF DUTY WITH COMSUBPAC PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII HE WAS THEN ASSIGNED AS COMMAND MASTER CHIEF AT THE NAVY EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CENTER, PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL APRIL 1989 MASTER CHIEF WHELANS AWARDS IN- CLUDE THE MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, NAVY COMMENDATION MEDAL, NAVY ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL WITH THREE GOLD STARS, GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL (SIX AWARDS) AND VARIOUS SERVICE AND CAMPAIGN MEDALS. MASTER CHIEF WHELAN AND HIS WIFE CAMILLE RESIDE IN PENSACOLA, FLORIDA WITH THEIR TWO SONS MICHAEL AND CHRISTOPHER. CATCHING SOME RAYS