England (CG 22) - Naval Cruise Book

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COMMANDING OFFICER Captain James W. Orvis, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, graduated from Missouri Valley College and received his commission through the Officer Candidate School. He has served on USS VOGELGESANG (DD 862), on USS FECHTELER (DD 870), as Executive Officer on the USS REASONER (FF1063), as Officer in charge of HIGH POINT (PCH 1), as Commanding Officer of USS PEGASUS (PHM 1) and USS CROMMELIN (FFG 37). He has also served as Surface Operations Officer on Cruiser Destroyer Group Three staff, in Vietnam with the Naval Advisory Group, and as Current Operations Officer on the staff of Commander in Chief U. S. Pacific Fleet. Captain Orvis has attended Naval Post Graduate School and U. S. Army Command and General Staff College. He has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal and the Le- gion of Merit. Captain Orvis is married to Mary H. Moore of Kansas City, Missouri and has three children: David, Bill and Lisa. CO 5

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COMMANDING OFFICER Captain van der SCHROEFF received his commission through Officer Candidate School in Newport Rl, after earning a BS degree in Chemistry from Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut in 1964. After a brief special tour at the Naval War College as Senior Foreign Officer liaison officer his tours of duty at sea include USS BERKELEY (DDG 15), USS WAD- DELL (DDG 24) and Commanding Officer of USS HENRY B WILSON (DDG 7). He has also served as Operations Officer for Commander Middle East Force, US Naval Advisor to the Iranian Navy, Combat systems Depart- ment Head and Missile Gun Department Head at the Naval Ship Weapon Systems Engineering Station, and Anti-Air Warfare Branch Head for the Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Surface Warfare). Captain van der Schroeff received an MS in chemistry from the Naval Post Graduate School and is a graduate of the Naval War College. He has been awarded the Combat action Ribbon, the Navy Commendation Medal, Meritorious Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. Captain van der SCHROEFF is married to Lesley Cocking of London, the United Kingdom. 4 CO

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER Lieutenant Commander T. V. McCully is a native of Louisville, Mississippi, and is a 1976 graduate of the NROTC program at the University of Mississippi. From 1977 to 1979 he served as Damage Control Assistant on USS GLOVER (AGFF1 FF-1098) from 1979-1981 he was the CICO and Navigator onboard USS HARRY W. HILL (DD-986). After serving as an instructor at the university of Missouri NROTC program, he returned to the fleet in 1983 as the Operations Officer of USS LYNDE McCORMICK (DDG-8), followed by an assignment as Combat Systems Officer of USS GRIDLEY (CG-21) in 1985. Before com- ing to ENGLAND, he served as the assistant Surface Operations Officer for COMCAR- CRU ONE from 1987 to 1989 with WESTPAC North Arabian Sea cruises on USS RANGER (CV-61) and USS CONSTELLATION (CV-68). LCDR McCully moves on to become Sur- face Warfare instructor at Tactical Training Group Command Pacific in San Diego. In his fourteen years as a naval officer, LCDR McCully has received the Meritoruous Ser- vice Medal, Three Navy Commendation Medals, and the Navy Achievment Medal. LCDR is married to LT Janet C. McCully, JAGC, USNR. COMMAND MASTER CHIEF Master Chief Deisher joined the Navy October 1 , 1 965. After attending numerous train- ing courses, he reported to USS O ' HARE (DD 889). He also served in USS DAVIS (DD 937) and as Course Coordinator at FLEASWTRACENPAC. He reported to USS EN- GLAND as LCPO in May 1 980. He served at FLEASWTRACENPAC as LCPO for Curricu- lum Development prior to assuming duties as Command Master Chief in USS EN- GLAND September 1986. 6 XO CMC