Enterprise (CVN 65) - Naval Cruise Book

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COMMANDER CARRIER GROUP THREE, October 1982 — 23 June 1984 Rear Admiral Edwin R. Kohn, Jr., U.S. Navy AnativeofSmethport, Pa., Rear Admiral E.R. Rudy Kohn graduated from Pennsylvania State University and was commissioned an Ensign in January 1955. He attended flight training and was designated a Naval Aviator in June 1956. His first assignment as an aviator was with Attack Squadron NINE FIVE flying Douglass Skyraiders aboard USS TICONDEROCA. After a tour in the Advanced Flight Training Command, Rear Admiral Kohn served as Assistant Combat Information Center Officer and Assistant Operations Officer on the aircraft carrier USS HANCOCK during 1964-65. He served with Attack Squadron FIVE FIVE in 1966 and 1 967, aboard USS RANGER and USS CONSTELLATION with combat cruises off Vietnam. His next assignment was in the Corsair II Replace- ment Air Wing Attack Squadron 122, Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif., as Operations Officer. Rear Admiral Kohn was Executive Officer and then Commanding Officer of Attack Squadron NINE THREE in 1970 and 1971 with Vietnam combat deployments aboard USS RANGER and USS MID- WAY. He then attended the Naval War College in Newport, R.i. After War College he commanded Attack Carrier Airwing ONE aboard USS JOHN F. KENNEDY. Upon completion of his tour as Air Wing Commander, he served in the Bureau of Naval Personnel, first as head Air Combat Placement Branch and then as Executive Assistant to the Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel for Officer Deployment and Distribution. Rear Admiral Kohn commanded the replenishment oiler USS KALAMAZOO from August 1976 until December 1977. He assumed command of the aircraft carrier USS FORRESTAL in March 1979. In September 1980 Rear Admiral Kohn became the Chief, Current Operations Division, Commander in Chief Pacific. In July 1981 he assumed the duty as Director, Logistics-Security Assistance Directo- rate also on the staff of the Commander in Chief Pacific. Rear Admiral Kohn was assigned as Commander Carrier Group THREE in October 1982. Rear Admiral Kohn has been awarded the Legion of Merit, Defense Superior Service Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star, two individual Air Medals, thirty Strike Flight Air Medals for over 300 missions in Vietnam, the Navy Commendation and Achievement Medals with Combat V , three Navy Unit Commendations, the Vietnam Government Gallantry Cross, and the Vietnam Service Medal with nine campaign stars. Rear Admiral Kohn and his wife Marilyn have four children: Jenni- fer, Peter, Thomas and Edwin. COMCARGRU 3 141