Firedrake (AE 14) - Naval Cruise Book

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He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Master of Science De- gree in Science and Mathematics. Captain Bennett has received many campaign and service medals for his wartime and peacetime service in the Navy, Among them are the Navy Unit Citation Qwith three starsyg Navy Commendation Medal ig Syn- gman Rhee Division, Vietnam Service Medal, Armed Forces Ex- peditionary Forcesg Korean Theatre Q six starsyg China Service, National Defense Serviceg United Nations Ribbon, World War II Vic- tory, and Atlantic and Pacific Theatre Service, During the Korean Con- flict, he was a member of Task Force 77 on USS VALLEY FORGE, taking part in the battle for the Pusan perimeter and in the landing at Inchon and Wonson, He was in command 419642 of Patrol Squadron FOUR when it won the Battle Efficiency Pennant and the Anti-Sub- marine Warfare Trophy, Other duty tours for him have been Com- manding Officer, Patrol Squadron FORTY-TWOg USS HORNET, USS BIRMINGHAM, and Operations Analyst on the Staff of Commander Second Fleet. Captain Bennett and his Wife, the former Minnie Jo Crittenden were married 3 August 1968, They have five children. Miss Lynn Bennett, a Fulbright Scholar, in India, Earl Bennett, atending Stock- bridge School, Interlaken, Massachusetts, Arthur K, Bennett, III, attending the U.S. Naval Academy, Robert D, Sullivan, attending North Texas State College, 'Miss Patricia L. Sullivan, residing in Washing- ton, D,C.

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COMMANDING OFFICER 1 CAPTAIN ARTHUR K. BENNETT, JR. Captain Arthur K. Bennett, Jr., came to the USS FIREDRAKE from Washington, D.C,, where he served as Director of Office of Information Systems Planning and Development in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, Prior to this position, he served on the staff of the Special Assist- ant to the Secretary of the Navy, Before being assigned to the SASN Staff, Captain Bennett served on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet where he was active in the establishment of a Command Systems Staff, He also or- ganized the Navy Information Center QNAVICQ while on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in the field of command and control, He was a member of one of the first groups of naval officers to apply computer systems to the problems of command while in Computer Programming and Operations Analysis in 1959 at the David Taylor Model Basinfin Maryland, Earlier, he served as an Operations Analyst on the staff of the Commander, Second Fleet, A naval aviator, Captain Bennett is a 1946 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and flight training 11949-505 at the Pensacola, Florida, and Corpus Christi, Texas, Naval Air Stations, He is also a graduate of the Navy's Photo Interpretation School and the Operations Research postgraduate curriculum at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. Prior to his Navy Service, he attended the Northern Michigan University and the Michigan College of Mining and Technology qnow the Michigan Technological Universityl at Hough- ton in his home state of Michigan,

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER LIEUTENANT COMMANDER KENNETH A. BARNABY Lieutenant Commander Kenneth A, Barnaby, a native of Norfolk, Virginia, assumed duties as Executive Officer in January of 1969 after having completed a tour as Operations Officer on the USS FIREDRAKE Q AE-141. He initially reported aboard on 17 March 1967 after com- pleting a three and a half year touron the Staff of Commander Service Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, where he was the Force Communications Plans Officer. While serving as Communications Plans Officer on the Staff of Commander Service Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet from 27 June 1964 to 21 February 1967, LCDR Barnaby formulated the initial communication installation planning for U.S. Naval Support Activity Danang, Republic of Vietnam, Commissioned as Ensign upon completion of Officer Candidate School in February 1960, he reported for' his first duty station at Little Creek, Virginia, where he was assignedto Beachmaster Unit TWO, While assigned to the Amphibious Force, LCDR Barnaby made two deployments to the Mediterranean and numerous deployments to the Caribbean area as Officer-in-Charge of the Naval Beach Group Detachment. His three and a half year tour at Beachmasters was followed by Naval Communications School at Newport, Rhode Island,