Gearing (DD 710) - Naval Cruise Book

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.., -............... EA LANE JR C ommanclmg Officer C0 M MA N DER QQ Cdr Edward A Lane, Jr USN assumed command of the USS GEAR- ING on 25 July 1956 The GEARING 1S his third commandg he was previ- ously skipper of the USS HOQUIAM QPF-51, a frigate which participated in amph1b1ous landings at Wonwan and lwon during the Korean War, and of the USS STRIBLING QDD-8671, another destroyer of the Atlantic Fleet. Commander Lane came to the Navy in November 1940 as an Ensign, USNR, from the U S Merchant Marine He 1S a 1939 graduate of the New York State Maritime College and served after graduation with the U S Lines, obtaining his license as Chief Mate U S Merchant Marine. During World War II he served as Damage Control Officer on the USS LASSEN QAE 131 a repair ship which served as flagship for the Com- mander Service Force, Atlantic Fleet During his tour on the HOQUIAM as Commanding Officer, Commander Lane was g1venaLetter of Commen- dation with Combat Distinguishing Device The HOQUIAM was decom- missioned and turned over to the Republic of Korea on 7 October 1951. In February 1952 Commander Lane assumed command of the USS STRIBLING, a unit of Destroyer Squadron 6 which operated in Atlantic and Mediterranean waters He served on the staff of the Commander Carrier Division 18 from December 1952 to .Tune 1954 when he became a planning officer on the staff of the Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Fleet. In September Cdr. Lane will leave the Gearing to join the staff of Com- PhibLant. Commander and Mrs. Lane have three sons and two daughters: Deder, 183 Katharine, 145 Edward, 113 Stephen, 83 and Barbara, 4. Commander Lane's parents are Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Lane of Hartsdale, N. Y.

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Execulive 0ffYcer LI E UTENA NT E.W.MUlI.IGAN Lieut. Eugene W. Mulligan, USN, has been Executive Officer of the USS GEARINGsince November 2.2, 1957. He came to the GEARING from an- other destroyer, the USS WILLARD KEITH QDD-775l, where he served for 15 months as Operations Officer. Lieutenant Mulligan was born in Wilkes -Barre, Pa. , and is a 1947 grad- uate of the U. S. Naval Academy. He served for a year on the aircraft carrier, the USS LEYTE QCVA-3Zl, then in 1948 was sent to the Na.vy's Russian Language School at Anacostia. in Washington, D. C. He was sta- tioned in Washington for three years, leaving in the summer of 1951 for the West Coast. There he was a part of the pre-commissioning detail of the USS PITTSBURGH QCA-72l, a heavy cruiser which was being brought out of mothballs at Bremerton, Wash. The PITTSBURGH became a, part of the Atlantic Fleet the following spring, and Lieutenant Mulligan served on the cruiser for three years in gunnery and operations, becoming CIC Officer in 1953. While on the PITTSBURGH, Lieutenant Mulligan made three Mediterranean cruises , including two trips through the Suez to Indian Ocean ports of Madras, lndiag Colombo, Ceylon, and Karachi, Pakistan. In 1954, Lieutenant Mulligan was ordered to the Naval Academy where for two years he taught Russian in the Department of Foreign Languages. He spent two summers at Middlebury College, in Vermont, for Russian refresher courses. From Annapolis he went to destroyer duty with the KEITH, a unit of Destroyer Squadron ZZ which operated in the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean. Lieutenant and Mrs. Mulligan have one son, Gregory, who is 1-1f2. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene W. Mulligan of Kingston, Pa.