George Washington (CVN 73) - Naval Cruise Book

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Operations 4 AC1 Clifford Ware ACI(AW) Rich Wisniewski ACI(AW) Christopher Zedalis AC2 Wallace Ansarl AC2(AW) James Brennan AC2 Lenny Burridge AC2(AW SW) Clifford Robertson AC2 Andrew Sanford AC2 Robert Solock AC2 Kristian Vagnarelli AC2 Preston Young

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CDR Ernest Hawkins LCDR Robert DeGennaro LCDR Rick Hostetler LT John Arnold LT Mark Gates ACCS(AW SW) Jeffrey Fabian ACC(AW) Wesley Bomyea DSC(SW) Charles Warrem AC1 Scott Hankinson Sometime after midnight, a young pilot enters CATCC looking for the reassuring voice on the other end of his “Yes sir, may I help you? “Yeah,” says the young pilot, a little £ f shaken, “I just wanted to say thanks. It V was pretty scaiy out there tonight, but that aci(AW sw) Darren Hood was the best approach I’ve ever had!” Compliments are great, but what the €1 W ' pilot didn’t realize was that his approach was one of more than 4,500 CATCC controlled night landings completed since the beginning of the year. The three branches of CATCC: Air Operations, Carrier Controlled Approach (CCA) and the Air Transfer Office (ATO) performed flawlessly throughout woik-ups and during GW’s maiden deployment Beginning with a score of 99.7 percent on their Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization (NATOPS) exam to three consecutive perfect scores on launch and recovery exercises, the “CATCC 73 team” accepted nothing short of excellence. AC1 George Murphy GW conducted more than 450 launch and recovery cycles while deployed, all of which were coordinated, briefed and controlled by CCA. More than 100 flight plans were filed for destinations from England to Oman, while keeping CVW-7 and the bridge team informed of airspace restrictions through a first-of-its-kind computer generated graphic hot-area sheet. The ATO branch of OC coordinated the movement of more than 6,000 passengers, 700,000 pounds of mail and 1.6 million pounds of cargo. Whether escorting newly arriving personnel or handling VIP’s including the President and First Lady, the demanding job kept passengers moving safely on and off the ship at all times. The maiden deployment for the “CATCC 73 team” was a resounding success, and proved they could maintain the hectic pace of deployment, while asserting the fact that they are “The Finest in the Fleet” 428 Operations OC Division

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AC3 Billy Allen AC3 Country Beard AC3 Eric DJigounian AC3 Glenn Gribble AC3 Damien Howard AC3 Jonathan Jones Sr. AC3 Stephen Parker AC3 Randall Turton ACAN Myron Stokes ACAA Scott Ballard ACAA Jason Smith ACAA Donald Vatick