Gridley (DLG 21) - Naval Cruise Book

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COMDESRON 19 ENLISTED STAFF RMCS HALE Jt ' J SD2 CONDE SPCM HOLLIS RM2 FRERICHS YNl GREGORY YN:i BABICKY CYN3 PRUDEN CYN3 BOWERS TN SO LIS

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COMDESRON 19 STAFF LCDR READ Chief of Staff LT FLEMING Weapons LT LONERGAN Medical M LT ERICK Chaplain LTJG HASKELL Communicator WO PATTERSON Electronics Maintenance GRIDLEY is the Flagship of Commander Destroyer Squadron NINETEEN, Captain James L. COOK, Jr. His Staff consists of six officers and nine enlisted men whose job is to support the Commander and aid the nine ships of the Squadron in the areas of Operations, Communications, Electronics, Engineering, Medicine, and Morale. During this deployment the Staff was embarked temporarily in USS BAINBRIDGE (DLG (N)25), USS HENRY B. WILSON (DDG7), and USS WADDELL (DDG24), as well as GRIDLEY, and was assigned duties as the Tonkin Gulf Search and Rescue Com- mander and the South Vietnam Naval Gunfii ' e Support Commander. During GRIDLEY ' s visit to Australia and New Zealand, COMDESRON 19 was in charge of the ships visiting Adelaide and later assumed duties as the Coral Sea Celebration Task Group Commander. GRIDLEY is ideally suited to be a Scjuadron Flagship because of her Unit Commander Accomodations and looks forward to having the Commodore on boai ' d permanently wliile operating in the Eastern Pacific. r 1

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER JSi Commander James F. Kelly, Jr. was born November 18, 1930 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was graduated from Southern Connecticut State College in 1952 with a Bachelor of Science Degi-ee. Following his commissioning as an Ensign in March 1953 at the Officer Candidate School, Newport, Rhode Island, he served in USS HAWKINS (DD-873) in 1953-1954 following this with a tour as Operations Officer on the staff of Commander Destroyer Division 142. After serving as a communications instructor at the Naval Schools Command, Newport, Commander Kelly attended the Advanced CIC Officers ' School at Glenview, Illinois in 1956 and served in USS TARAWA (CVS-40) during the period 1956-1957. In 1958-1959, he was Executive Officer of USS WESTCHESTER COLINTY (LST-11G7). From 1960 until 1963, Commander Kelly was on the staff of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor as Assistant Sliip Operations Officer. Upon return to the mainland, he joined the staff of Commander Destroyer Squadron 19 as Operations and Weapons Officer. Prior to joining CRIDLEY, Commander Kelly received the Master of Science Degree in Management from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California in 1966. He reported aboard CRIDLEY as 1-icecutive Officer in October 1966 and received a spot promotion to his present rank in November 1966. Commander Kelly holds the Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon, tlie ietnam Campaign Medal, tlie ietnam Service Medal, the American Defense Service Medal and the Navy Occupation Medal. V ■