Ingersoll (DD 652) - Naval Cruise Book

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5-. I A. EQ. :. I 1 1 . 1 f Q , 5 I Q. PRESEN co. .I ' ADI james I. STROI-IM Commander, USN Commanding Officer Commander STROHM graduated from the Naval Academy in june 1951, and was subsequently ordered to USS NOBLE QAPA 2181 for duty. Serving in NOBLE for three years, Commander STROHM successively held billets as Gunnery Officer, Communi- cations Officer, and First Lieutenant. While attached to NOBLE he participated in several large scale amphibious operations during the Korean War, and he spent a total of 14 months in and about Korea from june 1951 until july 1953. Commander STROHM's next assignment was also at sea, this time as Weapons Of- ficer of USS FLETCHER QDD 4455. While attached to FLETCHER, he participated in the TACHIN islands evacuation and numerous fleet and inter-type exercises . Following his first sea tours, Commander STROHM was ordered to the Service Schools Command at Creat Lakes, Illinois, where he served as Curriculum Depart- ment Head, Gunnery O1'ficer's School from july 1956 until june 1958. Subsequent to this assignment, Commander STROHM returned to sea as Executive Officer of USS EDMONDS CDE 4065 and, as such, he participated in the Quemoy Crisis operations of 1958. His next assignment took him ashore again, where in july 1960, he reported to the Superintendent of the U.S . Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California for duty under instruction in the Weapons Engineering curriculum and he graduated in june 1962 with a BS in Electrical Engineering. His postgraduate education completed, Commander STROHM was ordered to USS CONQUEST CMSO -1881 for duty as Commanding Officer and he so served until Decem- ber 196-1. Following this assignment, he was ordered to the staff of the Commander of the U.S. Naval Air Forces, Pacific, in San Diego, where he served from january 1965 until November 1966, as a staff member in the Ship's Material Section. He assumed command of INCERSOLL on 21 December 1966. Commander STROHM is married to the former Betty R. KAUFFMAN and they re- side with their two children, Leslie, 12, and Andrea, 7, in San Diego, California. an0lQl0on..loanl-av:

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COMMA DING OFFICER -2-v -'-gf.-1.-F--,-si.1,1-.-as::i-::'.QQsm:s'.2aaita.:s--f 14:-'+' ' 'rrgigi' V ,. ' - I. Commander Henry E. DAVIES, jr, Commander DAVIES is a veteran of 25 years naval service. He attended the University of Michi- gan and holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from Yale University. In addition, he has attended U.S . Naval General Line School, Guided Missile School, Fort Bliss, Texas, and the U.S. Postgraduate School, Monterey. Upon graduation from college in 1945, he was commissioned an Ensign in the naval reserve and he augmented in the Navy in 1947. He served in the engineering departments of USS QUEENS CAPA 1035, USS TACONIC CAGC 175, USS IARVIS QDD 7995 and as Engineer Officer of USS DAMATO CDDE 8715. In july 1950, a tour in USS GHERADY CDMS 305 as Mine Warfare Officer was cut short by the Korean War. He placed USS PIRATE QAM 2755 back in com- mission as Executive Officer. This tour ended in 58 days when PIRATE was lost in mine sweeping opera- tions in Wonson Harbor, Korea. CDR DAVIES received the Silver Star Medal for his actions in assisting his crew and that of PLEDGE which was mined shortly after PIRATE . The ship received the Presidential Unit Citation for her part in the Korean War. After attending Guided Missile School, he served in turn as Training Officer, Executive Officer, and Commanding Officer of the Navy's then new Guided Missile School in Pomona, California. His next tour of duty was Assistant for Surface to Air Missiles on the Staff of Commander Operational Development Force Know COMOPTEV- FOR5. Here he was project officer during the evaluation of the first operations missile ships, USS BOSTON QCAG 15, USS CANBERRA CCAG 25, USS GYATT QDDG 15 and USS GALVESTON QCAG 35. This was followed by tours in GALVESTON and in USS TOPEKA QCAG 85 as Missile Officer. Upon completing a one year course at Monterey, CDR DAVIES spent 2 years at the U.S . Naval Academy as an administrator and an instruc- tor in the Weapons Department. From there he reported as Weapons Officer in USS OKLAHOMA CITY CCLG 55, 7th Fleet Flagship. Commander DAVIES spent many days at sea while INGERSOLL participated in many exercises, a midshipman cruise, and in combat off the coast of North Vietnam. He was relieved by Commander james J. STROHM, USN, on 21 December 1966 while INGERSOLL was underway on special operations in WESTPAC. That same day he was promoted to the rank of Captain. His next duty assignment was Commanding Officer, USS PIEDMONT CAD 175. xrggeuyn-:,,,q3',,vJ,,,v,.,,,-A-,.,.-1-,,.....,.,f-.J3,,,a.-V. -.n-L-may.. xxgna-M L..- - -A-Y.:-I ci. f W- -1- vaq- -ei - a - . .-seo-T K .-T-,1-:gn-na-4.-iv---1v:r-:xx-15-ua-1 io-.L 4.14,-1

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LCDR BORDEN was commissioned through the Reserve Officer Candidate QROCJ Program in August 1955, a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design. He spent his first five years of service at sea in the Gunnery Department of USS WARRINGTON CDD 8-135, and as Damage Control Officer on the USS BOSTON CCAC 11. It was during his tour on BOSTON that LCDR BORDEN augmented into the Regular Navy. Follow- ing this sea tour LCDR BORDEN served on the staff of Commander, Key West Test and Evaluation Detachment, Operational Test and Evaluation Force, from january 1961 until March 1963 as Assistant Analysis Officer and Division Officer. His tour at Key West completed, LCDR BORDEN re- ported aboard USS WASP CCVS 185 as ASW and Sonar Officer. While attached to WASP, LCDR BORDEN supervised the installation of the ANXSQS-23 sonar system. LCDR BORDEN served on WASP only 15 months before being ordered to US NAVAL Post- graduate School, Monterey, Where he com- pleted the one year Engineering Science course in june I965. His educational tour at Monterey com- .un-a--mune.-f..-..-,-..av.., ..-..-N W. ...W .... ff- 111-e gs-ravszncz.-fc-4 q2f '-3E'i'Eii' -f'- 1 .rn 3 fa 5'--'rdf LCDR Douglas H. BORDEN, Jr. pleted, he reported aboard the USS PROVI- DENCE CCLG 65, Flagship of the Command er, U.S. FIRST Fleet, as CIC Officer. In December 1966, he relieved CDR HAMRICK as Executive Officer of INGERSOLL. Commander T. D. I-IAMRICK OFFICERS Commander Thomas D. HAMRICK en- listed in the U.S. Navy and served on GUAM, at the end of World War II. Upon being dis charged in 1947, he entered Sam Houston State College at Huntsville, Texas where he received a BBA Degree just prior to being recalled to active duty during the Korean War in September 1950. After en- tering the first class of the Officer Candi- date School established by the Navy at New- port, Rhode Island, he was commissioned Ensign in 1951 and served aboard the USS ANTIETAM in Korean Waters. Other duty assignments have been in USS SHANGRILLA USS POINT CRUZ, USS BRAINE, Staff De- stroyer Squadron 21, USS NAVARRO, Staff Naval Forces Marianas, Staff Office of the Secretary of Defense Advance Research and Development Agency, Saigon, Naval Liaison Officer, Sixth U.S. Army in San Francisco, Executive Officer, USS INGERSOLL, and now on the Staff of Commandant Fifth Naval District at Norfolk, Virginia. Among his decorations and awards, he holds the Army Commendation Medal and Secretary of the Navy Commendation for Achievement.