Kearsarge (LHD 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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Colonel Richard P. Mills United States Marine Corps Comrnanding Officer 24th MEUCSOCD Colonel Mills, a graduate of Franklin and Marshall Cbllege, was comrnissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1975 via the Officers Candidate School Follovving the Basic School, he reported to 1st Bat- talion, 5th where he served as a Platoon Com- mander, Company Executive Officer and the Battalion t Adjutant. During 1978 and 1979, he served vvith Head- quarters Battalion, 3rd Marine Division on Okinawa. Upon his return to OONUS in 1979, he was assigned to the 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, MCRD, Parris Island as a Series Commander. In 1980, he served as the Battalion S-4 and subsequently as the Comnianding Officer of D Cbmpany. Following AWS in 1983, he reported to the 2nd Marine Division where he comrnanded A Company, 1st Battalion, 6th and later as the Regimental Assistant Operations Officer. From 1986 until 1989, he was assigned to the Officer Assingment Branch, Headquarters Marine Corps. After completing a subsequent school assignment, he stood a one-year tour as a Senior lVIilitary Observer with the United Nations 'lruce Supervision Orginization CUNTSOD in Palestine. Returning to OONUS in 1991, he reported to Marine Air Group 29, 2nd MAW for duty as the Air!Ground Liason Officer. From 1993 until 1995, he served as the Operations Officer for the 26th MEU CSOCJ. He also as the Operations Officer, Special Operations Group CSOTGD, ll IVLEF. From 1995 until 1997, he was assigned to the staff of Comniander, Sixth Fleet in Gaeta, Italy, as the Amphibious Exercise Officer and Assistant Fleet Marine Officer. In 1997, he returned to the 2nd Marine Division for duty as Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion, 6th and concurrently as Cbrnmanding Officer, BLT 3!6, 24th MEU CSOCJ. In 1999, he departed 2nd Marine Division for duty as a student in the United Kingdom. His most recent assignment was as Officer in Charge, SOTG, H MEF. He holds a Masters Degree in Business and has attended the Amphibious Warfare School, the Marine Corps Cornmand and Staff Cbllege, the Naval Warfare Cbllege, and the Royal Cbllege of Defense Studies, London, England. Colonel Mills' personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal Ctwo Gold Stars in lieu of second and third awardsj, The Joint krvice Cknnmendation Medal, and the Navy-Marine Cbrps Ckimmendation Medal. Cblonel Mills is married te the former Patricia Jacobson of New York, New York. I lllll I'Xll

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p Captain Steven C. Rowland United States Navy Commodore L -pfT'-t X flrJ?w. . , il H1 W M TA.. .nf . Nxgcc. -cgi I, 4- -rf'-N . ff J Ckiptain Rowland graduated from the University of Roch- and was commissioned as Ensign through the. Naval Reserve Officers 'lmaining Cbrps CNROTC3 DFOETHIU IH Mal' 1978. He was assigned temporarily to USS PORTLAND CLSD 373 for two months prior to attending Surface Warfare Of- + ficers Xhool CBasic3 and Chmmunications School in New- port, Rhode Island. From Januaiy 1979 to Januaijv 1982, Cktptain Rowland served as the CorTm1LUUC'dU0m Officer and Damage Cbntrol Assistant in USS HERMITAGE CISD 343, making two deployments to the Mediterranean ka and one to the North Atlantic. Captain Rowland attended the US. Naval Postgiaduate School from March 1982 through March 1934 and was awarded a M.S. in Operations Research. He then attended Surface Warfare Officers Sch00l CDepartment Head3 followed by pipeline combat systems training at Dam Neck, Virginia. Cz11Jt-Hin Rfowkmd served as Cbmbat Systems Officer in USS BOONE CFFG 283 from January 1985 until October' 1985 and then as First Lieutenant in USS PORTLAND CIASD 373 from November 1986 to May 1988. Dllfing these mms he deployed twice to the Persian Gulf and once to the North Atlantic. Following his depzu'tment head tours, Ckiptain Rowland was assigned as an instructor in the Mathemat' ics Department of the US. Naval Academy from June 1988 to Januaijv 1991. Returning to S921 duty' he served as Exmutive Officer in USS SHREV EPORT CLPD 123 from April 1991 to Jtme 1992. Joining the ship at the tail end of Desert Storm, SHEVHPORT made a quick turnaround deployment to the Mediteria- nean. i RCIXPITWSA' U1 VVHShiUJ-ZUJH, DIL he was assingned as an operations research analyst in the Office Of the Secretary of Defense CProgram Analysis and Evaluation3 from June 1992 to May 1994. Captain Rowland attended comand pipeline tiaining in Newport, Rhode Island from June to Septembelj 1994, then stood up I 're-I kmrnmissioning Detachment CPCD3 Carter Hall CISD 503. He was subsf-Xluentb diverted to USS GERMANTOWN CLSD 423, assuming coinmand in March 1995. Homeported in SH-Qebo' Japan, GIGRMANTOWN deployed twic A1 'e - F' ' - . . 1 y' - I ' m' P 1 in support of major international exercises Ifollovx mg hi-'N C0 mand tour, fktptain Rowland served as Fxecutivt Off' ' J. . . ef lC01'1l1 oss NAssAU ci.HA 43fl'OlT1J21I1U2U'y 1997tO iptember 1998. NASSAU was the 1 - - ' A' . L UNLU lflfii' for the March non-combatant evacuation of Albaflm- Returning to XAf2lSl'llI1lL, U3l1, DC' he w-is hai ' ' T' 2 U!-Ted to the staff of the Chief of Naval OperatioI1S fmm October 1998 to September 2000. He served fiist as a branch head then as Deputy Director, Total F0199 Prograrninizig, Manpower, and Inforination Resource Management Division iN123. Ckiptain Rowland's peisonal awards inclde the Legion of lVIe1'it, Defense Meritorious Service Medill- Meritorious Service Medal fwith Gold St-11-3 N 1 . , A , V V1 . .s T' - 1 f 1 , 2lV,V Commendation lVIedal fVVltll two hold Staisl. IW - Achievement Medal Cwith one Gold Slar3 and various qqlyynmigll -.md gm-Vid. Inuhls' L . Y , g Ckiptaln Rowland is married to the former Ellen Phelps of Niagara Falls New York. They' l121Ve thru children, John 6103, VVilliam 61553, and lVIarg'a1-et flop, Q ll'l'

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HISTORY ' USS E C1862-1864D June 19, 1864. ullwz' ffm! f'lx'4u11'x.11'Qv,2 .wwf ilflw' N1'f'fV1i1f,Q iff'-'f i ff-'f'f ff 7' flfhff' ffff' 'ii-mfbl JMC, M NIU' lun-My !fm,f,Z.l,,.t,lj ,Ziff y14pvr1m'z'1y in yfwyffy, gfiznafzizg If 1'11ff14c'1m1y In c'fu.w Aw ffm! bw' l'ff'Z'L'71-1.21011XIIICOIX mzffff ffnwfifff Jiffy iff !?UI.HI-fffillllx' mzzgv. Wa' nntp' f1z1m'fz'c's zmlmf flu' fzffzuzzzlizgv ICH spam! pfaxxwxmz' by our wzwzzj '... Authur Sinclair, Lieutenant, Cbnfederate States Navy, Crevvmember of CSS Alzlbtlmil The first ship to the name Kearsarge established her' superiority in design and crew in a 90 minute sea battle dLu'ing the Civil War. The Union ship Kearsarge, commanded by Captain John A. Winslowg and Cbnfederate ship Alabama, cominanded by Captain Raphael faced off in the En- glish Channel off the coast of Cherbourg. Kearsarge, though she approached a worthy opponent, was possessed of certain advantages includingt 11-inch guns, a pivoting gun at her' stern which proved deadly for the Alabama, a hull protected by metal chains C ll e am sill, ilu' yfrf1'1ztc'1'5fly1A21g Qffifi'lIf71 hw' fzrnzm' L'UZ'L'7'1-llg qfrlw wzvmyg lm! no f'Jl'?lCH'dII-U71 m'c'm's... noted LT Sinclairl, and a Crew of 163 to A1abama's 149 Con those old sloops-of-war, as today, every Sailor' countsD. Alabama did get off a shot that could have disabled Kearsarge, but the 55-pound shell embedded itself in Kearsarge's stern post and failed to explode. This souvenir was presented to President Lincoln, and is in fact preserved today in Washington, DC. Throughout the brief battle, Kearsarge maintained an aggresive posture and Alabama was finlly forced to surrender aniidst chokingly thick clouds of gtmpowder and trails of splintered hull and mast wreckage in the water. At 1224, Alabama Went down by the stern and Kearsarge commenced rescue efforts to recover her opponents crew members. The original Kearsarge continued to sail until she was lost on a reef in the Caribbean Seag but she was not the last Kearsarge to offer years of faithful and enthusiastic service to her country. C1898-19201 1 Uss ECBBSJ The battleship Kearsarge was built side-by-side with her sister ship, Kentucky. She was 368 feet in length and 72 feet in beam, with maximum speed of sixteen knots. Her armament included four 13-inch and four 8-inch breech loading rifles with secondary battery of twenty 6-pounders, four Gatling guns, and one field piece. Her crew consisted of 39 officers and 618 en- listed. The ship was ultimately commanded by Captain Herbert Winslow, United States Navyg the only surviving son of the cap- min Of the Origiwl Kearsm-ge: Captain Winslow sailed Kearsavge Th I i ll M 1 ui I pw A L 1 around the world -from 1907 to 1909 as a member of President . eoc or e U ,vc ts C 11 cat White li lect. The Great Willtlf I+ leet's nussion was to Show the entire Wgrld the power of the linited Navy, and to demonstrate that although militarily mighty, Aniei-iga intended '00 maintain international. diplomatic relations as much as possible. Naval presence - the abiiify to be physically present at any location within a matter of days, and the ability to remain on station indefinitely - a critical mission of todays Navy as well, especially the amphibious Navy. ' ' Kf2l1'S2U'21f2 CBB 59 waslclecoirunissiomxl in 1920, and was converted to a crane ship. She served in this filllxh' fm' UVGI' twenty YGUS, illdlnil' ln the construction of several World War II battleships. She beczmie C1399 S ll-J 0- 1 CAB U When Shi? 11215-S011 her illustrious name on to an aircraft carrier' CCVS 'SSD in 19422 lll IYIX