Long Beach (CGN 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER I , ...?,-.157 P-13,21 4:g :' '- ill UU ' -Qbx ff-. I -'12 -Lou? ei, Captain Hal C. Castle, USN, was born on 26 December 1921 in Peoria, Illinois, and is the son of Mrs. Helen M. Castle and the late Karl E. Castle. After attending St. Mary's College in Winona, Minne- sota, for a year, he won an apointment to the United States Naval Academy and was commissioned an Ensign in June 1943. His yirst duty station was the destroyer PHELPS, the first ship to anchor in Japanese territorial waters in World War II. Captain Castle,s postwar duties included tours of duty aboard the destroyers BRISTOL and DICKSON. In 1948, he returned to the United States Naval Postgraduate School and earned a Master of Science degree in Metallurgy from Carnegie Institute of Technology. He obtained cruiser experience when he served aboard WOR- CESTER as Air Defense Oyficer and subsequently as Gunnery Officer. After leaving WORCESTER, he served for two years as assistant Terminal Ballistics Officer at the United States Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia. In july 1956, Captain Castle became Executive Oficer of the destroyer WILLIAM M. WOOD, and in 1958 took command of the destroyer STRONG. Upon leaving STRONG in December 1958, he attended the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, and Nuclear Power School at New London, Connecticut. Prior to reporting to LONG BEACH as Prospective Executive Officer in April 1960, he received additional training in naval reactor prototype operation. Captain Castle is married to the former Martha Shelton of Wash- ington, D.C. They have four children. KE x

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wt f 1 we I . . HH' Q, H 1r l ZZ?? Captain Frank H. Price, Ir.. USN, was born in Van Lear, Ken-' tucky, on 11 Iune 1919, the son of Mrs. Edna P. Price and the late Frank H. Price. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy and was commissioned an Ensign in February 1941. Captain Price,s first duty station was aboard the destroyer WALKE, where he served as Assistant Communications Oficer and as Gunnery Assistant. His wartime duties included tours aboard two destroyers: O'BRIEN, which was sunk in the Pacihc during World War II, and SH UBRICK, which was severely damaged by bombing in the invasion of Sicily and which took part in the invasions of Nor- mandy and southern F ranch. His postwar duties included tours in the Naval Gun Factory in Washington, D. C., the United States Naval Postgraduate School where he studied Ordnance Engineering, the battleship MISSOURI and the Bureau of Ordnance. Following duty as Commanding Officer of the destroyer BEALE, Captain Price at- tended the National War College and then served as Assistant Chief, MAAG, Spain, Commander Destroyer Division 362, Carrier Division 18 Chief of Stag, and as a member ofthe staf of COM OPTEVF OR in N orfolk, Virginia. In June 1962, Captain Price reported to Director, Division of Reactor Development in Germantown, Maryland, prior to reporting aboard LONG BEACH as her new Commanding Officer. Captain Price is married to the former Iane Vaughan of I enkins Kentucky. They have two children. , COMMANDING OFFICER ner' J.-'If fm 1' F- .-- o f 'L HMI. A 42,

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