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CAPT. GEORGE P. McCLOSKEY, U.S.N.R. CHAPLAIN USS LONG BEACH (CGN-9) Capt. George P. McCloskey, USNR was born in Carbondale, Pennsyvlania on 14 Sep- tember 1934, son of Mr. Mrs. Harry McCloskey. He graduated from St. Rose High School in Carbondale, Pennsylvania in June 1952. In 1954, he entered St. Mary ' s Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland and on 11 June 1960, he was ordained as a catholic priest. On 27 August 1961, Capt. McCloskey was commissioned as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the Naval Reserve. He subsequently entered active duty service on 20 June 1979, and reported aboard the nuclear powered guided missile cruiser U.S.S. LONG BEACH (CGN-9) in January 1984 as the ship ' s chaplain. Capt. McClos- key was frocked to his present rank on 31 March 1984. As a reservist for 16 years, Capt. McCloskey served at activities such as Naval Training Center, San Diego; Naval Training Center, Great Lakes; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia; Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune; and Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Va. to name just a few. Capt. McCloskey ' s significant earlier assignments included a tour of duty in May 1977 as a member of the Naval Reserve Chaplain Corps selection board in Washington D.C. He was the senior chaplain and Catholic chaplain at NAS, Brunswick, Maine from 20 June 1979 to 1 July 1982 and held the same title at NAS, Agana, Guam from August 1982 to December 1983. During his naval career, Capt. McCloskey has received the Navy Unit Commendation Medal. 3t: Qcorge fe Ul Closkaf Jld olic GiaplaiiL VM i I
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Early on the morning of 13 January 1984, 1,000 hearty Sailormen and Marines manned their Sea Detail stations or stood to quarters for leaving port. The Bible says there is a time for every purpose, and this was the time for saying goodby and for looking ahead. Even though it was hard to face the prospect of not seeing loved ones for months, there was excitement in the air. The months of waiting and training and inspections were over. The mission we were embarking on was our reason for existence as a ship and as a crew. None of us were sure what challenges lay ahead or just how he would react to them, but as I stood on the bridge, I had a feeling of confidence and of great pride. This ship and this crew were the most capable and the best trained of any I had ever sailed with. The events which filled the next six and a half months and which we have tried to represent in this book have done nothing but make my feelings stronger. In real world confrontations with potential enemies and in continuing training, we met every challenge head on and we triumphed. No book, regardless of its length could tell the entire story of a deployment. What we have tried to do instead, is to provide a flavor of the fun and the work; the excitement and the boredom. There was plenty of each of these to go around. We have also attempted to write to readers who are trying to form a better picture of what a son or husband did while he was away for so long as well as to those of us who in years to come will want to look back and remember what it was like or maybe what we looked like before we put on weight or lost our hair. Regardless, what you see is a crew of American fighting men, dedicated to maintaining freedom of the sea and to serving their country. Men for whom the equivalent of a late night run to the 7-Eleven for more beer was four hours keeping a tossing ship 150 feet away from a store ship in the black of night while shipmates wrestled half-ton pallets of food and supplies across the foamy chasm between. It was men staring at radar scopes whose voice on the radio meant life or death to pilots miles away, men standing watch six hours on and six hours off for months at a time, and men standing watch on nuclear reactors in one hundred degree heat and humidity. Why do men do these things? Why do wives send them off? There are as many answers as men, but i think a big part of it is that these Americans realize that freedom isn ' t free! If our children are to grow up to enjoy the things we enjoy, to have the chance to make an even better life for themselves, we, today must make an investment. So here they are! The crew of the U.S.S. LONG BEACH and their ship, the ONLY REAL CRUISER IN THE NAVY! Here is a crew that John Paul Jones or Chester Nimitz would be proud to serve with, and one that I am honored to have had a chance to lead. Fred Triggs Captain, United States Navy Commanding
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