Rogers (DD 876) - Naval Cruise Book

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Present Executive Dfficer LCDR Elbert E. Flesher, USN l.i0'11ll'I1ilI1l f'oriirimrii1'-:- 1 1u-Lain-r lf-1 n 1'Hil Hrwtfitmff- if the' lfnito-11 Sluts-r. Nami .Kimi a-my Mu-r into-ptim: hi-. worn minsimi me nn 1'Zn:a1i.gn ht- r-- porto-i1 nimnrti thi- USS JUHN STON 11111 H211 who-rv he uw 1. tht- 1'I1e-rtron1t's N1nifitf-ri.'inv-- Uffifrl' 111 1902 iii' !'o'1H1!'tv'i1 'ii tha- USS WA1,l.M'1'2 1. 1.lNli 11111711111 im' lQ'I1111U1'cl1'N .lim while JOHNSTON finish.-11 hw: I-'RAM voiiwiwaiori In 151133 he !'Q'l111'11k'l1i11?i1v' JOHNSTON its CIC' U1'1'it'e-r int! inter flvvtvd up to Upvxxitioris 011161-I' LCDR 1'.1t'5i1k'1 St1'4 signmt-nt in 1964 was with th.- staff of Destroyer Division Ltd us Operations Officer 1-'rom there ht' uttvtitieti the 1' S N.iv.11 Post Graduate School in Mon terey. California. receiving .1 bachelors degree in operation analysis, in 1968 he served with COM.-XSWFORP.-XC Staff as the Fixed Systems Analyst From there he went to COM- FIRSTFLT in 1970 as assistant ASW Officer. He then reported aboard ROGERS as the XO in 1971. His decorations and serv- ice ribbons include the Natg- Achievement Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. the Vietnam Service Ribbon. and the National Defense Medal.

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Present Commanding Officer LCDR Lee A. Rauch. USN LCDR Lee A, Rauch, USN, a native of Jersey City, Neff' Jersey, attended Colgate .Uni- versity and was commissioned through the R.O.C. Program H1 August 1958. LCDR Rauch began his naval career on the USS MCCLELLAND QDE-75Olwhere he was Operations Officer and First Lieutenant. From July 1959 to August 1961, he served as Operations Officer on USS CAMP QDER-2513. At that time LCDR Rauch was released to inactive duty and remained in U.S. Naval Reserve until Sep- tember of 1963. From 1963 to 1965 he was assigned first to the precom- missioning detail and later as Combat information Center Of- ficer aboard the USS ANNAP- OLIS QAGMR-ll. In November, 1965 he was transferred tem- porarily to the USS MASSEY IDD-7783 while awaiting the convening date for U.S. Naval Destroyer School in Newport, Rhode lsland. Completing Destroyer School in July, 1966 he reported to the USS CHEVALIER QDD- S05i where he served as Opera- tions Officer and Navigator, ln March 1968, hQ relieved as lixecutive Officer and Navi- Eator aboard USS ROWAN CDD- mm. LCDR Rauch came to the ROGERS from Washington, D.C, where he was Assistant for Pro- Rrams to the Director, ASW and Strategic Warfare Development Division in OPNAV, LCDR Rauch's wife is the former Marianne Sinto of Rye, New York. The h Children' Y ave three

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x Y xii ji I Officers if LCDR R. J. Graff Weapons Officer LT M. D. Barker Chief Engineer LT A. J. Melanson Operations Officer LTfjg5 J. E. DeKorne Communications Officer LTfjg5 C. D. Elliott, III MPA LTfjgJ P. Gillette Supply Officer LTCjgi C. M. Kern ASW Officer LTfjgi G. L. Krum DCA LTfjgb C. G. Meyer CIC Officer