Shreveport (LPD 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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1' COIVIIVIANDING OFFICER KEITH S. JONES CAPTAIN U.S. NAVY Captain Keith S. iCaseyJ Jones was commissioned in June 1960 and designated a Naval Aviator in February 1962. He has served in a number of light jet attack squadrons and has flown all Navy models of the A-4 and A-7 aircraft. His operational experience includes combat deployments to Southeast Asia aboard USS HANCOCK CCVA-191 in 1965 and aboard USS KITTY HAWK QCV-633 in 1970 and 1972. Captain Jones was Executive Officer and Commanding Officer of Attack Squadron ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-Tl-IBEE from 1973 through 1975. While serving with VA-153, he made one of the early Indian Ocean deployments aboard USS OBISKANY QCV-345. He was subsequently chosen to command the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron iBlue Angelsi and flew as Flight Leader in 1976 and 1977. He commanded Carrier Air Wing Three, making a Mediterranean deployment in 1978 embarked in USS SARATOGA CCV-601. Captain Jones holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School and is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College. His Washington, D.C. experience includes a tour of duty as the Aviation Commander Detailer, Naval Military Personnel Command. ln October 1981 he was promoted to the grade of Captain and selected for major sea command in November ot the same year. Captain Jones has been decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medals itwentyj, Navy Commendation Medals itwoi, the Navy Achievement Medal and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm and Silver Star. ln July 1981, Captain Jones commenced training tor command ot USS SHBEVEPOBT QLPD-129 and assumed command on 13 February 1982. Captain Jones and his wife Jan, both of whom hail from Shreveport, Louisiana, now reside in Burke, Virginia, a suburb ot Washington, D.C. They have three children, Celeste, Stuart and Brent. i

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i ff Y 224. .Q.z'.,,f My :'11ff.ii ,Li WY' EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMMANDER GEORGE R. HEIM UNITED STATES NAVY Commander George R. Heim was born in Douglas, Arizona on 28 September 1945. Raised in New Jersey, he graduated from Rutgers, the State University in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in psychology and received his naval commission through Officers' Candidate School in 1968. He graduated from the Surface Warfare Officer's School Department Head Course in 1971 and the Armed Forces Staff College in 1982. He was designated a Surface Warfare Officer in April 1973. His sea assignments before reporting aboard the amphibious ship USS SHREVEPORT LPD- 12 as Executive Officer include duty on the cruiser USS BELKNAP CG-26, the destroyers USS ALLEN M. SUMNER DD-692 AND USS NEW DD-818, and the destroyer tender USS PUGET SOUND AD-38. Ashore, his assignments include duty as Commanding Officer and Executive Officer NROTC Unit, Maritime Academy, Officer-in-Charge, Belknap Industrial Team, and Assistant Officer- in-Charge Fleet Maintenance Assistance Group, Norfolk. During the Vietnam War. he was Political Warfare and Psychological Operations advisor to the Second Coastal Zone Viet- namese Navy Headquarters Staff. Commander Helm wears the Bronze Star Medal with Combat Navy Commendation Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Navy Unit Commendation, Vietnamese Staff Service Honor Medal First Class, Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation, and various campaign medals. He is married to the former Dorothy Wyn Gehgan of Mahwah, New Jersey. They reside in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with their daughter Morgan Elizabeth.