White Plains (AFS 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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'S Beagle Baron, July 8 - l6, l969, our final priming for WESTPAC. But 2111 those Condition III watches and unrep stations and drills paid off in a successful deployment. During the entire seven months not one serious personnel casualty was experienced because through Beagle Baron and other exercises a crew Was created that worked together, each knowing his job and taking pride in ir.

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CAPTAIN 'rnoMAs u, BRliNNliR mf If fsngKwfw A aff j ' --4-wav, . W, . ded Captain Thomas B. Brenner, born in Kalamazoo, Michigafl, 00 APU1 'CEO' 1?JE?ghai,t5nwa5 schools in Kalamazoo and Washington, D.C., and the U S Naval Academy rom - ' A . . l erS, 3 graduated in 1946. Between 1946 and 1952 he served in various capacities on two destroy fleet mineswee er and a destroyer escort. A ucfor. In 1952 Calptain Brenner served on the staff of the U. S. Naval ACademY.aShaQ1f,'Ztri,,the This was followed by a tour aboard the Attack Carrier RANDOLPH Wlfh the Slxt C astal Mine- Mediterranean. From 1955 to 1958 Captain Brenner was Commanding Off1Cf?f Of the 0 hunter BLACKBIRD in the Atlantic. h From 1959 Captain Brenner attended Post-Graduate School, Naval Intelligence, 10 1958 ' ?9ik Virginia. to 1961 he was assigned to the Staff of Commander-in-ChiefAtlantic Fleet in Nor 0 v deployed He next served as Executive Officer of the USS ROCKBRIDGIC CAPA-2285, Which was to the Mediterranean Sea and then to the Caribbean during the Cuban Crisis. . h erated in In February 1963 Captain Brenner took command of the Destroyer CONY whic op the Atlantic and N h n . - Pentagon 0 ort ern European waters. Captain Brenner was assigned IO the the Staff of th Off' - - , d from e ice of Chief of Naval Operations and the Naval Intell1gcr1C9 Comman August 1964 until December 1967. , ITE In januafy 1968 Captain Brenner reported as the Prospective Commanding L7ff1cer,IEll?ES?gj1ing, PLAINS QAFS-45. Under the command of Captain Brenner, WHI'I'li PLAINS, afrer c0m C-nCed her went through final acceptance trials, fleet load-out, shake-down training, and C0mm first bverseas deployment. H rbor, Captain Brenner is now ser ' N . A J . ' PC'3fl a ving on the Staff of C,ommandcr Seventh Ilcet 10 Hawaii.