White Plains (AFS 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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CAPTAIN ROBERT H. GORMLEY Captain Robert H. Gormley relieved Captain Brenner as Commanding Officer of WHITE PLAINS on December IO. 1969. in the Sea of japan. Captain GOfrDlCy's last assignment prior to WHITE PLAINS was with Commander Attack Carrier Striking Force Seventh Fleet CTask Force 77D where he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans. Prior to that he was assigned to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense CSystems Analysisj in Washington, D.C. Captain Gormley was born in Ventura, California, and attended elementary and secondary schools in California. While a student at the University of Texas, he received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy and was graduated in 1947. Following commissioning he served in the destroyer PUTNAM in the Atlantic Fleet. Subsequent to being designated a Naval Aviator in 1950, Captain Gormley served in a variety of assignments: carrier-based anti-submarine and fighter squadrons, jet training units, and on the staffs of the Commanders of Carrier Division Seventeen, the Operational Test and Evaluation Force and the Atlantic Fleet's training air group. In 1965 Captain Gormley assumed Command of Fighter Squadron Forty-One. Under his command the squadron, flying the F-4B Phantom II jet fighter-bomber, deployed to Southeast Asia on board the Attack Carrier INDEPENDENCE for combat air operations against North Vietnam. Sub- sequently Captain Gormley became Commander Attack Carrier Air Wing Seven in INDEPENDENCE. Captain Gormley has studied at both the Naval War College and Harvard University and received a Master's Degree from Harvard in 1963. Captain Gormley's personal decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Bronze Star.

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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.

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