The February issue of The Destroyerman is now available.
Highlights include:
Arleigh Burke Featured on CBS News
Thanks to Shannon Peterson, Andy Paul, and Tom Halvorson for referring this link.
Oral History Project
One of the Association’s objectives is to preserve the legacy of the Admiral and his ship.
We are starting a new effort for this preservation – oral histories of those that contributed to the success of Arleigh Burke.
Initial focus is the Arleigh Burke to Sea period, including design, construction, precomm, commissioning, DT-OT, PSA, deployment preparations, and first deployment. Time is of the essence as we are starting to lose the heroes that made Arleigh Burke to Sea a reality.
Note – this started with the title “Oral History” – but we are now using the more general title “History Project” – recognizing that submissions are also coming in as written answers to our questions and in the form of documents we are capturing to archive.
Arleigh Burke Commences Fourth FDNF-E Patrol
Arleigh Burke commenced the fourth FDNF-E patrol on November 22, 2023.
USS Arleigh Burke special label release of Critical Batch Texas Bourbon Whiskey
The master distiller at Chapline Distillery, a top-shelf Texas nano-distillery, has set aside an upcoming barrel of their Critical Batch Single Barrel Texas Bourbon Whiskey for a USS Arleigh Burke special label release. Prior releases have celebrated the USS Texas and several US submarines.
New Association Secretary
Welcome to our new secretary, Corey Keniston. Corey was a prior CO of Arleigh Burke. Read more about him here.
Our thanks to Mark Fortune for his 10+ years service as association secretary.
October means Scholarship
October means it is time to start thinking 2024 scholarships
Eligible applicants – time to start your application
Donors – time to fund the Association Scholarship
Arleigh Burke Completes Third FDNF-E Patrol
Arleigh Burke returned from it’s third Forward Deployed Naval Forces – Europe patrol in June.
Loss of a shipmate
FCCM Joseph Frank Wojewodzic Jr.
The Association has recently learned of the passing of Master Chief Wojewodzic. He was the commissioning CF Master Chief and Combat Systems Maintenance Manager, a key contributor to the successful completion of TechEval and OpEval.
RADM Anderson Assumes Duties as NAVSEA
Rear Admiral Tom Anderson assumed the role of acting NAVSEA commander from Vice Admiral Bill Galinis on Sep 1, 2023
Rear Admiral Anderson previously served on DDG51 as Auxiliaries Officer, Electrical Officer, Material Officer, and coordinated the first two Chief of Naval Operations availabilities of the DDG 51 Class.
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