Professional Association For Arleigh Burke Crewmembers And Supporters
The Association will be placing flowers at the Admiral & Bobbie’s grave on April 28, 2024 at 1100 in section 8 of the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland.
After the Flower Laying Ceremony at the Admiral’s Gravesite, attendees are welcome to join up for lunch at a local Annapolis restaurant.
If you plan to attend, please reply to the Association Secretary e-mail invitation or Contact Us.
The history project is providing some new (old) artifacts. From Andy Summer’s files – rough seas transiting Atlantic on first deployment, March 1993, pictures from USS Theodore Rosevelt (CVN 71).
RDML Tom Moninger assigned to command Carrier Strike Group 12
(former CO)
CDR Eric Smitley takes command of USS Howard (DDG 83)
(former DCA)
The February issue of The Destroyerman is now available.
Highlights include:
Thanks to Shannon Peterson, Andy Paul, and Tom Halvorson for referring this link.
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 commenced the fourth FDNF-E patrol on November 22, 2023.
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.
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 it is time to start thinking 2024 scholarships
Eligible applicants – time to start your application
Donors – time to fund the Association Scholarship
USS Arleigh Burke Association