The FReeper Foxhole - Military Related News in Review - June 30th, 2003

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Pics of the Week


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Naval Station Norfolk, Va. (Jun. 25, 2003) – Electrician‘s Mate 2nd Class Kenneth Jelinek holds his four month old son for the first time. Petty Officer Jelinek is stationed aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) returning home from deployment in the Arabian Gulf, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Sondra Howett.



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Central Command Area of Responsibility (Jun. 22, 2003) -- U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Leonard Yowell examines the effectiveness of a Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) at one of Saddam Hussein’s presidential palaces. Lt. Cmdr. Yowell is one of nearly One Hundred experts assigned to the Combined Weapons Effectiveness Assessment Team (CWEAT). CWEAT is comprised of coalition forces visiting up to 500 impact points, targeted by the coalition air component during Operation Iraqi Freedom. CWEAT assesses how well weapons achieved the intended operational effects to improve efficiency in future operations. U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Patricia Lang.

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MILITARY RELATED NEWS and LINKS FROM THE PAST WEEK

*IN CASE YOU MISSED IT*
6/24/03

US soldiers risk own goal in football challenge to Iraq

US probes Syria bombing claim (attack on a convoy may have taken place in Syria)

6/25/03

Irish owner ordered me to Greece, says 'A-bomb' skipper

Missile Defense Critics See No Answer to Decoy Problem

Turkey opens bases to US

Woman wins recognition 59 years later for fiance who died in WWII

6/26/03

Attackers in Iraq Ratchet Up Ambushes [complete summary]

Al-Jazeera Gets Soldier Attacks Claim

Ambushes Against U.S. Troops Kill 4

Annan pleads for troops in E. Congo; U.S. hesitates

ARMED, AND SAFER, IRAQIS

President Bush Outlines his Agenda for U.S. - African Relations

IRAQ: American Killed in Ambush Near Baghdad

IRAQ: Troops pay to get better gear - Standard equipment lacking in some cases

Pipeline Attacks Put Iraq Oil Exports in Doubt

6/27/03

India, China plan joint naval exercises

3 arrested in case of missing U.S. troops

American Soldier Shot at Baghdad Market (compiled list of recent events)

Hundreds killed in Monrovia chaos, UN rescue attempts held up.

SOLDIER SHOT IN FACE

U.S. Soldier Shot Shopping in Baghdad-Witnesses

U.S. Officials Arrest 8 in `Virginia Jihad Network' (Update3)

US sends team to assess Iraq stability

6/28/03

An Army of Lots More Than One

British Forces Back in Iraq Town After Troop Deaths

Malawi Army Called in as Muslims Riot Again

Missing U.S. Soldiers' Bodies Found

Two Californians killed in combat in Afghanistan, Iraq

6/29/03

North Korea 'may test nuclear bomb'

Liberians rally for US help as shaky truce is called

U.S. Begins Bid to Crush Iraq Insurgents (Operation "Desert Sidewinder...)

Iraqi Killed, Two U.S. Soldiers Wounded in Attack

Momentum Builds for Liberia Intervention Force

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Status of Iraq's 55 Most Wanted

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Navy Christens New Guided-Missile Destroyer


WILLIAMS READY -- Welder Eddie Lee Ervin welds on a fixture built for new ship assemblies as the Aegis guided missile destroyer, James E. Williams (DDG 95), prepares for translation and launch. The 21st Aegis destroyer built at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems will be christened at the sector's Ingalls Operations in Pascagoula, Miss., Saturday, June 28.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 26, 2003

The newest Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer, James E. Williams, will be christened on Saturday, June 28, 2003, during a 10 a.m. CDT ceremony at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Pascagoula, Miss.

Acting Secretary of the Navy Hansford T. Johnson, will deliver the ceremony's principal address. Mrs. Elaine W. Williams, widow of he ship’s namesake, will serve as ship’s sponsor. In the time-honored Navy tradition, Williams will break a bottle of champagne across the bow to formally christen the ship.

The ship is named to honor Boatswain's Mate First Class James Elliot Williams (1930-1999) of Darlington, S.C. Williams was boat captain of river patrol boat (PBR) 105 on Oct. 31, 1966, on the Mekong River in South Vietnam when his boat and another PBR, assisted by helicopter gunships, engaged scores of enemy boats. After three hours of heavy fighting, Williams' patrol had accounted for the destruction of 65 enemy boats and more than 1,000 enemy troops. Williams, who later served as U.S. marshal for the district of South Carolina, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions. Williams was the most highly decorated enlisted man in the history of the U.S. Navy.

Williams, designated DDG 95, is the 45th ship of 62 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers currently authorized by Congress. It is the 21st Aegis destroyer to be christened of 28 ships under contract to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems. These highly capable multi-mission ships can conduct a variety of operations, from peacetime presence and crisis management to sea control and power projection, in support of the National Military Strategy. Williams will be capable of fighting air, surface and subsurface battles simultaneously. The ship contains myriad offensive and defensive weapons designed to support maritime defense needs well into the 21st century.

Cdr. Philip Warren Vance of Philadelphia will become the first commanding officer of the ship with a crew of approximately 365 officers and enlisted personnel. Williams is 509.5 feet in length, has an overall beam of 66 feet and a navigational draft of 33 feet. Four gas-turbine engines power the 9,300-ton ship to speeds in excess of 30 knots.

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For more information on Arleigh Burke class destroyers, visit: http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ships/ship-dd.html

There were no other photos available of the Williams yet so I've posted a picture of the USS Lassen.


Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer - LASSEN (DDG 82)

Because we always like to learn more, for historical information on the Clyde Everett Lassen, USN go here

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