- USS Stout (DDG-55)
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Career (US) 
Name: USS Stout Namesake: R.ADM Herald F. Stout Ordered: 13 December 1988 Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding Laid down: 8 August 1991 Launched: 16 October 1992 Commissioned: 13 August 1994 Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia Motto: Courage - Valor - Integrity Nickname: "Bold Knight" Status: in active service, as of 2011[update] Badge: 
General characteristics Class and type: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Displacement: Light: approx. 6,800 long tons (6,900 t)
Full: approx. 8,900 long tons (9,000 t)Length: 505 ft (154 m) Beam: 66 ft (20 m) Draft: 31 ft (9.4 m) Propulsion: 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW) Speed: >30 knots (56 km/h) Range: 4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots
(8,100 km at 37 km/h)Complement: 33 Officers
38 Chief Petty Officers
210 Enlisted PersonnelSensors and
processing systems:• AN/SPY-1D 3D Radar
• AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar
• AN/SPS-73(V)12 Surface Search Radar
• AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array
• AN/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array Sonar
• AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III Shipboard SystemElectronic warfare
and decoys:• AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System
• AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
• MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System
• AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF BuoysArmament: 1 × 29 cell, 1 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems with 90 × RIM-156 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc missiles
2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes
1 × Mark 45 5/54 in (127/54 mm)
2 × 25 mm chain gun
4 × .50 caliber (12.7 mm) guns
2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWSAircraft carried: 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked USS Stout (DDG-55) is the sixth Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer. Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding, she was commissioned on 13 August 1994 and she is currently homeported in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Etymology
Stout was named for Rear Admiral Herald F. Stout (1903–1987), who distinguished himself as the Commanding Officer of the destroyer USS Claxton during World War II. Then a Commander, Stout aided his task force in sinking five heavily armed, enemy warships to establish a beachhead on Bougainville Island.
Honors and awards
On 16 February 2007, Stout was awarded the 2006 Battle "E".[1]
In April 2008, the ship comprehensively failed[2] its Board of Inspection and Survey examination and was declared "unfit for sustained combat operations." .[3][4] The ship has since passed 13 of 13 rigorous unit level training inspections. Stout deployed in March 2009 on routine security operations in the Sixth Fleet OPAREA. On 15 July 2009, Fox News Channel reported Stout was in the Black Sea cooperating with Georgian forces in training exercises.
Relief of Commanding Officer and Command Master Chief
On March 1, 2011 while on deployment to the Mediterranean Sea in support of the crisis in Libya, Commander Nathan Borchers, Command Master Chief Susan Bruce-Ross, six other chiefs, one junior officer, and one petty officer of USS Stout were relieved by the Commander Sixth Fleet. The cited cause was a “pervasive pattern of unprofessional behavior” among the ships crew including “fraternization, orders violations and disregard for naval standards of conduct and behavior which contributed to poor crew morale and a hostile command climate.” [5][6] The investigation found that a "gang" of five chiefs had bullied crewmembers, actively impeded communication among the ship's command channels, and forced crewmembers to work around the gang in order to get work accomplished.[7]
Operation Odyssey Dawn
USS Stout launches a Tomahawk missile in Operation Odyssey Dawn
On 19 March 2011, in conjunction with other US Navy ships, the destroyer launched Tomahawk cruise missiles at Libyan air defenses as part of Operation Odyssey Dawn.[8][9]
References
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
- ^ Surface Force Ships, Crew Earn Battle "E"
- ^ U.S. Navy Finds Glaring Flaws in 2 Surface Ships, Defense News, 20 April 2008, accessed 22 April 2008
- ^ Navy Board of Inspection and Survey Report: USS Stout
- ^ Eisman, Dale, "Lawmakers Seek Openness After Navy Closes Reports", Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 4 May 2009.
- ^ Military Times, "Destroyer CO, CMC fired during deployment" 1 March 2011, retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ Jontz, Sandra, "CO, nine others removed from USS Stout over port visit misconduct", Stars and Stripes, 1 March 2011; retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ McMichael, William, "Report: Chiefs created ‘hostile’ climate on Stout", Military Times, 6 April 2011.
- ^ Burns, Robert, "First wave of allied assault: 112 cruise missiles", Yahoo! News, 20 March 2011, retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ McMichael, William, "Report: Chiefs created ‘hostile’ climate on Stout", Military Times, 6 April 2011.
External links
- Official USS Stout web site
- Navysite.de DDG-55
- [1] Night Tomahawk launch during Operation Odyssey Dawn.
Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Flight I ships Arleigh Burke · Barry · John Paul Jones · Curtis Wilbur · Stout · John S. McCain · Mitscher · Laboon · Russell · Paul Hamilton · Ramage · Fitzgerald · Stethem · Carney · Benfold · Gonzalez · Cole · The Sullivans · Milius · Hopper · Ross
Flight II ships Flight IIA ships 5"/54 variant5"/62 variantWinston S. Churchill · Lassen · Howard · Bulkeley · McCampbell · Shoup · Mason · Preble · Mustin · Chafee · Pinckney · Momsen · Chung-Hoon · Nitze · James E. Williams · Bainbridge · Halsey · Forrest Sherman · Farragut · Kidd · Gridley · Sampson · Truxtun · Sterett · Dewey · Stockdale · Gravely · Wayne E. Meyer · Jason Dunham · William P. Lawrence · Spruance · Michael Murphy
List of destroyers of the United States Navy · List of destroyer classes of the United States NavyCategories:- Arleigh Burke class destroyers
- Active destroyers of the United States
- Ships built in Mississippi
- 1992 ships
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