USS Chung Hoon DDG - 93

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Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on January 12, 2012 at 3:06pm

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom on September 8, 2010 at 12:47pm

Cebu, PI ------ port of call.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom on August 28, 2010 at 2:06am

Miss our sailor but he is now a ...shellback!

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom on July 3, 2010 at 8:23am

Enjoy that port of call Sea Warriors!

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom on May 17, 2010 at 9:13pm

The USS Chung Hoon now has a facebook page!

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom on April 9, 2010 at 4:00am

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www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=52448

Family Day on the USS Chung Hoon, April 2010

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on March 5, 2010 at 9:52am

a lttle history lesson for you all:

REAR ADMIRAL GORDON PAI'EA CHUNG-HOON

1910 - 1979
Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon was born on July 25, 1910, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The second youngest of five Chung-Hoon children, he attended the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in May 1934. While at the Naval Academy, he was a valued member of the Navy Football team.

Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon is a recipient of the Navy Cross and Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism as Commanding Officer of USS Sigsbee (DD 502) from May 1944 to October 1945. In the spring of 1945, Sigsbee assisted in the destruction of 20 enemy planes while screening a carrier strike force off the Japanese island of Kyushu. On April 14, 1945, while on radar picket station off Okinawa, a kamikaze crashed into Sigsbee, reducing her starboard engine to five knots and knocking out the ship's port engine and steering control. Despite the damage, Admiral Chung-Hoon, then a Commander, valiantly kept his anti-aircraft batteries delivering "prolonged and effective fire" against the continuing enemy air attack while simultaneously directing the damage control efforts that allowed Sigsbee to make port under her own power.

After retiring from the Navy in 1959, Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon was appointed by William Quinn, Hawaii’s first elected governor since statehood, to serve as director of the state Department of Agriculture. Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon died in July 1979.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom on March 4, 2010 at 8:07pm

Welcome Bob! Do you have a sailor on the Chung Hoon? Our son reported to the ship back in July.