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Guided Missile Destroyer - DDG; Arleigh Burke class, Flight IIA Builder: General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, USA STATUS: Awarded: March 6, 1998 Laid down: April 12, 2001 Launched: November 2, 2002 Commissioned: October 18, 2003 IN SERVICE Homeport: Naval Base San Diego, California Namesake: John Lester Hubbard Chafee (1922-1999) Ships Motto: COMMANDING THE SEAS Technical Data: see: INFO > Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyer - DDG |
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USS Chafee is currently undergoing maintenance and modernization in San Diego, California  during Exercise RIMPAC 22 - Pacific Ocean - July 2022  during Exercise RIMPAC 22 - Pacific Ocean - July 2022  during Exercise RIMPAC 22 - Pacific Ocean - July 2022 
 launching an RIM-156A Standard Missile SM-2ER Block IV - Exercise RIMPAC 22 - Pacific Ocean - July 2022  launching an RIM-156A Standard Missile SM-2ER Block IV - Exercise RIMPAC 22 - Pacific Ocean - July 2022  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for Exercise RIMPAC - July 12, 2022  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for Exercise RIMPAC - July 12, 2022  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - February 19, 2022  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - February 19, 2022  Mk.32 torpedo tubes exercise - South China Sea - January 2022  Mk.32 torpedo tubes exercise - South China Sea - January 2022  South China Sea - November 2021  Philippine Sea - October 2021  Philippine Sea - September 2021  Philippine Sea - September 2021  launching a BGM-109 Tomahawk Block V cruise missile - Pacific Ocean - November 2020  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii in preparation of Hurricane Douglas - July 25, 2020  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - January 12, 2018  Pacific Ocean - November 2017  Pacific Ocean - November 2017  aft Mk.41 vertical launching system (VLS), 64 cells - Pacific Ocean - July 2017  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 13, 2017  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 13, 2017  Pacific Ocean - October 2016  Mk.45 Mod.4 gun fire - Pacific Ocean - September 2016  Mk.38 Mod.2 machine gun fire - Pacific Ocean - September 2016  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - December 17, 2015  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - December 17, 2015  Coral Sea - June 2015  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - May 18, 2015  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - May 18, 2015  holiday lights at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - December 2014  change of command ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - November 2014  off Hawaii - March 2014  off Hawaii - July 2013  off Hawaii - July 2013  helicopter operations during Exercise RIMPAC 12 - July 2012  firing a Standard Missile SM-2MR during Exercise RIMPAC 12 - July 2012  firing a Standard Missile SM-2MR during Exercise RIMPAC 12 - July 2012  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for Exercise RIMPAC 12 - July 10, 2012  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 7, 2012  Pacific Ocean - January 2012  Pacific Ocean - January 2012  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - November 29, 2011  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - November 29, 2011  during Exercise Koa Kai - off Hawaii - November 2011  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - November 2011  Seattle Seafair Fleet Week - August 2011  Seattle Seafair Fleet Week - August 2011  during Exercise Koa Kai 11-2 - off Hawaii - April 2011  Pearl Harbor Attack remembrance - December 7, 2010  during Exercise RIMPAC 10 - Pacific Ocean - July 2010  during Exercise RIMPAC 10 - Pacific Ocean - July 2010  during Exercise RIMPAC 10 - Pacific Ocean - July 2010  returning to Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - August 24, 2009  returning to Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - August 24, 2009  South China Sea - June 2009  Mk.45 Mod.4 gun fire during Exercise CARAT - off Singapore - June 2009  Philippine Sea - May 2009  departing Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - February 24, 2009  Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - November 2008  returning to Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - June 7, 2008  departing Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - January 30, 2008  returning to Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - September 22, 2007  returning to Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - September 22, 2007  Pacific Ocean - April 2007  Pacific Ocean - April 2007  Pacific Ocean - April 2007  Naval Base Guam - April 2007  departing Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - April 9, 2007  Pearl Harbor Attack remembrance - December 7, 2005  returning to Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - November 9, 2005  departing Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - May 20, 2005  Pacific Ocean - March 2005  Pacific Ocean - March 2005  arriving at her new homeport, Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - December 19, 2003  commissioning ceremony - Newport, Rhode Island - October 18, 2003 |
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USS Chafee (DDG 90): sorry, no ship's history |
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John Lester Hubbard Chafee (October 22, 1922 - October 24,
1999): ... was an American politician. He served as an officer in the U.S. Marines, as governor of Rhode Island, as the Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senator. Chafee was born in Providence, Rhode Island to a politically active family. His great-grandfather, Henry Lippitt, was a Rhode Island governor and among his great-uncles were a Rhode Island governor, Charles Warren Lippitt, and United States senator Henry Frederick Lippitt. His uncle, Zechariah Chafee, was a Harvard law professor, and a notable civil libertarian. In 1940, he graduated from Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. Chafee served in the Marines during World War II, spending his 20th birthday on Guadalcanal. He received degrees from Yale University in 1947 and Harvard University law school in 1950. In 1951, he was recalled to active service to be a Marine rifle company commander during the Korean War. Chafee became active in behind-the-scenes Rhode Island politics by helping elect a mayor of Providence in the early 1950s. He successfully ran for a seat in the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 1956 and later became the minority leader. He was reelected in 1958 and 1960, the latter a year when many Republicans were swept from office in his state. Chafee was elected governor in 1962, helping create the state's public transportation administration as well as what was known as the Green Acres program, a conservation effort. Chafee was head of the Republican Governors Association in the late 1960s. In 1968 he serived as chair of the Republican Governors Association. He served as governor until 1969. He was appointed Secretary of the Navy in 1969. His tenure as secretary was marked by a willingness to make bold decisions and stand by them. Emblematic of this was his decision to elevate Adm. Elmo Zumwalt as Chief of Naval Operations over 33 more senior officers, and his judicious handling of the USS Pueblo situation. He served as Secretary of the Navy until 1972. After an unsuccessful candidacy for the Senate in 1972, Chafee was elected to that body in 1976, serving as chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. He first joined the committee in 1977 and made environmental matters a chief concern, often breaking with his party to the delight of conservation groups. Among the bills Chafee fostered while in the minority was the Clean Water Act of 1986, and the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. He also was an architect of the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up hazardous waste sites as well as the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. Frequently following a moderate path, Chafee was pro-choice on abortion and supported the North American Free Trade Agreement. He took a moderate stance on taxes and government assistance to the needy. On social issues, Chafee was among the most liberal members of the Senate. He opposed the death penalty, school prayer, and the ban on gays serving in the military. Chafee was one of the few Republicans to support strict gun control laws. He sponsored a bill that, if passed, would have prohibited the "manufacture, importation, exportation, sale, purchase, transfer, receipt, possession, or transportation of handguns and hand ammunition." "John Chafee proved that politics can be an honorable profession," President Bill Clinton said in a statement to the Associated Press, shortly after Chafee died. "He embodied the decent center which has carried America from triumph to triumph for over 200 years." Chafee sat on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Health Care, but his biggest imprint was on environmental concerns. His last major act was authoring and sponsoring the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, which authorized funding for transportation programs for the next six years. A few months after declaring that he would not seek reelection in 2000, he died suddenly from congestive heart failure in October 1999 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. His son, Lincoln Chafee was appointed to serve the remainder of his term. USS Chafee (DDG-90) and the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor were named in his honor. |
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