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Guided Missile Destroyer - DDG; Arleigh Burke class, Flight IIA Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA STATUS: Awarded: March 6, 1998 Laid down: January 14, 2002 Launched: December 15, 2002 Commissioned: September 18, 2004 IN SERVICE Homeport: Naval Base San Diego, California Namesake: Rear Admiral Gordon Pai’ea Chung-Hoon (1910-1979) Ships Motto: IMUA E NA KOA KAI (Go Forwards, Sea Warriors) Technical Data: see: INFO > Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyer - DDG |
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 arriving at her new homeport, Naval Base San Diego, California - November 9, 2023 Chung-Hoon recently completed a deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet AOO and has been relocated to San Diego to complete a mid-life modernization.  USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) sails toward Naval Base San Diego following a homeport change from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - November 9, 2023.  USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) sails toward Naval Base San Diego following a homeport change from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - November 9, 2023.  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for Exercise Black Widow - October 13, 2023  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for Exercise Black Widow - October 13, 2023  Pacific Ocean - June 2023  Pacific Ocean - June 2023  South China Sea - March 2023  South China Sea - February 2023  South China Sea - February 2023  South China Sea - February 2023  Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme, California - June 2022  Pacific Ocean - September 2020  Mk.45 Mod.4 gun fire - Exercise RIMPAC 20 - Pacific Ocean - August 2020  Mk.45 Mod.4 gun fire - Exercise RIMPAC 20 - Pacific Ocean - August 2020  Mk.45 Mod.4 gun fire - Exercise RIMPAC 20 - Pacific Ocean - August 2020  Mk.38 Mod.2 machine gun fire - Exercise RIMPAC 20 - Pacific Ocean - August 2020  firing a Standard Missile SM-2MR from her forward Mk.41 VLS - Exercise RIMPAC 20 - Pacific Ocean - August 2020  firing a Standard Missile SM-2MR from her forward Mk.41 VLS - Exercise RIMPAC 20 - Pacific Ocean - August 2020  firing a Standard Missile SM-2MR from her forward Mk.41 VLS - Exercise RIMPAC 20 - Pacific Ocean - August 2020  firing a Standard Missile SM-2MR from her forward Mk.41 VLS - Exercise RIMPAC 20 - Pacific Ocean - August 2020  during Exercise RIMPAC 20 - Pacific Ocean - August 2020  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii in preparation of Hurricane Douglas - July 25, 2020  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii in preparation of Hurricane Douglas - July 25, 2020  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - May 31, 2019  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - May 31, 2019  Mk.15 Phalanx CIWS fire exercise - 5th Fleet AOR - April 2019  Mk.32 Mod.2 machine gun fire exercise - 5th Fleet AOR - April 2019  Manama, Bahrain - March 2019  Djibouti - January 2019  Djibouti - January 2019  Djibouti - January 2019  Gulf of Aden - January 2019  Mk.32 torpedo tubes exercise - Gulf of Aden - December 2018  Pacific Ocean - November 2018  Pacific Ocean - November 2018  Pacific Ocean - November 2018  Pacific Ocean - May 2018  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii after Exercise RIMPAC - August 2, 2016  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii after Exercise RIMPAC - August 2, 2016  during Exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during Exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during Exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during Exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during Exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during Exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  during Exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for Exercise RIMPAC - July 11, 2016  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for Exercise RIMPAC - July 11, 2016  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 28, 2016  South China Sea - March 2016  off Korea - March 2016  Mk.38 Mod.1 machine gun fire exercise - Philippine Sea - February 2016  torpedo load exercise - Pacific Ocean - February 2016  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - January 27, 2016  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - January 27, 2016  festival of light contest at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - December 2015  firing a Standard Missile SM-2 from her forward Mk.41 vertical launching system (VLS) - Pacific Ocean - November 2015  Pacific Ocean - November 2015  Pacific Ocean - August 2015  Pacific Ocean - August 2015  Pacific Ocean - July 2015  Pacific Ocean - April 2015  Pearl Harbor attack remembrance - December 7, 2014  Pearl Harbor attack remembrance - December 7, 2014  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - October 1, 2013  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - October 1, 2013  Da Nang, Vietnam - April 2013  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - April 2, 2013  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - April 2, 2013  during Exercise RIMPAC 12 - Pacific Ocean - July 2012  during Exercise RIMPAC 12 - Pacific Ocean - July 2012  during Exercise RIMPAC 12 - Pacific Ocean - July 2012  during Exercise RIMPAC 12 - Pacific Ocean - July 2012  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for Exercise RIMPAC - July 2012  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - May 2012  christmas decorations - Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - December 2011  christmas decorations - Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - December 2011  Pearl Harbor attack remembrance - December 7, 2011  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - December 1, 2011  Philippine Sea - October 2011  Philippine Sea - October 2011  Mk.45 Mod.4 gun fire during Exercise CARAT - off Singapore - August 2011  Puerto Princesa, Philippines - June 2011  Puerto Princesa, Philippines - June 2011  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 2, 2011  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 2, 2011  during Exercise Koa Kai - off Hawaii - April 2011  during Exercise Koa Kai - off Hawaii - April 2011  during Exercise Koa Kai - off Hawaii - April 2011  Sea of Japan - August 2010  Sea of Japan - August 2010  departing Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - June 1, 2010  departing Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - February 27, 2010  returning to Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - July 20, 2009  during Exercise CARAT - off Singapore - June 2009  departing Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - January 20, 2009  departing Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - January 20, 2009  Pearl Harbor attack remembrance - December 7, 2008  returning to Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - September 28, 2007  returning to Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - September 28, 2007  departing Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - April 16, 2007  returning to Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii from her maiden deployment - May 24, 2006  departing Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for her maiden deployment - January 5, 2006  commissioning ceremony at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - September 18, 2004  commissioning ceremony at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - September 18, 2004  arriving at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for her upcoming commissioning - September 10, 2004  arriving at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for her upcoming commissioning - September 10, 2004  arriving at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for her upcoming commissioning - September 10, 2004  trials - Gulf of Mexico - January 2004  trials - Gulf of Mexico - January 2004  trials - Gulf of Mexico - January 2004  trials - Gulf of Mexico - January 2004  trials - Gulf of Mexico - January 2004  trials - Gulf of Mexico - January 2004  after launching at Northrop Grumman Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi - December 15, 2002  launching preparations - December 2002  launching preparations - December 2002  launching preparations - December 2002  under construction at Northrop Grumman Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi - undated |
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USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93): In October 2005 while operating 360 nautical miles (670 km) northeast of Kahului, Chung-Hoon responded to a distress call from the bulk freighter C-Laurel. Chung-Hoon provided emergency medical care until the ship was within range of Coast Guard aircraft. In September 2006 Chung-Hoon served as host ship to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy's (PLAN) Luhu-class destroyer Qingdao during Qingdao's visit to Pearl Harbor. The two ships conducted communications and mobility exercises on 10 September 2006. According to Xinhua News Agency, it was the first such exercise by USN and PLAN ships and the first visit by a Chinese navy ship to a U.S. state in six years. On 20 January 2009 Chung-Hoon departed Pearl Harbor for a scheduled deployment with the Boxer Expeditionary Strike Group. On 8 March 2009 Chung-Hoon was escorting the surveillance vessel USNS Impeccable after the latter was involved in an incident with Chinese vessels in waters 75 miles (121 km) south of Hainan. In 2010 the ship assisted the Philippine Navy in the Sulu Sea in operations against Islamic militants. After returning to Pearl Harbor, the ship redeployed to the western Pacific beginning on 1 June 2011. The Republic of Singapore Navy ships RSS Vigour, RSS Stalwart and RSS Supreme conducted joint exercise CARAT 2011 with Chung-Hoon on 23 August 2011. On 27 January 2016 the ship deployed on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment with the USS John C. Stennis Strike Group, the so-called Great Green Fleet. On 5 January 2023 Chung-Hoon, while deployed to the U.S. Seventh Fleet sailed through the Taiwan Strait. She then conducted underway training with BRP Conrado Yap of the Philippine Navy on 17 April 2023. On 3 June 2023, People's Liberation Army Navy warship Suzhou cut across the bow of Chung-Hoon while it was transiting the Taiwan Strait together with HMCS Montreal; the closest point of approach was 150 yards (140 m). On 6 August 2023, Chung-Hoon and three other destroyers responded to a joint Chinese-Russian patrol in international waters near Alaska. The Chinese-Russian flotilla left without incident. source: wikipedia |
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Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon (1910-1979) ... was born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, on July 25, 1910, son of William Chung-Hoon, Jr., and Agnes Akau (McInerny) Chung-Hoon. He attended Punahou School in Honolulu, and prepared for the Naval Academy at Severn School, of Hawaii, he entered the Naval Academy on June 16, 1930. He was graduated and commissioned ensign on May 31, 1934, and through subsequent promotions attained the rank of captain, to date from July 1, 1953. After graduation in June 1934, he was assigned to USS Indianapolis, and served as a junior in that cruiser, on loan to the state of Pennsylvania, until March 1936. He was then transferred to USS Montgomery, a unit of Mine Division One, Battle Force, based on Pearl Harbor. A year later he was detached to the USS Dent, operating with Destroyer Division 19, Submarine Force, also at Pearl Harbor. In July 1939 he was ordered to USS Arizona, flagship of Battleship Division One, Battle Force. Attached to that battleship when she was bombed and sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, he joined USS Boggs on January 21, 1942, and served as executive officer of that destroyer until September of that year. Reporting in October 1942 to the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation plant, Tacoma, Washington, he assisted in fitting out USS Carmick, and served as her executive officer from her commissioning, December 28, 1942, until July 9, 1943. He commanded her briefly before being detached in August 1943, for duty on the staff of Commander, Fleet Operations Command, Fleet Subordinate Command, at Treasure Island, California. On May 10, 1944, he assumed command of USS Sigsbee, in which command he remained throughout the latter period of the war. He was awarded the Silver Star for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as Commanding Officer of the USS Sigsbee, in action against enemy Japanese’s forces in the vicinity of Kyushu Island, Japan, from March 17 to April 10, 1945…” The citation continues: “Commanding an important unit of an advanced picket group, Commander Chung-Hoon engaged in offensive operations against enemy aerial forces and assisted in destroying twenty enemy planes. Subsequently attacked by six planes, he directed the Sigsbee in shooting down one dive bomber before it could penetrate the formation…” The Navy Cross was awarded to him “For extraordinary heroism as Commanding Officer of the USS Sigsbee, a unit of an Advanced Picket Group in action against enemy Japanese forces in the vicinity of Okinawa, April 14, 1945…” The citation further states: “Although his ship suffered major damage when struck by an enemy plane and all power was lost, Commander Chung-Hoon coolly carried out defensive maneuvers and directed his antiaircraft batteries in delivering prolonged and effective fire against the continued heavying enemy air attack…(Later he) supervised damage control procedure (to return his ships) to port under its own restored power..” Detached from command of Sigsbee in October 1945, he joined the staff of Commander Service Force, Pacific Fleet, and served in that capacity until transferred in August 1947, to Headquarters, Fourteenth Naval District, Pearl Harbor, for duty on the staff of the Commandant as Director of Distribution for Naval Reserve; later as Director of Naval Reserve and then as Director of Civilian Personnel. On August 15, 1950, he assumed command of USS John W. Thomason (DD-760), and after twenty months in that command, reported in April 1952 as commanding officer of the Fleet Training Center, U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor. On February 23, 1954, he was ordered to the Naval War College, Newport, RI where he was a student from July of that year until June of the next, then served on the staff. Under orders of February 20, 1956, he commanded USS Norton Sound (AVM-1) for a year, and on June 18, 1957 was ordered to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department, Washington, D.C. There he served as Ship Command Member, Staff, Ship Characteristics Board, and then Project Officer, Amphibious Types and Auxiliaries, Fleet Development and Maintenance Division. Chung-Hoon retired in October 1959 and was promoted to rear admiral upon retirement, making him the first Asian American flag officer of the United States Navy. He was appointed to be the director of the Hawaii Department of Agriculture by the first Governor of the State of Hawaii, William F. Quinn, and held that position between January 1961 and June 1963. Chung-Hoon subsequently worked as a Realtor. He made a foray into politics by running as a Republican for one of the four seats representing the Hawaii 7th State Senate District in 1966, but finished fifth in the primary. Chung-Hoon died on July 24, 1979, at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. In addition to the Navy Cross and Silver Star, Commander Chung-Hoon has the American Defense Service Medal, Fleet Clasp; the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Meal with 1 silver and 2 bronze stars (seven operations); the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal; American Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal, Asia Clasp; China Service Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Korea Service Medal; United Service Medal; and the Philippine Liberation Ribbon. source: US DoD |
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