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RETIRED POLICE LT- I also worked with the US Marshals office as a Special Deputy US marshal for 14 years in the fugitive task force(Operation Intercept)
USAR- SFC (E-7) OSUT Instructor (11B4H) -108th Div Tng. Later was the NCOIC of the S2 / S3 offices
Other Comments:
Retired from the Tng Cmd, 108th Div Training US Army Reserves after 16 years 10 months. Total length of service: 22years,10 months
Laid down as SS Prairie Mariner, a Maritime Administration type (C4-S-1A) hull, under a Maritime Administration contract, at New York Shipbuilding Corp, Camden, N.J.
Launched, 13 February 1954
Delivered to the Maritime Administration, 25 May 1954
Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, 6 January 1955
Acquired by the Navy, 16 March 1959
Commissioned USS Francis Marion (APA-249), 6 July 1961, CAPT. David S. Bill, Jr. in command
Redesignated Amphibious Transport(LPA-249), 1 January 1969
Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1980
Sold to Spain, 11 July 1980, under the Security Assistance Program, renamed Aragón (L-22)
Decommissioned by the Spanish Navy in 2000
Final Disposition, as of 2002 in use as a training hulk by UOE ("Unidad de Operaciones Especiales", Special Operations Unit) at La Carraca, Cádiz, Spain
Struck by the Spanish Navy per Order 600/15622/00), 20 September 2000
Final Disposition, fate unknown
Specifications: Displacement 16,828 t (fl) Length 563' 6" Beam 76' Draft 27' Speed 20 kts. Complement 414 Troop Accommodations 1500 Armament four single 3"/50 cal dual purpose gun mounts Propulsion
two Babcock and Wilcox WT boilers, 620 psi WP
one geared turbine
single propeller, 19,250shp
