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| 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 2024[update] |
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| Class & type: | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
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| 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) |
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| Aircraft carried: | 2 Sikorsky MH-60R helicopters 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 home-ported in Naval Station Norfolk.
Namesake[]
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 1 March 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 ship's 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 crew members, 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]
Syrian civil war[]
On 28 August 2013, the U.S. Navy announced that a fifth Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the Stout, was en route to join the other four Burke-class destroyers deployed in the eastern Mediterrranean Sea amid allegations that the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons during the ongoing Syrian civil war, including the gas attacks that occurred on 21 August 2013.[10]
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"
- ↑ [http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3488407&c=SEA&s=TOP U.S. Navy Finds Glaring Flaws in 2 Surface Ships[dead link] ], Defense News, 20 April 2008, Retrieved 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.
- ↑ "Official: 5th destroyer headed to the Med". Navy Times. 29 August 2013. http://www.navytimes.com/article/20130829/NEWS08/308290025/Official-5th-destroyer-headed-Med. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
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