• A plankowner (also referred to a plank owner and sometimes a plank holder) is an individual who was a member of the crew of a United States Navy ship or...
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    Pearl Harbor. Nicknamed "Sunshine" and "the Gentle Giant", Murray was a plankowner aboard Porpoise, placing her in commission on 15 August 1935. As ComSubDiv...
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    helicopter in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory. Carter Hall and her plankowner crew departed on their first six-month Mediterranean deployment on 29...
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    Military.com. Retrieved 1 September 2013. "Ship Named after Navy Nurse Plankowner Lenah Higbee is Christened". https://usshigbee.info/history-of-the-ship...
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    intelligence as to the number of actual SEAL teams in existence. The unit's plankowners (founding members) were interviewed and hand-picked by Marcinko from...
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    600-ship Navy program. The Ronald Reagan's seal was designed entirely by her plankowner crew with historical assistance from staff members at the Ronald Reagan...
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    the distinction of being the first "Plankowner" Commanding Officer. He was also the Commanding Officer and "Plankowner" of the Eastern Regional Recruiting...
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    Vietnam. Much like the naval traditions of line-crossing ceremonies and plankowner certificates, the club served to commemorate sailors' participation in...
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    CVN-71, arriving while the ship was still under construction, and is a "TR Plankowner". On September 9, 1988, Bushey became the seventh Master Chief Petty Officer...
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    crew of 6 USCG officers and 55 enlisted sailors would become Eagle's plankowners, responsible for making her seaworthy for trans-Atlantic passage, and...
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  • godfather of FSB Lieutenant Colonel Marat Medoev, a famed sniper and plankowner of Russian SSO, rumored to be his personal deputy. He is personally close...
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    Benjamin Franklin.) Franklin was commissioned on 31 January 1944. Among the plankowners was a ship's band made up of several enlisted men who were professional...
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  • (ASS-1) into the SDF-1 Macross during the U.N. Wars. He is the SDF-1 ship's plankowner and sees her through many adventures and hardships battling the Zentradi...
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  • later hand-selected by Commander Richard Marcinko in 1980 to become a plankowner of the Navy's first dedicated counter-terrorist unit, SEAL Team Six. As...
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    formed by members of Tarawa's original commissioning crew, also known as plankowners, with plans to make her the first Navy amphibious ship museum. The organization...
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    Assistant Navy Secretary Jahncke. Among New Orleans' junior officer plankowners in 1934, were Jahncke's son, Ensign E.L. Jahncke Jr. and Ensign T.H....
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    February 1934 with LT Abercrombie as a member of her crew, making him a Plankowner on the newly commissioned ship. Abercrombie served aboard the cruiser...
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    Vietnam Campaign Medal Friedman, Small Combatants, pp. 257 Cutler, p. 91 Plankowner Flagstaff PGH 1 31 Aug 1969 RECTAD COMCOSDIV 12 NAVSUPPACT DANANG We operated...
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  • Battle of Manila Bay in 1898. Shortly after the war ended, Lopez became a plankowner of the torpedo boat USS Rowan (TB-8) when she was commissioned on 1 April...
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  • corporal, returned to the United States in early 1916, where he became a plankowner on the USS Oklahoma (BB-37). At the outbreak of World War I, Groff's experience...
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    command of the newly commissioned battleship USS Iowa (BB-61); he was a plankowner. While he commanded her, February 22, 1943 to August 1944, Iowa transported...
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    operational assignments included Group-Air Station Atlantic City and as plankowner and Commander, Sector Miami, Response Operations. Some of her responsibilities...
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    Electronics Technician Second Class on the Plunger, where he served as a plankowner, among the first 11 crew members. In 1964 Cavin started working as chief...
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    Engineering Officer and later Scouting Force Engineering Officer. He was a plankowner for the Lexington and the Ranger. He also served several tours with the...
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  • lives in submarine warfare" during World War II. In 1956 a group of Plankowners formulated and discussed thoroughly the purpose of a motto of the newly...
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    of federal, territorial, commercial, and Good Samaritan vessels, the plankowner crew of Joseph Tezanos saved all 511 crewmembers and passengers from Caribbean...
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    Nazario and 20 enlisted crew members also serve as Forrest Rednour's plankowners. On her first mission, Rednour apprehended 3 people aboard a 25-foot...
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  • Francisco, arriving there 8 January 1875 after rounding Cape Horn. Among the plankowners was then First Lieutenant Michael A. Healy who at the time had never...
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