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USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) is the lead ship of the two Blue Ridge-class amphibious command ships of the United States Navy, and is the flagship of the Seventh Fleet. Her primary role is to provide command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) support to the commander and staff of the United States Seventh Fleet.
Former Director of Seventh Fleet Maritime Operations aboard the USS Blue Ridge: Allegedly took $145,000 in bribes from Francis and participation in parties involving prostitutes including a two-day, $75,000 affair, and involvement in recruiting additional Navy co-conspirators. [136] Relieved of command in November 2013 due to GDMA-related conduct.
At the time of their commissionings, the ships of the Blue Ridge class had the distinction of carrying the world's most sophisticated electronics suites, thirty percent larger than that of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy, which had been the most complex. They were fitted with a "main battery" of computers, communications gear, and ...
In a separate incident, the vessel Zenaida, with 20 people aboard was reported missing off Quezon province east of Manila. [27] The USS Blue Ridge found four crewmen of the 90 m (295 ft) Philippine freighter Jet Nann Five, which sank to the south of where the Doña Marilyn sunk about
USS Blue Ridge (ID-2432), was originally constructed as the Great Lakes passenger steamer Virginia and was in service for less than a year during 1918; USS Blue Ridge (AGC-2), was an amphibious force flagship, and served from 1943 to 1947; USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19), is a command and control ship, serving as the Seventh Fleet command ship
USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7) was the lead ship of the previous class of amphibious force command ships. She was designed as an amphibious force flagship, a floating command post with advanced communications equipment and extensive combat information spaces to be used by the amphibious forces commander and landing force commander during large-scale operations.
On 17 October 1944, troops of the United States Sixth Army under the direct command of Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, invaded the Philippine island of Leyte.This operation was the beginning of General Douglas MacArthur's fulfillment of his promise in March 1942 to the Filipino people that he would liberate them from Japanese rule.
In August 2007, according to Captain Rudy Lupton, commanding officer of the USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) (the command ship in the Pacific of the 7th fleet of the United States) around 120 (one-sixth) of the 650 seamen of the USS Blue Ridge were Filipino. [8]