Subscribe
EAST CHINA SEA— A Sacramento, Calif. native and 2018 Mesa Verde High School graduate is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the guided-missile destroyer, USS Halsey.
Fireman Alisia Marie Woldridge is a Damage Controlman serving aboard USS Halsey, homeported out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Halsey is underway in 7th Fleet conducting operations in the Indo-Pacific while assigned to the forward deployed Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15.
Damage Controlmen make up a part of the ship’s Repair Division that maintain damage control equipment from bow to stern. They perform hundreds of maintenance checks each week to ensure Halsey is mission-ready.
“Being a Damage Controlman gives me purpose,” said Woldridge. “If there’s a casualty, the ship depends on Repair Division to be the first to respond.”
Damage Controlmen maintain a constant state of readiness in both damage control training as well as maintaining critical equipment throughout the entire ship. Keeping the ship in a constant state of mission-readiness to defend against any casualty is paramount.
“I am proud to have the opportunity to train fellow Sailors on the proper use of damage control equipment,” said Woldridge. “In a damage control emergency, we need to have all hands on deck to battle any casualty.”
A U.S. Navy destroyer is a multi-mission ship that can operate independently or as part of a larger group of ships at sea. The ship is equipped with a vertical launching system, tomahawk missiles, torpedoes, guns and Phalanx close-in weapons systems.
Halsey is underway conducting operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific while assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force..
For more information on Halsey, visit https://www.facebook.com/DESRON15.
| Date Taken: | 10.07.2020 |
| Date Posted: | 10.06.2020 22:52 |
| Story ID: | 380382 |
| Location: | AT SEA |
| Web Views: | 6 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
This work, Sacramento, Calif. native serves aboard USS Halsey, by PO2 Andrew Langholf, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
