BADGER continued a series of Western Pacific deployments, some extending in to the Indian Ocean, throughout her service career. She concluded that assignment on 2 September and shaped a course for Sasebo, but received orders the following day to proceed north in the wake of the tragic downing, by a Soviet fighter, of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over Sakhalin Island on 1 September. Similar training activities in the local operating area kept her busy until the second week in April. Augmented en route by the remainder of Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 35, TG 37.4 reached Subic on 5 November 1973. Badger continued to carry out training missions in the Hawaiian operating area well into 1988. Because of those changes, Badger underwent a post-shakedown availability that lasted until mid-November. Late in May, the crew moved off the ship to quarters ashore; and, on 7 June, the ship officially commenced overhaul at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Throughout the passage across the eastern Pacific, she joined the ships of DesRon 23 in a number of exercises. Four days later, the destroyer escort arrived at Guam whence she conducted special operations. The following month, entered the Long Beach Naval Shipyard for post-shakedown availability. Upon her return to the combat zone, the warship took up position as escort for the guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9) on the middle SAR station. The warship returned to Pearl Harbor on 6 December 1988 and her post-deployment standdown lasted until 17 January 1989. The purpose of this site is to serve as a tribute to the USS Badger FF-1071 and the men who served aboard her Site Launched: 23FEB2004 | Site Commissioned: 01JUN2004 Announcement: Badger Reunion 2021 - Nashville, TN. Tragedy of USS Memphis; Sinking of USS Indianapolis; The Catastrophic Fire On Board USS Forrestal; Conestoga; Flight 19; U-2s, UFOs, and Operation Blue Book; The Sinking of Maine; Port Chicago Naval Magazine Explosion; The Sullivan Brothers and the Assignment of Family Members; Weather Related Incidents; Organization and Administration Her first taste of law enforcement duty lasted from 28 March to 12 April and then she resumed more familiar duty until mid-June. The task group exited the Indian Ocean via the Strait of Malacca on 29 August and headed for the Gulf of Siam where it joined units of the Thai Navy for Exercise Sea Siamex X. She arrived there on 3 October and with the exception of two days at sea from 5 to 7 October to evade a typhoon, remained in port until the 9th when she shaped a course for Guam. DE-1071 Jeryl Cockerham SN 6/73-6/76 signmanad001 (AT) aol.com; Would like to be in contact with anyone that served with me. On 12 September, she put to sea from Yokosuka for two weeks of operations in the East China Sea with a task group formed around Midway. When she reentered Pearl Harbor on 14 November, Badger started preparing for a three-month drydocking that began on 8 December. On 30 October, the ships began the transit of the Strait of Malacca and, the next day, entered the Indian Ocean, the appearance of this task group in the Indian Ocean reflecting the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran by Iranian militants almost a year before and the holding of embassy personnel as hostages. After spending 20 days supporting the carrier, Badger returned to gunfire support missions on 26 June. Asbestos would have been used throughout the ship as an insulator for her steam lines, boilers, and … After a stop at Guam, she reached Pearl Harbor on 18 May. The artwork depicts the USS BADGER in all her glory. She concluded the deployment at Pearl on 8 May 1978. The warship arrived back in Pearl Harbor on 12 May and began a four-week period of relative inactivity in port. On the following evening, Badger stood out of Subic bound for the Vietnam War zone. Every sailor loved his ship. She finally arrived in Subic Bay on 15 September, all refugees safe. Decommissioned 20 December 1991. During the remainder of August and the first part of September, Badger called at a succession of Japanese ports. The ship's crew then enjoyed a 16-day liberty call before the ship began her second deployment on the 17th. From then on, the frigate busied herself with the never-ending cycle of readiness exercises and drills punctuated by the usual material inspections and proficiency examinations. Articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, List of frigates of the United States Navy, https://military.wikia.org/wiki/USS_Badger_(FF-1071)?oldid=4273102, Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, Todd Pacific Shipyards - Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California, 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) @ 20 knots (37 km/h). From 22 to 27 April, she operated in the South China Sea shadowing two Soviet submarines. On 21 March, she finished the repair work and launched into a succession of post-availability trials, inspections, examinations, and certifications that continued through the middle of June. After a nonstop voyage across the Pacific, highlighted by several fueling-at-sea operations, Badger arrived back in Long Beach on 4 October. She was sunk as a target in 1998. On 11 March 1975, she put to sea to participate in Exercise RIMPAC '75, the multifaceted combat readiness exercise that brought together units of the American, Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand navies. The Fourth Registration, often referred to as the "old man's registration", was conducted on 27 April 1942. However, a material casualty to her evaporators forced her to return to port for repairs on the 15th. Badger ended her part in the KAL 007 SAR effort on the 20th and reached Yokosuka on the 21st to prepare for the voyage back to Hawaii. Badger completed those modifications on 18 May 1973 and put to sea for trials and single ship exercises in the southern California operating area. Badger got underway for the first time in 1984 on 9 January when she put to sea for three days of tests and training with USS Omaha (SSN-692). From there, she moved to Keelung, Taiwan, for a visit between 3 and 8 April. Later, USS Reclaimer relieved Waxahachie and pulled the stricken destroyer escort into Pearl Harbor on the morning of the 12th. That extended voyage brought exercises of all types: refueling, replenishment, towing, communications, gunnery, and engineering. On 29 October. After sixteen months of post-commissioning work ups and upgrades USS BADGER departed for her first "West Pac" and Vietnam in March 1972. Badger reached the patrol area in the northern Arabian Sea on 10 September and began four weeks of duty on that station. She parted company with the unit on 4 July and headed for Japan, arriving in Yokosuka on the 16th. Following leave and upkeep, Badger got underway for tests on her main propulsion plant and associated equipment on 21 June 1974. Badger remained in the Mariana Islands until 13 February when she departed Guam to return to Subic Bay. The entry can be found here. In June, the frigate resumed a normal schedule of local training operations and continued so engaged for the rest of 1987. After completing a COMPTUEX, a READIEX, and a naval gunfire support requalification, Badger returned to Hawaii on 21 March and began a month of preparations for overseas movement. She emerged from the yard on 11 January 1977 and conducted sea trials the following day. The ship concluded that voyage at Subic Bay on 11 September. She concluded that assignment on 2 September and shaped a course for Sasebo, but received orders the following day to proceed north in the wake of the tragic downing, by a Soviet fighter, of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over Sakhalin Island on 1 September. Although refloated on 2 March 1987, she did not resume active service for almost two more months. Badger was decommissioned at Pearl Harbor on 20 December 1991, and her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in January 1995. Badger completed the repairs on 24 September, carried out the usual trials and examinations in October, and resumed normal training missions out of Pearl Harbor early in November. She completed final contract trials in May, during which Badger set the speed record for Knox class frigates, over 30 knots. The former warship performed her last service for the Navy on 22 July 1998 at which time she was sunk as a target during the United States Third Fleet exercise RIMPAC 98 at .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}22°51′06″N 160°33′00″W / 22.85167°N 160.55000°W / 22.85167; -160.55000 ("USS Badger (FF-1071)"). Late in March, she embarked on a series of battle readiness exercises that carried out during a four-week cruise to the west coast. Next came a call each at Pusan in late October and at Hong Kong early in November. During the remainder of August and the first part of September, Badger called at a succession of Japanese ports. Badger took up active training again early in December 1990; but that lasted only about two weeks. From that time until mid-March 1972, the destroyer escort conducted a series of underway tests and training evolutions and underwent readiness inspections. She reached Subic Bay on the 27th but remained only three days, putting to sea again on the 30th bound for Singapore. Date: 7 OCT - 11 OCT, 2020: Location: Long Beach CA: Contact: Max Young : Email: On the last day of the month, she put to sea as a unit of TG 75.1 to begin a 60-day training cruise to the Indian Ocean. She was also indirectly featured in the 2004 movie 50 First Dates. Badger rendezvoused with the carrier USS Oriskany to form Task Group (TG) 37.4, and the two ships then shaped a course for the western Pacific. During the last week in October, Badger took part in the first phase of a major fleet exercise with a pair of carrier task groups built around USS Constellation and USS Carl Vinson. They arrived at Bandar Abbas, Iran, on the 23d. The warships reentered Subic Bay on 23 March, and Badger began a 12-day upkeep. On 11 September, Badger put to sea to participate in the four-nation Exercise RIMPAC '73. She visited San Diego, California, Portland, Oregon, and Homer, Alaska before returning to Oahu on 16 July. On the 19th, Badger was switched to plane guard duty for the aircraft carrier USS Constellation in the Gulf of Tonkin. On 12 September, she put to sea from Yokosuka for two weeks of operations in the East China Sea with a task group formed around Midway. ), and the grandfather of Admiral Oscar C. Badger. Though she made most of the crossing with the task group, Badger did not remain a part of it throughout the deployment. She put to sea on 10 January for a two-week cruise to conduct operations in an area in the eastern Pacific about two-thirds of the way from Oahu to the northern California coast. The two warships reentered Pearl Harbor on 22 December, and Badger spent the rest of 1984 in port. Rear Admiral William A. Cockell, Commander, Task Force 71, and a skeleton staff, embarked in Badger on 9 September via LAMPS helo from Wakanai, Japan, for further transfer to the destroyer Elliot to assume duties as Officer in Tactical Command (OTC) of the Search and Rescue (SAR) effort. On 23 June, Badger embarked on the seven-week round of exercises punctuated with visits to west coast ports that constituted EASTPAC 86. Badger got underway for the west coast of the United States in company with DesRon 23 on 22 August 1977. On 9 August, she was assigned duty interdicting communist waterborne logistics and remained so engaged until 12 August when she relieved guided missile frigate USS Worden (CG-18) as plane guard for Midway, once again headed for Subic Bay. Following her … She arrived in Subic Bay on 24 August for repairs before putting to sea on the 30th, bound for Vietnamese waters. She put to sea on 10 January for a two-week cruise to conduct operations in an area in the eastern Pacific about two-thirds of the way from Oahu to the northern California coast. Edit. On 9 August, she was assigned duty interdicting communist waterborne logistics and remained so engaged until 12 August when she relieved guided missile frigate USS Worden as plane guard for Midway, once again headed for Subic Bay. Badger was decommissioned at Pearl Harbor on 20 December 1991, and her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in January 1995. The exercise concluded on 21 March, and Badger returned to Pearl Harbor to prepare for overseas movement. During that tour of duty, she also kept an eye on two Chinese merchantmen in the area. She spent two days escorting Hancock in the local operating area before returning to port on 22 May. USS Badger (FF-1071) was a Knox-class destroyer escort, originally designated as DE-1071 and reclassified as a frigate in 1975 in the United States Navy.Her primary mission of ASW remained unchanged. During that availability, she received extensive modifications including the addition of a basic point defense missile system (BPDMS) and of an independent variable depth sonar system. Following an inspection and survey to gauge her fitness for further service, she began a two-month restricted availability. The next day, Badger was back at sea escorting Midway to Guam with a load of American aircraft removed from Vietnam. She returned to sea on the 16th and soon arrived back on the gunline. On 1 October, Badger headed to Hong Kong. She also made goodwill visits to Singapore and various Japanese and Korean ports. On 27 July, she headed back to Yokosuka where she underwent still more repairs during the first 10 days of August. The last 7th Fleet assignment of her Navy career came to an end on 22 November when she embarked on that final western Pacific passage. K Round Bridge Cutaway 1943-45 Camouflage: USS De Long (DE-684) Rudderow Class DE: USS Dealey (DE-1006) (see description note) Dealey Class DE as built Late in March 1990, however, Badger undertook a new mission when she embarked a Coast Guard law enforcement detachment to carry out drug traffic interdiction operations. That employment occupied her for the last two months of 1974 and for the first two months of 1975. She spent eight days in repairs at Yokosuka and then set a course back to the South China Sea where she carried out surveillance missions until the latter part of July. Knox Class Destroyer Escort. Badger provided plane guard services for the carrier as she made her final air strikes of the war and then escorted Hancock to Subic Bay, arriving there on 15 September. Along the way, Badger stopped at Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Guam before arriving in Subic Bay on 7 April. On the 9th, Badger took on board 57 survivors of a group that had originally numbered 104 and sailed for the Philippines. Following post-deployment standdown, the frigate resumed local operations out of Pearl late in December. Her post-deployment standdown period was followed, in turn, by a holiday leave and upkeep period. English: The U.S. Navy ocean escort USS Badger (DE-1071) underway in the South China Sea during Operation Frequent Wind, in April 1975. The exercise-filled, 17-day passage to the Philippines ended on the 19th at Subic Bay where Badger began five days of repairs and meetings before heading to duty in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea on 24 August. Her visit to Singapore, however, proved a brief one, shortened by orders on 6 August to rescue Vietnamese refugees in the vicinity of the Spratly Islands. On the 9th, she moored in the harbor at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, for an eight-day stay before returning to Subic on the 18th. For the remainder of 1986, the warship went to sea only rarely. She took part in an amphibious exercise along the way near Okinawa before arriving in Yokosuka on 16 June. She remained so occupied for the rest of 1989 and well into 1990. Early in October, she made a five-day port visit at Mombasa and then sailed back to the Arabian Sea, where she completed a tender availability alongside USS Ajax (AR-6) at Al Masirah Island. Badger spent the next nine months engaged in exercises and drills conducted out of Pearl Harbor. During the forenoon watch on 17 September, however, Badger's embarked SH-2F helicopter from HSL-37 (Detachment 2) went down at sea; USCGC Munro (WHEC-724), however, promptly rescued the four-man crew from the water. They stopped for fuel at Guam and Midway before arriving back in Pearl Harbor on 4 October. After a week of upkeep, she put to sea for Guam. On 7 January 1980, Badger began a seven-week availability at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. She arrived in Subic Bay on 24 August for repairs before putting to sea on the 30th, bound for Vietnamese waters. USS BADGER FF 1071. Badger reached the patrol area in the northern Arabian Sea on 10 September and began four weeks of duty on that station. After four days in port, the destroyer escort put to sea and shaped a course for Yokosuka, Japan, where she made an overnight stop on 22 and 23 September before setting sail for the United States in company with Hancock. The two warships arrived there on 11 May, unloaded the planes, and returned to sea on the 12th. During that availability, she received extensive modifications including the addition of a basic point defense missile system (BPDMS) and of an independent variable depth sonar system. On 18 June, she embarked another Coast Guard detachment and set sail for the west coast to conduct another series of drug traffic interdiction missions in the eastern Pacific out of San Diego. She also made port calls at Singapore, Port Louis in Mauritius, Mombasa in Kenya, Karachi in Pakistan, and Colombo in Sri Lanka. In mid-January 1991, the warship resumed local training operations and pursued them until early June. From there, she moved to Keelung, Taiwan, for a visit between 3 and 8 April. She was back at sea the following afternoon; rejoined the exercise; and, following its conclusion, returned to Pearl on 21 September. Decommissioned December 20 1991. The USS BADGER (FF-1071), a Knox class frigate, was commissioned on 1 DEC 1970 as DE-1071. She returned to Hawaii from that mission on 24 January and settled into more than two months of local operations out of Pearl Harbor. On 7 July, the warship resumed plane guard duties, this time for the carrier USS Midway (CV-41), and departed Vietnamese waters in company with that carrier. She spent eight days in repairs at Yokosuka and then set a course back to the South China Sea where she carried out surveillance missions until the latter part of July. She was named for Commodore Oscar C. Badger On the 9th, Badger departed Subic Bay in company with destroyer escort USS Brewton (FF-1086) and ammunition ship Kiska bound for the Persian Gulf and the CENTO Exercise MIDLINK '73. She did not put to sea again until late May when she began refresher training, inspections, examinations, and certifications. This database is an indexed collection of the draft cards from the Fourth Registration. After a brief liberty call at Bandar Abbas, Badger got underway on the 3rd to return to the Philippines, again in company with Brewton and Kiska. On 8 February 1983, Badger embarked on a six-week cruise to the west coast in company with some other DesRon 25 units: USS Cochrane, USS Gray, and USS Lang. The warship made the voyage in six days, entering Pearl on 14 July. On 22 June, Badger stood out of Pearl Harbor on her way to the Far East as part of a task group built around Carl Vinson. She arrived in Danang, South Vietnam, two days later and, after a four-hour layover, again got underway, bound for the northern gunline near the mouth of the Cua Viet River. Badger continued to carry out training missions in the Hawaiian operating area well into 1988. Iran's release of the American hostages occurred on 19 January 1981, but Badger and the task group to which she was assigned, continued training evolutions in the Indian Ocean for eight weeks thereafter. Concluding a four-week absence, Badger returned to Oahu on 14 June and began preparations to deploy overseas. Following leave and upkeep, Badger got underway for tests on her main propulsion plant and associated equipment on 21 June 1974. Later that day, the ship headed back to Danang to have her five-inch (127 mm) gun barrel replaced by the repair ship USS Hector (AR-7). Post-deployment standdown lasted until mid-June at which time she resumed local operations in the Hawaiian Islands. From that port, she participated in MIDLINK '73 until its conclusion on 2 December. Lettering is Navy Blue & Yellow. Early in November, she called at Karachi, Pakistan, for a goodwill visit and carried out an ASW exercise with units of the Pakistani Navy. At that time, Badger stood out of Pearl Harbor for a six-week goodwill cruise to the South Pacific. Reaching Pearl Harbor on 12 December 1985, Badger spent the rest of that year and the first weeks of 1986 in port engaged, at first, in post-deployment and holiday standdown and, later, carrying out a six-week availability. At that time, Badger stood out of Pearl Harbor for a six-week goodwill cruise to the South Pacific. The exercise to sink the BADGER started on July 21, 1998. The three warships then carried out several exercises near Kauai on the Pacific missile range before beginning their voyage to the Far East on the 26th. Badger got underway for the first time in 1984 on 9 January when she put to sea for three days of tests and training with USS Omaha (SSN-692). The two warships rejoined the task group in the Bay of Bengal on 1 September and, after recovering debris from a helicopter crash, resumed the voyage to the Arabian Sea. Badger made a short stop at Subic Bay for fuel on 1 June and then set out for Japan. The latter stages of the operation were conducted in the Gulf of Aden and in the Gulf of Oman. On the 19th, Badger was switched to plane guard duty for the aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CV-64) in the Gulf of Tonkin. Throughout that deployment, she conducted exercises with units of Allied navies as well as with 7th Fleet units. Badger spent the next nine months engaged in exercises and drills conducted out of Pearl Harbor. This web site is dedicated to all of the Officers, Chiefs and Crew who served aboard USS JOSEPH HEWES DE/FF/FFT-1078 so well during her 23 years of United States Naval Service. The repair work continued through March and during the first two weeks of April; and, although she returned to sea on two occasions during the second part of April, it was only for brief sea trials. From that time until mid-March 1972, the destroyer escort conducted a series of underway tests and training evolutions and underwent readiness inspections. 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