USS Wayne E. Meyer

For other ships with the same name, see USS Wayne.

History
Arriving to homeport at San Diego, California in December 2009.
United States
Name:	USS Wayne E. Meyer
Namesake:	Rear Admiral Wayne E. Meyer
Awarded:	9 September 2002
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	18 May 2007
Launched:	19 October 2008
Sponsored by:	Anna Mae Meyer
Acquired:	10 July 2009^[1]
Commissioned:	10 October 2009
Homeport:	San Diego, California
Motto:	"One Powerful Legacy"
Status:	in active service
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 tons
Length:	509 ft 6 in (155.30 m)
Beam:	66 ft (20 m)
Draft:	31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed:	exceeds 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement:	275 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 × 5 in/62 (127 /62), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns 2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters

USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG-108) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named after Rear Admiral Wayne E. Meyer, who is known as the Father of Aegis. The ship is part of Destroyer Squadron 21 of Carrier Strike Group Three which is currently headed by the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis. Wayne E. Meyer is the 58th destroyer in her class. She carries the 100th AEGIS Weapon System to be delivered to the United States Navy.^[2]

Construction and career

Wayne E. Meyer was built by Bath Iron Works, and was christened by sponsor Anna Mae Meyer (wife of Admiral Meyer) and launched on 18 October 2008.

Wayne E. Meyer completed sea trials in June 2009 and was delivered to the Navy in July 2009.^[1] She was commissioned on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 10 October 2009. Wayne E. Meyer arrived at her homeport in San Diego, California on 4 December 2009.^[3]

Wayne E. Meyer celebrated her first change of command on 8 April 2011 with Executive Officer CDR Leo Albea relieving the ship's first Commanding Officer, CDR Nick Sarap.

Wayne E. Meyer made her maiden deployment as part of the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group from 29 July 2011 until 27 February 2012. She made port calls in Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Bahrain, Dubai, and the Philippines.

Commanding officers

The commanding officer of USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG-108) is a United States Navy officer that is the most senior officer on ship. The CO is the ultimate authority over operations of Wayne E. Meyer and her crew.

List of commanding officers

#	Name	Start of tenure	End of tenure
5	CDR Vincent A. Fortson ^[4]	000000002016-07-29-000029 July 2016	999999999999-99-99-0000
4	CDR Adam L. Fleming ^[4]	000000002015-03-31-000031 March 2015	000000002016-07-29-000029 July 2016
3	CDR Randy Jay Van Rossum ^[4]	000000002013-08-30-000030 August 2013	000000002015-03-31-000031 March 2015
2	CDR Leopoldo Sardalla J. Albea ^[4]	000000002011-04-08-00008 April 2011	000000002013-08-30-000030 August 2013
1	CDR Nick Sarap^[4]	000000002009-10-10-000010 October 2009	000000002011-04-08-00008 April 2011

Deployments

29 July 2011- 27 February 2012
20 March 2014- 20 October 2014

In popular culture

Wayne E. Meyer was featured on the "Destroyer Disaster" episode of the Food Network show Dinner: Impossible .^[5]

Wayne E. Meyer was featured in the TV show The Last Ship.

References

1 2 "Navy Accepts Delivery of Future USS Wayne E. Meyer". Navy News Service. 10 July 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
↑ "Destroyer to be named for weapons developer", Courier-Post, 10 October 2009.
↑ FAQ
1 2 3 4 5 http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/01111.htm/
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External links

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Christening party at the USS Wayne E. Meyer Christening at Bath Iron Works 18 October 2008
Stern view of USS Wayne E. Meyer prior to launching 18 October 2008

Arleigh Burke-class destroyers

Flight I ships

Flight II ships

Flight IIA ships

5"/54 variant	Oscar Austin Roosevelt

5"/62 variant	Winston S. Churchill Lassen Howard Bulkeley McCampbell Shoup Mason Preble Mustin Chafee Pinckney Momsen Chung-Hoon Nitze James E. Williams Bainbridge Halsey Forrest Sherman Farragut Kidd Gridley Sampson Truxtun Sterett Dewey Stockdale Gravely Wayne E. Meyer Jason Dunham William P. Lawrence Spruance Michael Murphy John Finn Ralph Johnson Rafael Peralta Thomas Hudner Paul Ignatius Daniel Inouye Delbert D. Black Carl M. Levin Frank E. Petersen Jr. Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee

Flight III ships

Harvey C. Barnum Jr.

Preceded by: Kidd class
Followed by: Zumwalt class

List of destroyers of the United States Navy

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