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AD 42 ( XLII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Largus (or, less frequently, year 795 Ab urbe condita ).
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- Construction and Commissioning
- Service History
- Decommissioning and Fate
- Awards, Citations, and Campaign Ribbons
- References
Acadia was ordered on 11 March 1976, laid down on 14 February 1978 at San Diego, California, by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, launched on 28 July 1979, sponsored by Mrs. Clarence R. Bryan, wife of Vice Admiral Clarence R. Bryan, and commissionedon 6 June 1981.
1981–1987
Acadia completed her outfitting at her builder's yard on 6 July and then made the brief trip to Naval Station San Diego. After a month clearing details and getting ready, the destroyer tender embarked upon her shakedown cruise on 7 August. That voyage took her to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and back to San Diego where she arrived on 28 August. When the ship returned to her home port, her crew concentrated their efforts on honing their skills as repairmen; and, except for a few brief periods at sea...
1987–1994
On 5 September 1990 the ship departed San Diego for the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. She was responsible for the first reload of shipboard Tomahawk missiles outside the continental United States while pierside in Mina Jebel Ali. The reload recipient was the guided missile destroyer John Paul Jones. This was the first wartime deployment of a mixed male-female crew on a U.S. Navy combat vessel. Just over one-third of her crew were women, which caused s...
On 16 December 1994, Acadia was decommissioned and laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was struck from the Naval Register on 13 December 2007 and used as a target off Guam as part of a day-long bombardment of ordnance delivered from naval aircraft and ships during exercise Valiant Shield on 19–...
Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right 1. Top row – Navy Unit Commendation 2. Second row – Navy Battle "E" Ribbons (5), Navy Expeditionary Medal (2-Persian Gulf), National Defense Service Medal 3. Bottom row – Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2-Persian Gulf, 1-Somalia), Southwest Asia Service Medal, Defense and Liberation of Kuw...
This article includes information collected from the public domain sources Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Shipsand Naval Vessel Register.
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AD 42 (XLII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Largus. The denomination AD 42 for this year has been used since the Early Middle Ages, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Dec 5, 2022 · Incumbent Jacqui Irwin defeated Lori Mills in the general election for California State Assembly District 42 on November 8, 2022.
