Category: USS Samuel Gompers (AD-37), United States Navy

Categories: United States Navy Ships

This category contains profiles of those who served aboard the USS Samuel Gompers (AD-37)
  • Commissioned: 1 July 1967
  • Decommissioned: 27 October 1995
  • Status: Sunk as target, 22 July 2003

USS Samuel Gompers (AD-37) was a destroyer tender, the first of her class, and designed to be a floating repair shop for ships of the U.S. Navy either in port or at sea. It was named for Samuel Gompers, a distinguished American labor leader during the late nineteenth century.

Samuel Gompers earned

  • Vietnam Service Medal
  • Southwest Asia Medal
  • Navy Expeditionary Medal
  • Humanitarian Service Medal
  • Navy Unit Commendation
  • Joint Meritorious Unit commendations
  • Letter of Commendation from the Secretary of the Navy
  • Five Battle "E" Ribbons.

See Wikipedia:USS_Samuel_Gompers_(AD-37)

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