A new committee is petitioning the Secretary of the Navy to choose a location in Alaska for the commissioning of the newest Navy destroyer, the USS Ted Stevens.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A new nonprofit has formed with the sole intention of bringing the recently-christened USS Ted Stevens — a Flight III Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer — to Alaska for its third and final step of bringing the ship into the battle fleet of the U.S. Navy.Now, thehas formed at 501 to develop a plan to bring the ship up from the Lower 48 for its commissioning.
“Our goal is to be able to have that commissioning here in Alaska,” said Capt. Brian Quin, chairman of the committee. “To be able to introduce the crew to Alaska, introduce Alaska to the crew, to celebrate the life and legacy of Ted Stevens the man, and to celebrate the life and legacy that’s yet to come for Ted Stevens the ship.”USS AnchoragePresident of the committee Lindsey Cashman said the national committee is still forming, with its first meeting as a nonprofit held on Tuesday.
“One of the biggest challenges that our committee has right now is to prepare for the team that’s going to decide if this ship will be commissioned in Alaska or elsewhere,” Cashman said. “My hope is in Alaska, and so what we need to do is build the team to make sure that happens.”, a position currently held by Carlos Del Toro. The goal of the commission is to petition the secretary to choose a location in Alaska as the site.
Both Quin and Cashman agree that Alaska is the most appropriate place to commission a warship named after Stevens, who“Here, we get this opportunity to continue his legacy, and our hope and our goal is to inspire people to not forget who he was,” Cashman said.put out by the committee, if a location in Alaska is chosen as the site of the week-long commissioning ceremony, it would take around two years and $1.5 million to put together.
According to Cashman, most of the funding will come from private donations and business sponsorships.
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