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T H E bright penny July - Sept. 2013 A NEWSLETTER FOR MEMBERS OF THE USS BERKELEY (DDG-15) ASSOCIATION Setting Course for Jacksonville! Reunion Update Red Cavaney’s Navy career was short- In the Spotlight lived, but built the leadership and The 2014 reunion will managerial foundation, particularly his take place September 25 service aboard the USS Berkeley, that -28 at the Crowne Plaza has served him exceptionally well in his Jacksonville-Riverfront post-Navy career and into retirement. He hotel. Room rates start grew up in the Southern California town at $95 + tax per night of Alhambra; his father having served as (single/double a US Navy LT aboard a Destroyer occupancy), and those rates are available Escort (DE) in the North Atlantic during for one day prior and post reunion. A WWII. Red was an NROTC Regular complimentary hot breakfast buffet is undergraduate at the University of available in the American Grill, and Southern California (USC), receiving his complimentary self parking is available Ensign bars in June, 1964. for our attendees. There is also a 20% discount in the American Grill restaurant. Red’s first assignment upon receiving his Commission was as DCA, and later Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse (Jacksonville’s Operations Officer, aboard the Long premier steakhouse), Starbucks and two Beach-based USS Dynamic (MSO 432). bars are also in the hotel. There is After attending the Navy DCA, complimentary internet access, and a 24- Engineering, and Minesweeper schools; hour business center and a fitness center he returned to the USS Dynamic for are also available. The hotel is about 20 underway training prior to WestPac minutes from the Jacksonville airport. deployment in 1965, as part of the first Ensign Cavaney Restaurants and shopping are within Squadron of Minesweepers to make the walking distance. trans-Pacific voyage on their own U.S. naval warships. The experience wooden, flat bottoms. Following the did, however, provide invaluable Reunion events will include a Bull month-long transit, with fuel stops in insights--reinforcing ingenuity, Session, a Lady’s Event, our Welcome Hawaii, Johnson Island, Guam and resourcefulness, stamina, decision- Reception, and the Saturday night Subic Bay; the USS Dynamic was making on-the-fly and the critical nature Banquet. We hope to have tour assigned to Operation Market Time, the of teamwork. After a year-long WestPac information and a list of Things to Do in multi-force interdiction operation deployment, USS Dynamic returned to covering the South Vietnamese coast Jacksonville and the surrounding area its Long Beach homeport and, soon from the North Vietnamese to the available prior to the October newsletter. thereafter, Red received orders to report Cambodian borders, including the to USS Berkeley (DDG 15), as Our biannual business meeting will be Saigon River and other tributaries in the Navigator and CIC Officer. held Saturday morning in the Hospitality Delta. Room. Following Navy school attendance at Given that nothing quite like the FAAWTC and Navigation in San We plan to add other events such as the Market Time operation had been Diego, Red reported aboard Bright briefings held at the past two reunions. undertaken for decades, and with an Penny, which was on its way home to These briefings (mesothelioma at the onboard crew manning a 170-foot Long Beach from its WestPac wooden boat with absolutely no 2010 and 72 Berkeley Ops at the 2012 deployment. Red very fondly magnetic signature; the whole remembers his experiences and reunion) were very informative and well interdiction effort took on a flavor closer professional growth onboard Bright received by the audiences. to that of McHale’s Navy than the spit Penny. In fact, he considers that tour of and polish so often associated with the (Continued on page 2) The Bright Penny - July - Sept. 2013 Page 2 USS BERKELEY ASSOCIATION Chaplain's (Red Cavaney cont’d from page 1) 5553 Makati Circle duty to be the turning point in his life. He San Jose, CA 95123 Corner 408-656-3879 By Chaplain felt he learned from the very best in the Bill Perry Navy; and he embraced leadership E Mail: [email protected] principles and analytical decision-making Website: www.USSBerkeley.com Annual Dues: $20.00 that proved invaluable, as he moved Director: Al Meier throughout his career in the years Asst. Director: Dale Johnson following. Secretary: Pat Clark & Tammy Meier Al Meier Treasurer: Gerald Hansen Red counts among his mentors USS Membership Committee Chairman: Al Meier Berkeley Commanding Officers CDR Bill Regional Chairmen: WHEN YOU ATTEND CHURCH— Smedberg and CDR Tom Ward, Northeast: Duane LeDoux Operations Officer Gordon Monteath, Southeast: Randy Wilkins What do you expect from the preaching? North Central: Larry Norris Weapons Officer John Leder, Fire South Central: Don Carson Control Officer Carl Everett, If you expect to come away with intellectual Northwest: Ron Bravo Communications Officer Jim Barrett and Southwest: Dr. William Perry insights, you will find something to satisfy many, many other Bright Penny Ship’s Store Mgr: Gerald Hansen that desire. colleagues too numerous to set forth in Bright Penny Editor & Publisher: William Stevens this article. Red feels as though he got Webmaster: Jim Barrett If you expect the preacher to say something the equivalent of a Master’s Degree in ACVA Representative: Rex McCoy debatable, you will. Newsletter Distribution: To dues current members via Leadership and Management from as e-mail in pdf form and to non–e-mail members via U.S. Mail. talented a group of mentors and If you expect to judge the quality of the colleagues as assembled anywhere. message, you will find something he said Additionally, Bright Penny’s WestPac wrong or could have said differently. deployment off the North Vietnamese coast involved various tasks, like North Berkeley History If you expect to have a to-do-list for moral SAR and other assignments as part of improvement, you will find opportunity for Operation Rolling Thunder, and was a July 2013 behavior modification to try harder and do literal “living laboratory” of next- better. generation technology naval warfare. 50 Year Ago, 1963 Dates not specified in Command History But of course if… As Red reached the end of his four-year log. The ship did visit Portland for the NROTC obligation, he left Bright Penny Rose Festival. The ship also spent a few you expect life transformation, you will and headed for San Francisco to muster days in the Shipyard at San Francisco. discover the spirit exposing sin and fostering out of the service and join is wife, Vicki, greater desire for repentance. and son in Balboa; only to be informed 40 Years Ago, 1973 that President Johnson had extended for 01 – 31 Inport, PSNS you expect to become like Jesus, you will be an additional year all ROTC/NROTC 02 – 03 Light-off Examination, Fwd granted fresh eyes of faith to behold Jesus. Regular Officers to “meet the needs of the Engine Room service”. His new orders were to report to you expect to be used in the service of the the USS Leader (MSO 490) as Executive 30 Years Ago, 1983 Kingdom, you will find the Word Officer and Squadron Navigator, as the 01 – 04 Inport San Diego empowering and enabling you to bear fruit squadron prepared to leave for WestPac 05 – 08 Underway SOCAL disproportionate to your abilities. deployment to Market Time operations. (REFTRA Phase I) Needless to say, it proved to be a long, 09 – 10 Inport San Diego you expect to meet God, you will find God additional year; and he mustered out in 11 – 15 Underway SOCAL will not pass by without glimpses of His June 1969 to join his family and yet-to-be (REFTRA Phase I) glory and grace. -seen, new daughter. 16 – 17 Inport San Diego 18 – 22 Underway SOCAL The question is… Upon leaving the Navy, Red joined (REFTRA Phase I) Security Pacific Bank in Irvine CA and 23 – 31 Inport San Diego What are you expecting whenever you come quickly rose to AVP/Branch Manager. As under the authority and power of God’s part of a national effort by the Nixon 20 Years Ago, 1993 living and active, faith-engendering, sin- White House to identify 50 top young In service with the Hellenic Navy of exposing, Christ-exalting, Gospel-centered leaders, Red was selected as one and Greece as the H.S. Themistokles Word? joined President Nixon’s White House staff; subsequently also serving on the White House Senior Staffs of Presidents Ford and Reagan as well. In February 1983, he left government and joined the The Bright Penny - July - Sept. 2013 Page 3 Ahoy Berkeley Beauties prizes. From conversations in San (Red Cavaney cont’d from page 2) By Pat Clark Diego and on Facebook I know we private sector to serve as President & have more than a few creative Berkeley CEO of three successive major trade associations—American Forest & Paper Ahoy Berkeley Beauties who quilt, sew, scrapbook etc. Association, American Plastics Council, Beauties (aka BBs), I am proposing a “block challenge”, I and American Petroleum Institute (API). will provide a cotton “fabric photo” 4” During his time at API, Red lost his first Well, 2013 is X 6” of the USS Berkeley underway wife to a series of strokes. However, moving right along and a cotton “fabric photo” 4 ”x good fortune later smiled on him, and isn’t it. I’m sure the 5” of the ship’s crest to anyone who Red married his current wife, Sheri, who Christmas sales will shares an interest similar to his own in would like to participate. start soon. LOL! public policy, earlier serving on Capitol BTW, I’m wearing Hill and later for the American Institute The challenge would be to express another hat.