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USS Cushing (DD 985) Crew List
The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Cushing (DD 985). Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. If you also served aboard and you remember one of the people below you can click on the name to send an email to the respective sailor. Would you like to have such a crew list on your website?
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There are 470 crew members registered for the USS Cushing (DD 985).
Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm – 1979 | 1980 – 1983 | 1984 – 1986 | 1987 – 1988 | 1989 – 1991 | 1992 – 1994 | 1995 – 1998 | 1999 – 2000 | 2001 – 2003 | 2004 – now
| Name | Rank/Rate | Period | Division | Remarks/Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodman, Goodie | EN3-EN2 | 1992 – 1995 | A gang | I love this ship I still can see EN2 Kaha beach pressing the EVAPS Yang sleep in Aux2. Them Dam DC taking crap LOL and beating up the BM's |
| Mize, Jason | STG3 | 1992 – | OS | Good times on the Cush |
| Padelford, Adan | SH3 | 1992 – 1995 | S2 | Good experience! Unitas was fun on liberty calls! |
| Padelford, Adan | E4/SH3 | Jan 29, 1992 – Sep 22, 1995 | Supply | Wanted to see if any old buddies are on here?What's up? |
Taglialavore, Michael  | STGCS | Feb 1992 – Feb 1994 | CSA | View 'back then' Photo |
| Turner, Bama | EW 1 | Feb 20, 1992 – Apr 10, 1995 | OT | Any of my old freinds that would like to get in touch, please feel free to do so |
| Coan, Dennis | CTM2 | Mar 5, 1992 – Mar 10, 1995 | OW02 | Great ship, good friends and memorable times (Chicken Ranch). |
| Urban, Shane | E2 | May 1992 – 1995 | Deck | Forever in dry dock long fire watches decking Sanders in the face fishing for hammerheads off the barge making fun of triple cheese an unforgettable night in Kona. What can i say a great great time. |
| Robert, Riley | SM3 | May 1, 1992 – Jun 15, 1994 | Communications | |
| Simon, Sparky | LT | May 10, 1992 – Feb 1994 | Fire Control/First Division | That softball team was awesome! Hiding in a church from the police in Caracas with Mike Forster was not. Going thru the ice that night in the Straits of Magellan is something I'll never forget. The Canal was alright too |
| Simon, Spark | LT | Jun 1, 1992 – Jan 31, 1994 | FC, Deck | What a great time with a great crew and some hard drinking Wardroom characters. Driving out of the Straights of Magellan thru the ice that last night is something I'll never forget. |
| Chirco, Robert | 985. | Jun 14, 1992 – Jun 6, 1994 | r | |
| Crawford, C K Chris | e-3 | Jun 19, 1992 – 1994 | Deck | Had TOO much fun. Stayed on restriction!! still had good times tho! |
| Thoms, Kenny | E-4 | Sep 15, 1992 – Jul 15, 1994 | DECK/Signal Bridge | Met ship in the middle of UNITAS....Great time, rough days in deck. Manage to get a full ride basketball scholarship...Thank you USS Cushing. S/O to Wash, Ag, Milk, Day. |
| Williams, Geoff | DC1 | Oct 8, 1992 – Mar 26, 1996 | Repair | Tough ship. Tough people. But by far best command in hind sight. |
| Bejar, Jose | SEAMAN | Oct 10, 1992 – Apr 10, 1994 | Deck | The Cushing was an awesome experience. The Unitas and Canada was an awesome time whenever BMC Goetz would give us liberty. |
| Landry, Mike | FC1 | Nov 1992 – Oct 1996 | Fox | Enjoyed my time on the Cush, the casualty of the day was always waiting for us, but it kept us busy. |
| Yanga, Emerson | EN3 | Dec 4, 1992 – Aug 4, 1995 | A-GANG | Whats up to the crew that went to UNITAS with us South America. |
| Coker, Fred "Chocolate Thunder" | E-3 | Dec 17, 1992 – Aug 1996 | OD | Real tough times, but met some cool people and had some fun. Navy Diver now in Little Creek, Va and going back to Mayport, FL to SIMA in Nov 06. Got my degree @ ITT and still trying to make 1st Damn!!! |
| Payne, Gary | GSM1 | 1993 – 1998 | MP | Update Feb 2004- GSCS Payne Marine Gas Turbine Inspector for Hawaii Regional Maintenance Center. |
| Hagen, Jerry | GSM2 | 1993 – 1996 | MP | Currently working in Power Generation |
| Purdy, Allen | GMG2 (SW) | 1993 – Oct 1996 | CG | Served on USS New Jersey from ‘88-‘90, Cushing from ‘ 93-‘96. I’m living on Maui since 1996. Married to Leina Shirota and have 4 kids. I am a supervisor for the Maui County of Water Supply. Looking forward to retirement. |
| Sullivan, Sean | GSE 3 | Jan 1993 – Sep 1995 | MP | Blood/Sweat/Laughs and Tears through the dirty years.Owe much to the Cush and great crew. Worked in CoGen plant, UPS fiield eng., Facilities Ops/critical systems mgr. and currently Commissioning/Test eng w/ Eng. Firm. |
| Bartee, Armaun | FC3 | Jan 1, 1993 – Jan 1, 1998 | THE ORIGINAL CM | Great ship had a blast, now im a Chief and I am working with was FC3 Peek (Now FCC) recruiting (again) in Florida,, hit me up. |
| Smith, Jim | E4/DK3 | Feb 16, 1993 – Feb 16, 1997 | Supply | |
| Viado`, Michael | YNC | May 4, 1993 – Jun 30, 1996 | NAV | Great ship, learned alot. Sad to see her on the bottom of the ocean as a reef. |
| Schoonmaker, Dean | OS3 | May 24, 1993 – Oct 13, 1996 | OI | Looking for anyone I got drunk with. |
| Forgie, Todd | OS 2 | Jun 1993 – Feb 1997 | Ops | I never thought I would miss the Cush! Now I hear the Turks have her? What an end for the best and last of the Sprucans. |
| Gardner, Brian | GSM2 | Jun 1993 – Feb 15, 1995 | mp eng | hey guy's hope to here from some of you miss hering from you i see gaine all the time and here from almond now and then but what about the rest of you drop a line. |
| Hock, Steve | BMSN | Jun 1, 1993 – Jun 20, 1996 | Deck/Medical/SAR | I had fun, learned alot, enjoyed some over great time, blood, sweat, no tears but regret turned out great. Working for Department of Justice, Federal. To deck and friends i have been their with all was great. Facebook... |
| Smith, James | DK3 | Jun 10, 1993 – Nov 15, 1996 | Supply | Tough times, good memories. It was a good tour spent a lot of time in dry dock. |
| Jarrod Evans, Rod | MR 3 | Jun 29, 1993 – Feb 19, 1996 | mp/r | |
| Beatty, Robert (Bob) | ETC | Jul 1, 1993 – Dec 15, 1995 | CE | Had a great time on the Cushing. Dealt with the stealth overhaul (ugh). Great sub-catcher, strong crew.I've got DD-985 plates on my van. Turning radius is about the same. |
| Lamboglia, Paul | E2 | Jul 7, 1993 – Jul 6, 1994 | Seaman | |
| Emberton, James | OS2 | Aug 1, 1993 – Aug 1, 1997 | OI | Hoping to touch base with some shipmates |
| Kilanski, Rick | OS2 | Sep 1993 – Sep 1994 | OI / ZONE 6 | It was a blast tearing the ship apart! |
| Gilmore, William, Happy Gilmore | DC3 | Sep 25, 1993 – Jul 15, 1995 | Repair | This was my first command. With the ship during drydock period. A broken ankle took me off the ship. Sorry to hear that she DECOM. Great ship, command and crew. |
| Kuder, Benjamin | E5 | 1994 – 1997 | Operations | |
| Dobbs, Drayton | E4 | 1994 – 1997 | S2 | |
| Mendoza, Raul | CTM2/CTN1(SW/FMF) | Jan 1994 – Dec 19, 1999 | OW | Good times, great friends, and the best crew I was ever apart of. |
| Dobbs, Dray | E4 | Jan 1, 1994 – May 1, 1996 | S2 | I Love being a SEABEE!! I am now EOC(SCW/FMF/SW) |
| Costello, Anthony | OS2 | Jan 12, 1994 – Dec 18, 1997 | OI | 2 years in the PHNSY...yeah Write if you want...looking for shipmates. |
| Blanchard, Carroll | SN | Jan 20, 1994 – Jun 7, 1996 | 1st | This was the best time I had in the navy. If I had to do it over again I wouldn't have left for A-school and stayed on board for the cruise. |
| Maitre, Alex | LTJG | Jan 26, 1994 – May 9, 1997 | Supply | I learned what a great crew under a lot of strain can do! I look back at CUSH as a time which seemed so difficult, but I still keep in touch with my O buddies, and wonder how Finn, Padelford, Lanclos, Smith, Galuvao, etc are doing. I'm a LCDR no |
| Howell, Sam | BMSM | Mar 1994 – Sep 1996 | GREAT SHIP LOVED IT | |
| Howarth, Sean | GMC | Mar 1, 1994 – Jun 1, 1997 | CM | |
| Craven, Justin | GSE 2 | Mar 13, 1994 – Mar 11, 1998 | ENG/MP/EE10 | The Dirty Cush, great crew, great times, great..... |
| Linscott, Jason | STG2 | Apr 1994 – Mar 1998 | CA | I was just out in Pearl Harbor (right after RIMPAC 2008 ended) and it sounds like the sale to the Turkish Navy didn't work out. They used her as a target ship for RIMPAC and she was sunk north of Kauai. (jlinscott2@yahoo.com) |
| Taglialavore, Michael | CWO2 | May 1994 – Jun 1995 | EMO | View 'back then' Photo |
| Ohnheiser, Joe | FCC(SW) | Jun 1994 – May 1999 | ||
| Holland, Jamal | RM2 | Jun 1994 – Jun 1998 | OC-01 | |
| Crews, Ray | YN2 | Jun 2, 1994 – Jul 5, 1997 | Ship Office | This was my first ship and I was there when they over haul the ship and add the VLS. I play on the ship softball team. I was on the ship when it was homeported out of Pearl Harbor HI. I did one Westpac with USS CUSHING DD 985. |
| Dobbs, William (Dray) | MS3 | Jun 9, 1994 – Mar 21, 1997 | S2 | |
| Kuder, Benjamin | CTR2 (SW) | Jun 15, 1994 – Nov 7, 1997 | OUTBOARD | Great crew that always worked hard and played hard. |
| Claggett, Robert | STG2 | Jul 1994 – Feb 1999 | CA | "Free the Dirty Cush!!" Took her from dry-dock to the Middle East to Yokosuka. The Crew of this ship was the finest I have had the priveldge of serving with. |
| Teska, Derrick | fn | Jul 1994 – 1996 | engineering | Had some good times and some bad. Now own my own commercial construction company and full time firefighter. I just got promoted to captain. Looking for old ship mates. |
| Fyffe, Bryan | SHSN | Oct 1994 – May 1997 | Supply | Dirty Cush. Deck/OD then to Supply/S-3. Tough work, but tougher shipmates. I'm proud to have been a part of it. |
| Stein, Ryan "Rheno" | SK3 | Oct 1994 – Jan 1998 | S-1 | Started off in Deck division undesignated, then struck SK. Some great memories onboard, I miss the old Cush and ships like her. |
| Perry, John | GMG3 | Oct 15, 1994 – Sep 25, 1997 | CG | |
| Richardson, Brian | PN3 | Oct 22, 1994 – Dec 31, 1997 | ||
| Litchford, John | QMC | Nov 3, 1994 – Apr 10, 1995 | NAV | go into yards - update to vertical missile launcher - get sunk as practice target - where does the money go ? tosssed out with the bath water |
| Costa, Sebastian "Boogie" | EM3 | Dec 24, 1994 – Mar 6, 1998 | E |
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