The Navy Office of Community Outreach is recognizing the men and women serving as the US celebrates 250 years.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Quincee O’Donahue, of Dennison, joined the Navy three years ago, noting in a release, that her dad and friends were Marines with other family members having a military background and this served as inspiration to join the military.
O’Donahue, a 2023 Claymont graduate, service as an engineman currently assigned to USS Germantown, a dock landing ship operating out of Naval Base San Diego. She says a major accomplishment to date is having the opportunity to decommission a ship in her first contract.
Meanwhile, 2022 Carrollton High School graduate, Petty Officer 3rd Class Rylan Brady, joined the Navy two years ago and currently serves as an information systems technician aboard a fast-attack submarine homeported at Naval Station Norfolk.
The USS Newport News is designed to hunt down and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships, strike target ashore, and provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions. In the NAVCO release, Brady notes a proud moment was fixing a supply computer network after troubleshooting for just over two months.
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