Lt. Brian Luebbert Commanding Officer Patrol Coastal Crew Bravo

摘要

I was born in Henderson and raised in Cadiz, Ky., a small town, not a lot going on there. I knew that I needed to do something with my life other than staying there and working construction. The Navy was a good fit for me. I liked being on the water. I thought I would enjoy it and I have. I became an opticalman on the sub tender USS Dixon. My primary focus was submarine periscopes. Through the Enlisted Commissioning Program, I attended the University of Texas at Austin, majored in economics and was commissioned through the NROTC [Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps] unit. I served on two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, USS McFaul and USS Oscar Austin, and obtained a master's degree in finance at the Naval Postgraduate School. I volunteered for the patrol coastal ship (PC) community. I enjoy the small crew: four officers and 24 enlisted men. In the patrol coastal navy, you spend more time with your shipmates than you do your family, not just while we're on deployment. When we're back in the states, we spend a lot of time on the ship getting ready to turn around and deploy again. I usually see my kids about three hours a day on good days; a little bit more once we first return from deployment. It draws my family closer because the time that I am at home, we don't take it for granted.