The USS CARR (FFG-52) will arrive in Curacao for a port visit on 25 September, 2009. The USS CARR is currently deployed in the Caribbean under the operational control of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command, conducting counter-illicit trafficking operations in support of Joint Interagency Task Force-South, U.S. Law Enforcement, and U.S. and participating nations drug control policy.
While in Curacao, the USS CARR crew will participate in a community relations project together with the Jeugd Luchtvaart Brigade (Youth Air Brigade).
The USS CARR, an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, is named after Gunners Mate Third Class Paul Henry Carr, USNR (1924-1944) who came from Checotah, Oklahoma. Paul Henry Carr served as gun mount captain, of the after 5-inch gun, on the destroyer escort USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (DE 413) during the battle of Leyte Gulf.
USS CARR is home ported in Norfolk, VA and is commanded by Commander Eric H. Ver Hage. The ship was commissioned in 1985 and has a crew of approximately 212 officers and enlisted personnel. For more information on USS CARR, please visit their webpage at: http://www.carr.navy.mil/
