page_title: Frederick T. Moore Jr.
section_title: Commanding officer - USS Saratoga (CV-60)
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick T. Moore Jr. / Commanding officer - USS Saratoga (CV-60)
caption_attribution_description: English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60) underway in the Adriatic Sea on 29 July 1992. Saratoga, with assigned Carrier Air Wing 17 (CVW-17), was deployed to the Mediterreanean Sea from 6 May to 6 November 1992.
context_page_description: Frederick T. Moore Jr. was a United States Navy captain. During World War II, he was executive officer of Fighter Squadron 1 operating off the carrier USS Yorktown and commanding officer of the Air Group 35 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Chenango in the Pacific. During the Korean War, he was the commanding officer of naval air training at NAS Pensacola and the air officer on USS Coral Sea. His first sea command was aboard USS Suribachi. In 1962–1963, Moore was the eighth commanding officer of USS Saratoga. Late in his career during the Vietnam War, he was Chief of Staff of the Naval Air Training Command at Naval Air Station Pensacola from October 1965 to July 1969.
context_section_description: Captain Moore was the eighth commanding officer of USS Saratoga, one of the most powerful 'super carrier' warships in the world at the time, homeported in Mayport, Florida. The first deployment for Moore after he took command was to sail to the Caribbean Sea in December 1962 to conduct flight operations off the coast of Cuba. Although the flash points of the Cuban Missile Crisis had cooled a month earlier, the United States wanted to maintain a presence in the area until all of the Soviet Union missile sites were fully dismantled. This was called the Cuban Quarantine Operation. In late 1962, Saratoga remained "on the line" in the waters off Cuba. During this time, a Russian ship was spotted moving toward Cuba – and the embargo line where it would turn back or be challenged by American ships. Saratoga crew scrambled to battle stations as general quarters was ordered by Moore. The fighter jets on the flight deck readied for launch. [Moore was about to be tested in a potentially large-scale international incident and he wasn't about to back down.] The Russian ship quickly turned around and sailed away. Although the crisis ended in late December 1962, the American ships, including Saratoga, remained in the area through the winter. Saratoga received an Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for the 3–20 December 1962 period that she was "on-line" in the waters off Cuba.
  Saratoga deployed to the Mediterranean Sea from March 1963 through October 1963.  When not conducting flight operations underway, Saratoga entered several ports on the mission of goodwill ambassador for the United States. Ports visited were: Marseille; Barcelona; Cannes; Naples; Athens; Taranto; Genoa; Istanbul; Palma de Mallorca; Palermo; Venice; Capri; and Gibraltar.
  While operating in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of France, a Grumman E-1 Tracer landed on the deck of Saratoga, logging the carrier's 69,000th arrested landing. Later on the cruise, the 72,000th arrested landing was made with a Douglas A-1 Skyraider off the coast of Italy. Newest addition to the “Ten Thousand Trap Club” was Moore, who was credited with 10,000 arrested landings when a McDonnell F3H Demon landed on the carrier in the Mediterranean. Yet another milestone was reached on the 1963 cruise with the 76,000th landing aboard Saratoga.
caption: USS Saratoga
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