USS Jason Dunham Gets New Gas Turbine Engine

When the gas turbine engine that powers one of the generators aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) failed, a fly-away team from Mayport, Florida, was dispatched from the Southeast Regional Maintenance Center (SERMC) with engine in-hand.

The ship was deployed in the Caribbean when two of its three generators experienced some issues and pulled into port at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Chief Gas Turbine System Technician (Mechanical)(SW) Maurice Waller said:

Their number two generator had problems with an electrical breaker, and number three had a bearing failure on the gas turbine engine that powers the generator, which is the engine we replaced.

The team left Sunday, Feb. 8 via C-130 aircraft from Naval Air Station Jacksonville loaded with a new engine, connex box with tools and rigging gear, and a special van that would transport everything to the ship. By Wednesday evening, Feb. 11, the engine was replaced, operationally tested and the ship was underway again Thursday.

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