[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 5, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S5867]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              TRIBUTE TO CAPT. GEORGE H. HUBAN, U.S. NAVY

  Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, I rise to take this opportunity to honor 
Captain George Huban who will retire shortly from the U.S. Navy after 
28 years of faithful service to our Nation.
  Captain Huban is a 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. Following 
his commissioning, Captain Huban served aboard the destroyer USS Noa in 
Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. He later attended the Supply 
Corps School and served as Supply Officer on the attack submarine USS 
Haddock. Captain Huban then went on to a variety of tours including 
Squadron Supply Officer to ballistic missile Submarine Squadron 
Fifteen; contracting officer at the Naval Sea Systems Command; 
assistant to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations; Supply Officer, USS 
Pugent Sound; and Commander, Sixth Fleet Supply, where he coordinated 
logistics support for fleet operations off the coast of Lebanon.
  Following these tours, Captain Huban served at several senior staff 
positions. From 1986 to 1988, he served as Executive Assistant to the 
Deputy Comptroller of the Navy and was then named Assistant Director of 
Acquisition Policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the 
Navy. Captain Huban then served as Director of Supply Corps Personnel 
at the Naval Supply Systems Command in Washington, DC.
  His final tour in the Navy was as the Commanding Officer of the Navy 
Supply Corps School in Athens, GA. Although Captain Huban was born in 
Vermont, the residents of Athens, GA, welcomed him and now consider him 
one of their own. I am certain he will continue to play in active role 
in the community following his retirement. While serving as Commanding 
Officer at the Navy Supply Corp School, he has been instrumental in 
providing the highest quality of logistics training to officers and 
enlisted personnel not only to Navy personnel but to all U.S. service 
personnel, armed forces personnel of many of our allied nations, and 
Department of Defense civilian personnel. Captain Huban will be 
followed by Captain John Drerup as Commanding Officer at the Supply 
Corps School.
  A man of Captain Huban's character and dedication is rare indeed. His 
outstanding service will be genuinely missed, and I am pleased to 
recognize him before the U.S. Senate. Let me also recognize his wife 
Patricia and daughter Cristin. The sacrifices they have made in support 
of Captain Huban's service are equally noteworthy. I wish him and his 
family all the best as he brings to a close a long and distinguished 
career in the U.S. Navy.

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