Phoenix (Arizona) Sailor Earns Historian Qualification Aboard USS Constitution

From the March 19, 2020, Glendale (Arizona) Independent by  Jennifer Jordan.

Hospital Corpsman Seaman Alfonso Ortiz-Lopez of Phoenix  earned his basic  interpretive  historian qualification aboard the USS Constitution on March 12.

Duty aboard the oldest warship in the world still in commission is one of the Navy's special programs with many steps to go through to serve on the ship.

The qualification means the sailor has studied and trained on the history of the ship and has learned about its history and battles, its design and the life of a sailor in the 1800s.  The sailors aboard the ship are active-duty and provide tours to the more than 600,000 who visit every year.

When a sailor meets the qualification, they get a special command ball cap with the word "crewmember" embroidered on the back of it

He is a 2019 graduate of Glendale High School and has served in the Navy for seven months.  The Constitution is his first duty station.

--Brock-Perry