Three days later he was assigned to USS Cassin Young (DD-793) to assist in readying the ship for her commissioning on December 31, 1943. On August 2, he entered the Naval Training School at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and graduated from the Naval Boiler and Turbine Lab on November 8. On November 16, 1940, McCartney boarded the battleship USS Arkansas (BB-33) on which he would serve until March 1943, leaving with a promotion to chief watertender. McCartney then immediately moved to another destroyer, the USS Rogers (DD-254), where he assisted with the ship’s reactivation and overhaul until she was transferred to the Royal Navy on June 30, 1940. His next assignment, aboard the destroyer USS Peary (DD-226), lasted from May 1937 to November 1939. McCartney first worked in one of the ship’s firerooms as a fireman and later earned the rating of watertender. Jasper enlisted on Decemand a little over six months later he was a member of the crew of the battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48), on which he served until November 30, 1936.

He would go on to spend much of his life at sea, in service to the U.S.

Jasper Clarence McCartney was born on Februin the landlocked town of Mangham, Louisiana.

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