Barbey (FF 1088) - Naval Cruise Book

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WestPac 76-77 30 Jul 76 Depart San Diego 06-13 Aug 76 Comptuex 1-7T, Hawaiian Opareas 14-17 Aug 76 Inport Pearl Harbor 25 Aug 76 Inchop Seventh Fleet 25 Aug-05 Sep 76 Escort duty, Philippine Sea 06-24 Sep 76 Inport Subic Bay 12-29 Oct 76 Exercise Kangaroo II 30 Oct-06 Nov 76 Inport Geelong 17-21 Nov 76 ASW Escort Duty, Philippine Sea 22 Nov- 11 Dec 76 Inport Subic Bay 12-22 Dec 76 ASW Multiplex Misslex, Philippine Sea | 23-28 Dec 76 Inport Subic Bay 1 31 Dec 76-05 Jan 77 Inport Hong Kong 1 1 08-14 Jan 77 Inport Subic Bay ■ 1 15-26 Jan 77 Readiex 1-77 ASW Exercises, Philippine Sea 1 Zndian Ocean Jropic aP Capncam 27 Jan-12 Feb 77 Inport Apra Harbor, Guam 17-18 Feb 77 Inport Subic Bay 21 Feb 77 Inport Kaohsiung 22-25 Feb 77 Exercise Sharkhunt XX 26 Feb 77 Inport Kaohsiung 28 Feb-01 Mai 77 Inport Subic Bay 06 Mar 77 Inport Apra Harbor, Guam 14 Mar 77 Inport Pearl Harbor 14-21 Mar 77 Operation T ger. Pearl Harbor to San Dieeo 21 Mar 77ARRIVAL PIER SEVEN, NAVSTA SAN DIEGO ■

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ding of more than a million fighting men with their weapons, equipment, and supplies. His fearless leadership, tactical skill, and inspiring devotion to duty were recognized by the award of the Navy Cross, three awards of the Distinguished Service Medal, and Legion of Merit. At the close of World War II. Vice Admiral Barbey landed the occupation forces in Korea and carried out the delicate mission of redistributing Chinese Nationalist troops in China. Korea and Manchuria. Later, he was Commander. Caribbean Sea Frontier (1947-1950), often acting as U. S. representative to the republics of that ocean area. At the time of his retirement on 30 June 1951, he was Commandant of the 13th Naval District. At his retirement Vice Admiral Barbey had been in his coun- try ' s service for over 43 years. Vice Admiral Daniel Edward Barbey died 11 April 1969. RADM BARBEY and GEN Douglas Mac ARTHUR inspect the invasion beaches at Morotai. Netherlands East Indies, on the first day of landings there, 15 September 1944.

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Uniied Stdt(26 THE NUMBERS GAME During the almost eight months between 31 July 1976 and 21 March 1977. fii4 B£y steamed some 39,626 nautical miles, burning some 3,140,671 gallons of fuel. In addition, the air detachment conducted some 395 landings and take-offs, con- suming 32,311 gallons of JP-5. (The total fuel bill came to $1,221,601.04.) The crew ate 169,249 meals on board, devour- ing almost 14 tons of bread and washing it all down with 92,163 cups of coffee, 75,013 cans of soda and 202,560 glasses of milk. $547,169.78 was paid to the crew, 967 movies were shown and the corpsmen gave 1135 shots. To provide all these items, a total of 24 underway replenishments, both alongside and ver- tical, were conducted.