Brinkley Bass (DD 887) - Naval Cruise Book

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Buck row, left to right: J. L. HOUGH, L. B. FELDER, J. T. BREWER. Front row: A. E. HAMILTON W. E. LESTER, D. J. KURSINSKY. '

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SUNAHMEN The ping boys, os the sonormen ore jokingly colled, ore port of the nervous system ot the ship. They rep- resent the ship's sense of heciring. Whenever we're un- derwoy they ore down in the sonor shock pinging, troin- ing, ond listening, o job thot con get monotonous going ping, ping, ping tor tive hours ot o time, with no one to listen to but the porpoises, ond porpoises ore generolly known to moke very dull conversotionolists. lt con be'- come dull, but once they go otter o sub it is onything but boring. They woit eogerly for thot first echo. When they do pick up the echo there ore mony questions to be onswered. ls it o sub, which woy is it going, how deep is it, ond finolly whot ore they going to do obout it? When they decide on the lost, the ottock is on. ln the lost few moments of the ottock, o period much I ,.5,2,QgQ4Z'-Q,-A 0 more exciting thon o ,.s14iY5'Q:Q,QfPQ: - Qlffp' NN shoot em-up picture, our T ommo is expended ond onother submorine hits the dust. ' The sonormen ore not only operotors, they ore technicions becouse, they - ore entrusted with the mointenonce of oll the Ti sonor geor. During this cruise's Hunter- Killer exercises, XC-D these men eorned for the , ship the distinction of be- X ing the best onti-submo- rine ship in the screen. l Sonor Contact