Brinkley Bass (DD 887) - Naval Cruise Book

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Back row, left to right: B, D, WILKINS, D. D. DRUMMOND, H. R, HILL Front row: L. H, DEW, A, F. HIGGINBDTHAM, J. T, MODOLA.

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STEWAHHS MATES The hottest suns of good old Subic Boy could not dompen the spirits of the mojority of this group of men. They were even glod to soil out to the For Eost lost June os it wos octuolly o homecoming for the Filipinos. These cruises ore the only opportunity they hove to toke leove ot home ond this one even gove them quite ci few liber- ties os the ship did quite o bit of operoting in the Philip- pine oreo. Now on our return, the stoteside contingent of the stewords ore rejoicing ond ore counting up those mony stondbys promised them. The Stewords os o whole ore o vitol cog in the oper- otion of the ship ond the efficiency with which it per- forms. Their job ronges from mointoining the spoces in officers' country, which is o full time job, ond serving in the wordroom, to holding down importont spots on gun mounts during Generol Quorters. Hoving hod to doubleup on their jobs while some were owoy on leove, these men hove come through with o horde eorned ond opprecioted well done. T A T i ll ' I 2:5 AX-j ,X va- - WWW M il fx ff-'li

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HIJSPITALMEN 8 SHIPS SEHVIIIEMEN The Hospital Corpsmen and Ships Servicemen are some of the behind the scenes men, who in their own way help make this ship as comfortable as possible. We might doubt it occasionally as we stand in the sick-bay line for a shot, as we stow our shredded clothes, or as we look at our scalped images in the mirror. In fact it has been said that some people' have even voiced these opinions on occasiong however, complain as we may, we surely do appreciate them. The barber's rating goes up about 200 per cent whenever we see the signs in the town barber shops, l-laircuts-51.75 Then we begin to think our haircut wasn't bad at all, in fact it was good considering that the barber must conform to a certain few regulations and therefore can't do'a special coiffure for each one of us. Now the same could be said about the laundryman and the corpsmen. For instance most of us wouldn't think of trading an occasional shredded shirt for even a week of the good old hand laundry we did back in boot camp. We all have our own personal reasons for thanking the corps- men whether it be for 1 putting our stomachs where they should be when the sea gets rough or fixing a head on which some blooming idiot drop- ped a beer bottle last c night. Our hat's off to a fine bunch of men. i A. .. L' 'IV I f if 5-