I QRBIS TERR.WAI DE.sCRIPTIQ DU f% i 1 I THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO - - Wives, Children, Relatives And Friends Who Endured The Hardships Of Separation. USS BRONSTEIN (FF 1037) USS BRONSTEIN is the first of the modern classes of submarine hunting frigates. Built by Avondale Shipyard in Westwego, Louisiana, as was her sister ship USS McCLOY (FF 1038), BRONSTEIN ' s keel was laid 16 May 1961 and the ship was placed into commission 15 June 1963. She is the second ship to bear the name of Lieutenant (junior grade) Ben Richard Bronstein, Medical Corps, US Navy Reserve, who lost his life in action aboard USS JACOB JONES (DD 130) in a submarine engagement off the East Coast of the United States in World War IL The first BRONSTEIN (DE 189), commissioned in 1943, was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for sinking three submarines during World War IL BRONSTEIN has an overall length of 37 feet and displaces 2650 tons. Equipped with the advanced SQR-15 Towed Array Sonar System as well as the powerful SQS-26 Sonar, the ship ' s primary mission is the very long range detection, tracking and destruction of submarines. Working in close coordination with other advanced ASW forces of the Pacific Fleet, BRONSTEIN is a leader in the development of modern coordination anti-submarine tactics. The ship alternates training operations in the Eastern Pacific under Commander, U. S. THIRD FLEET and deployments to the Western Pacific under Commander, U. S. SEVENTH FLEET. Crewed by 200 men and 15 officers the ship has gained a reputation as a highly ready, Can Do team who, styling themselves as The Best in the West , always seek to produce quality in everything they do. BRONSTEIN is a member of the Little Beaver Squadron — Destroyer Squadron TWO THREE — the oldest, most famous, and most highly decorated destroyer squadron in the Navy. FROM PAST TQ PRESENT COMMANDER LARRY L SEAQUIST ■COMMANDING H OFFICER T A erad I A graduate of Oregon State University. Commander Seaquist was commissioned from Officer Candidate School in 1964. Prior to assuming command of BRONSTEIN in December 197fi he completed a year long tour as a Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. D.C. CDR Seaquist ' s previous duty at sea have included assignments as Commanding Officer, USS BEACON (PG 99); Veai) )ns Officer. USS CHARE (DD 889); ASW Officer. USS DAMATO (DD 871); and Assistant Navigator, USS NORTHAMPTON {CC I). Ashore he has served in the Officer of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon as Aide and Administrative Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Surface Warfare) and as a Program Analyst in the General Planning and Programming Division (OP 90). He is designated a proven subspecialist in Financial Management. Before receiving his commission, CDR Seaquist worked as a Meteorological Technician for the U. S. Weather Bureau im successive one year assignments in the Arctic and as U. S. Representative in Argentina ' s Kllsworth Station in the Antarctic. He has also worked as a Research Assistant in Chemistry at NASA ' s Goddard Space Flight Center. CDR Seaquist wears the Meritorious Service Medal which was awarded following his duty in OP 90, and the Navy Commendation Medal, awarded after his tour as Commanding Officer, USS BEACON. I i r ■♦i ' 3.Yc , u m Tl i l SAN DIEGO DEPARTURE h S. h ' HULL ir ' . i ' i 111 V A., WEAPONS DEPARTMENT t 10 1ST DIVISION FN (lay SN Henderson ' FTG2 Dyer Miccio ' s Training pays off FTG2 Hamilton 14 TA DIVISION inins 1 jm, ' ' jj. M B IS SN Nelson AS DIVISION STGSN rhiz mn.fA .l. X 16 Old Man ol the Sea CiiniuT l.an stoii STGl Wolf and STG2 Boyden STG3 Dill, STG3 Kramer, STG3 Phillips 17 iiBminmnr: ' I DIVISION (JMtl at Wiirk 19 LTJG Clark 20 I ENGINEERING department H .. : ENGINEERING BRONSTEIN ' s Engineering Department consists of B Division, M Division, and R Division and is responsible for the ship ' s propulsion machinery, and repair services. LT Warner is the Department Head with LTJG Towne as Damage Control Assistant, and LTJG Brasel as Main Propulsion Assistant. Maintaining the ship ' s boilers and fuel systems, are the Boiler Technicians of B Division. In addition to steam for propulsion, their boilers give off heat used as a sauna for crewmembers with a price attached. The Machinist ' s Mates of M Division, through the ship ' s turbine, convert the steam energy to forward motion. The ghip ' s generators, emergency diesel, and auxiliary machinary are cared for by the men of R Division. Electricians Mates, Machinery Repairmen, Enginemen, Hull Technicians and Machinist Mates are the different ratings in R Division. DE J The Ice Man ' s Stumped HT ' s welded together 22 IG slSOl udis d iead ilion 10 used led. the raid laid iff men, latf! DEPARTMENT MMCS Nyman HTl Brown, MRl Hanson and LT Warner MQ i LT Warner, LTJG Towne. and ENS Rosner 23 LTJG Towne EMI Chester Super Shell HTFN Resenbeck i 24 L ICl Gallinger MM:? Tucker n i f EMFN Conner BTFN Thayer 26 Hell I dunna know BT3 Villarose Robbie knows Pete ' s figuring it out. 27 I I HTFN Haase, HT3 Taylor MMFN Peterson EM3 Stride, MM2 Perry bored again 28 tVM SUPPLY DEPARTMENT DKl It ' s different Chrisosotomo DK3 Masionave SHI Waldman (trust me) SUPPLY DEPARTMENT Supply Department functions are in integral part of the ship in all phases of services to the crew and ship. There are five divisions comprising the Supply Department with each division performing a particular service. Ships Service Division provides laundry, barber shop, and ship store services. On this deployment numerous foreign merchandise was orderd through the ship ' s store. The Food Services Division, feeds the crew with a well balanced meal and produce barbeque chicken on our flight deck cook-outs that would have made Colonel Sanders mouth water not to mention our hot dogs, steaks, hamburgers and potato salads. The SK ' s function aboard in ordering, receiving, accounting and storing all consumable and repair parts for the ship equipment. Disbursing handles our money accounts for our pay records, allotments, etc., sometimes claiming it ' s different. Naturally our Supply Officers try to handle any or all of these different work centers. MSI Eugino I IJt ler i-outs to Its for iccouiits ninj it ' s eanv I w- SN Perez and MS3 Mosca What is it? A ;-. ' , .___. ' i . • e-i L _ — — - . k L - -S— r- K= I r _ D r ' , ENS Sooter MSC Bones Blameuser What ' s up Jack? SHL3 Arthur OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT Operations Department is composed of six work centers; their job is a very demanding job sometimes working as many as 28 hours a day. The quarter masters plot, navigate the ship. Operation speciaHsts, although surrounded by bulkheads with no visibility except for the radar systems aboard seem to know our whereabouts. The ET ' s and EW ' s serve as our ears and repair our sensitive electronic equipment on board. The Signalmen are constantly flashing and receiving messages by light our Radiomen are below decks transmitting and receiving vital messages across the wireless oceans of the world. QM3 Kessler Mark SMC Cardoza and shipmate OSl Lenny Bowers 34 iph i. Signal Bridge SMC Cardoza 35 I A. RMS Isaac QMl Bobbitt HMl Kvcrt ' tt QM2 Huhba Lytz RM3 Chastine RM:i Waller M 1 b] f ] m , i,! s4 V- s £: yV.. ETR2 Schultz and ETN3 Wright ETN3 Wright RM3 Isaac and RM2 Thibeaoux [. a 38 i. ETC Eishenhart EW3 Berndt 39 r r i .- .y ' LTJG Davenport 40 IIIUL RMC Stormin Norman Miller OSSN Sullivan ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT The Administration Department on board handles all of the necessary and at times unnecessary paper work. There are five ratings in our Admin Department. Our one and only Corpsman bandaged, needled and listened to all our mental and physical problems. Our Chief Master-at-Arms insured Navy Regulations were abided by (as many as possible). The PN ' s and YN ' s typed their fingers to the bone keeping up with the ever constant flowing and endless paper work in our service records. The PC takes care of all our mail which was the biggest morale booster on board and had personally licked over 40,000 stamps to ensure our mail was legal for shipment. -t PN2 Flanagan MAAl King and GMGl Baggett Havin a good time Doc and Bacon f i ' v i B ' j _ M ' A 42 i: UNDERWAY re: REPLENISHMENT TAIWAN b 50 AN Where surflng Is king. mwfi ii USS ARIZONA MemoriaL t |.J WESTPAC RE 52 HHB c RECREATION 53 KOREA A land of many contrasts. THE PHILIPPINES •Of terraced mountain rice paddles. .and a small child ' s poverty. RUSSIAN OPERATIONS I fl 56 KRESTA CLASS CRUISER 57 ' ' WELCOME HOME USS BRONSTEIN I 58 yi u BRONSTEIN ' S WESTPAC 1978 SCHEDULE Departure San Diego, CA 4 Apr 78 Arrived Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 17 Apr 78 Arrived Subic Bay, R.P. 17 May 78 Soap 78 1-24 June 78 Arrived Pusan, Korea 25 June 78 Arrived Yokosuka, Japan 30 June 78 Arrived Kure, Japan 21 July 78 Local Operations, Japan 22-27 July 78 Arrived Chinae, Korea 10 Aug 78 Operation Comtuex 78 14 Aug 78 Arrived Keelung, Taiwan 22 Aug 78 Arrived Kaoishung, Taiwan 1 Sept 78 Operation Shark Hunt 78 4-7 Sept 78 Arrived Subic Bay. R.P. 10 Sept 78 Local Operations 21-22 Sept 78 Arrived Subic Bay, R.P. 22 Sept 78 Ship ' s Party 25 Sept 78 Departed Subic Bay for Operation Readiex 78 20 Oct 78 Finished Operation Readiex 78 Departed for Gaum 8 Oct 78 Arrived Guam 11 Oct 78 Departed Guam for Pearl Harbor 15 Oct 78 Arrived Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 23 Oct 78 Arrival San Diego, CA 29 Oct 78 WESTPAC AWARDS AWARDS WON Golden Anchor Silver Anchor Commodores Cup Battle Ktfiency E ( tth) Communication C Operations K (4th) Damaf e Control DC Engineering E (4th) 61 WELCOME HOME USS BRONSTEIN JKJJi- ' - • ' „ j jr 1. .w - ?- ■i -A- ' ■' -;r .•■.  ' . -♦•: . ' M-i- — w= 5 . f •trtr-i -! . ' fef ' -tl, --s, The Pearl of the Orient , as seen from atop Victoria Peal«. It rains a lot in Hong Kong. Directing traffic, an everyday job for Hong Kong Police.  if ai II HONO Mm ¥ :..- % - EDITORS QMl BOBBITT GMGl BAGGETT ■--- j9tV r ' • 1 1 . is ORBIS TERR: ' M z. DE.sCRIPTIO DUOB SJL: )M 5 PLAN 15 HEMISPH RIIS COMP RFKESA ai « Cl I
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