Cleveland (LPD 7 CL 55) - Naval Cruise Book

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TOP LEFT: BM3 Bob Newell with a letter from home. ABOVE: BMSN Marty Weller and BM2 Bill Vaudt, after sending a boot camp to fetch some ' water line. ' LEFT: LT Morgan and crew on the boat deck.

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Deck at work! RIGHT: BM2 George Susan guides in a landing craft during well deck operations. BELOW LEFT: BM1 Ossie Love runs boat ops on tlie Boat Deck. BELOW RIGHT: SA Ray Breton and SA Steve Sabatino at the helm lee helm.

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RIGHT: Boat Deck Ops. BELOW: Painting the side. BELOW RIGHT: Mount 31, forward, manned by the Gunner ' s Mates of Third Division. Deck Dept. Deck Department does all the things that sailors are famous for (Handling lines, tying fancy knots, riding the boats, etc), and most of the things that sailors are nfamous for (but those things aren ' t shown here). Since CLEVELAND ' S main mission is amphibious assault. Deck Department is always busy whenever there ' s a major operation going on. UNREP is also in their schedule, and Third Division, the Gunner ' s Mates, are not to be forgotten either. Between all these jobs, however, there ' s still the job of keeping the ship looking good, which Deck does with style. If anybody gets a tan while riding the seas these days, it ' s Deck! 20