Denver (LPD 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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tl ' . » t H ' V; r . i . JTf ■ 111 ! I ■I I BacA Row left to right: ASAPi Tomlinson, ABF3 Ward, AM Curl, AA Gieger, ABH3 Sheldon, ABH3 Reaves Front Row left to right: ABF2 Stroud, ASl Paton, ABFJ Wright, AA Pietro, AH Styer, Ah Carter, An Martucci, ABF3 Set erson, Lt Griese Throughout the Desert Shield and Desert Storm conflicts the USS DENVER ' S Air Department was an example of a Total Team Effort on a daily basis. This team ' s players were made up of aviation boatswain handlers (ABM ' s), aviation boatswain fuelers (ABF ' s) and aviation support equipment technicians (AS ' s). In their position the handlers would direct the aircraft into the deck and move them about, the fuelers gave the aircraft good clean gas and the AS ' s operated and repaired all the support equipment required to move, start and conduct maintenance on our embarked cobra helicopters and any transient birds that needed a hand. Over the nine month deployment the air department could proudly boast no injuries or accidents, pumped over 13 ' 7,644 gallons of jet fuel and 3,000 gallons of mogas as well as over 3,000 deck evolutions which included touch and go ' s vertical replenishments and ordnance runs in support of our ground troops in Kuwait. Denver does is never more evident than when the air department does it.