Fort Mandan (LSD 21) - Naval Cruise Book

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The chiefs had more work to do than this indicates. We just happened to catch them together in their mess. iMP piF ' CT It ' s getting about time to knock off ship ' s work, so let ' s get that Mike boat cleaned up before liberty call. It ' s another bull session on the port boat deck. But why is everybody looking up here? I Hughes in the ice room Emergency generator room.

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It took those rating results long enough to arrive, but we finally got promoted, with the captain ' s congratulations. The captain gives a few last minute instructions to the Exec before departing the ship in a liberty port Steering course 270, checking 281, Sir. We gave the helmsmen a good workout during the course of the cruise. Naval Beach Group personnel at quarters for entering port, anxiously awaiting the signal to secure. 57 Well, it ' s liberty call again, and from the looks of this boat load, none of us wanted to miss out.

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1 Who ' s this we ' re alongside today? And is it for replenishing, or for another of those water-boy operations ? Capt. Bass got a chance to ship over a few of us before he was relieved early in the cruise. The well deck was full of LCU ' s and the LCU ' s were full of all sorts of Marine and Beach Group oddities. I ' ll play this thing yet! Mr. Dawson, Mr. Kiefer. 59 Get it right, Bushy.