Frank Evans (DD 754) - Naval Cruise Book

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OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT The Operations Officer, LT W. L. BRENNEN The Operations Officer, LT W. L. BRENNEN, heads a large, complex organization. The department consists of two divisions. Their personnel navigate the ship, care for her sick, handle her correspondence, send and receive all of her external communica- tions, operate her radars and maintain most of her electronic equipment. If it is not the largest department on this ship, it is certainly the most senior. With no less than 6 officers until LT (jg) D. I. O ' NEILL left in February, it had only two fewer officers than the rest of the departments combined. Added to The ET ' s, Top Row from Left to Right: LANDIN, D. W., ETNSN; ORTIZ, L. , ETR3; MILLER, R.M., ETNSNj and LUND, R.A., ETN3 . Bottom Row, Left to Right: KLIMKIEWICZ, J.W., ETRSN; GAUGL, E.P., SN; ROSCHKE, R.A., ETRSN; and PORTER, A.C., ETR2 these were two chief petty officers and seven first class petty officers. All this for only two divisions gives an idea of the importance of the job of the Opera- tions Department. OC Division looks at quarters like the Bureau of Missing Persons. LT (jg) G. A. CHAUNCEY, the Communications Officer, was also OC Division Officer during the cruise. He was assisted in various phases of his division ' s work by ENS S. A. BARCLAY who ran the Ship ' s Office and headed the navigation team. There are six different ratings

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OFFICERS LCDR C. H. LOHR, USN LCDR C. H. LOHR relieved as Executive Officer at the end of January. He came to the EVANS from the Staff of COMDES- RON 23 where he had been the Staff Material Officer. In 1953 LCDR LOHR was commissioned Ensign through the Regular NROTC program at Miami University of Ohio. His first assignment took him to the USS BORDELON (DDR 887) for duty as Damage Control Assistant. From there he went to Auburn University in Alabama as an NROTC Instructor. He taught Navigation and Engineering for two years, completing his tour in 1957. His interest in naval intelligence prompted him to seek it as a sub- specialty. First he attended the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California where he studied naval intelli- gence for two years. His next stop was Washington, D.C. . Here he served in the Counterintelligence Branch of the Office of Naval Intelligence before going to the Staff of COMDESRON 23. He also served as the Executive Officer of the USS ACME (MSO 508) from 1957 to 1959. It was there that he had a real chance to use the navigation he had taught at Auburn and to ac- quire the skill at which the EVANS ' quartermasters never cease to marvel. LCDR LOHR, his wife Jackie, and their three children re- side in Long Beach.

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Above are the radarmen from left to right. Front Row: HOWARD, W.H., RDSN; BOOMGAARDEN, D.E., RD1; H»DGS®N, G.B., RD1; and DOVER, F. W., RD2. Middle Row: PETRIK, J.J. , RDSN; DILLARD, D.G., RD3; MARLETT, G.C., RDSN; GALILEY, G.R., RD2; BOOHER, J. A., RDSN. Top Row: JONES, M.E. RD2; CAYA, G.E., RD3; COFFEY, J.D., SN; PAYNE, H.F., RD3; ANTHONY, T.D., RDSN; and CHILD, R.A., RD3 . He ' s not here; may I take a message? At the right: ENS M. H. WEST, Chief Radarmen CO. HOLSOMBACK and LTJG T. L. JOHNSON. How do you spell nots ? This set has a lousy picture 11