Frank Evans (DD 754) - Naval Cruise Book

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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

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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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I ' Z ■ »■ .-«■? LTJG G. A. CHAUNCEY and Chief Radioman M. D. SHAW represented in OC Division. Doc WILSON, HM1, ran a taut sick bay dur- ing the cruise. He was most popular when doling out shots of brandy to per- sonnel who had gotten wet and cold dur- ing an underway replenishment. This is similar to being a bartender when some- one cries drinks for the house on me. Then there was the ship ' s office. PURTZER, PN1, andSITNIC, PN2, handled service records, transfers, and swaps smoothly and efficiently. The Yeoman were OSTRANDER, YN3, and DELL, YN3. They typed volumes of letters, reports, plans-of-the-day, and kept the filing system. They were very valuable. No one could find anything in the office without them. OC Division personnel also do the ship ' s navigating. DAWSON, QM1 led a good group of quartermasters. WRIGHT, QM3, HUBER, QMSN, and RAGIEL, SN, completed his team. When not standing watches on the bridge or correcting charts (DAWSON prefers to call them maps) the quartermasters could be found reading Playboy in the chart room. The final two ratings in OC Division are responsible for the ship ' s external communications. These are the radio- men and signalmen. During the cruise Chief M. D. SHAW headed the RM ' s. He, along with FISHER, RM1, WOOD, RM2, MAC ARTHUR, RM3 - the list is too long to finish - typed incoming and outgoing messages, routed them and listened to the radios in Radio Central. From them we got the news at sea; but perhaps their most notable contribution was picking up the Army-Navy game so The Radiomen are: Top Row, Left to Right: GILBERTSON, G.D., RMSN; WOOD, R.J., RM2; HOLM, N., RM2 ; and MC ARTHUR, D.H., RM3; Middle Row: FISHER, J.K., RM1; HAYENGA, D.L., RMSN; SILVA, J.B., RMSN; and PORINCHAK, J., RM2; Bottom Row: SMITH, J. A. , RM3; PATTERSON, H.W., SN; and LEG ER, R.N., RM3. 12 The Signalmen, left to right are: JOHNSON, P.J., SM2; WHITNEY, G.H., SM3; DUNCAN, CD., SN; MOSCOSO, T.T., SM3; and NICHOLS, C.A., SN.