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FUNKE SERVED AS DAMAGE CONTROL ASSISTANT AND MAIN PROPULSION ASSISTANT OF USS CHARLES F. ADAMS CDDG-22. AFTER GRADUATION FROM THE S WOSCOLCOM DEPARTMENT HEAD COURSE HE SERVED AS CHIEF ENGINEER OF USS MITSCHER KDDG-352 FROM AUGUST I975 TO FEBRUARY I978 AND THEN AS CHIEF ENGINEER OF USS GUAM CLPH-92 UNTIL NOV. I979. CDR FUNKE WAS ASSIGNED TO THE FACULITY OF THE . UNITED STA TES NA VAL ACADEMY MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT FROM JANUARY I98O TO MA Y I982. HE THEN SERVED AS EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF USS MILLER CFF-IO9Ij FROM SEPTEMBER I982 TO FEBRUARY I984 AND AS A PROJECT OFFICER A T THE U.S. NA VAL WAR COLLEGE, WAR GAMING DEPARTMEN71 NE WPOR71 R.I. UNTIL OCTOBER I986. HIS LAST ASSIGNMENT PRIOR TO ASSUMING COMMAND OF USS JOHN K - ING CDDG 32 IN DECEMBER I987 WAS AS EXERCISES OFFICER FOR COMMANDER, SECOND FLEET. CDR. FUNKE 'S PERSONAL A WARDS INCLUDE THE MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, JOINT SERVICES COMMENDA TION MEDAL, NA VY COMMENDA TION MEDAL AND THE NA VY ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL. HE IS MARRIED TO THE FORMER SANDY BURGESS ALSO OF ELLIO TT CITY, MARYLAND. THEY HA VE A DAUGHTER CAROLINE CD AND LIVES IN VIRGINIA BEA CH, VIRGINIA. .,,..,-.- T. A.rx-..TT.m,-ffm:-5.-m,1un,,nn-N--www-f-H H' f-'- ,. , Il L EXECUTIVE OFFICER LCDR. RUSSELL P. TJEPKENA LCDR. RUESSEL P. TJEPKENA IS A NATIVE OF BROOKL YN, NEW YORK. HE ATTENDED MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY AND WAS COMMISSIONED MA Y l976. FROM JANUARY l977 TO JANUARY l98l LCDR. TJEPKEMA SERVED AS MAIN PROPULSION ASSISTANT AND CHIEF ENGINEER OF USS MOUNT WHITNEY CL CC-202. AFTER DEPARTMENT HEAD SCHOOL, HE SERVED AS CHIEF ENGINEER OF USS MILLER IFF-l09lj. LCDR. TJKEPEMA WAS ASSIGNED TO COMNA VSURGRUFOUR FROM MARCH l983 TO SEP- TEMBER I985. HIS LAST ASSIGNMENT BEFORE REPORTING TO THE JOHN KING WAS ON THE CINCLAN TFL T PEB WHERE HE SERVED FROM SEPTEMBER I985 TO APRIL l988. LCDR. TJEPKEMA 'S PERSONAL A WARDS INCLUDE THE MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, AND NAVY COMMENDA TION MEDAL. HE AND HIS WIFE NANCY AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN JENNIFER ISL MEGHAN C6j, AND RUS TY C42, RESIDE IN VA. BEACH. ,-.........,.. ..1,.f ... -nf ' -..f , , V ,. -J ,,, , ,,,, , - ' , 1 V V . , - - - A -' H -- - JOHN KING CHIEF WA TER TENDER U.S, NA VY RETIRED, DECEA SED JOHN KING WAS BORN IN IRELAND FEBRUARY 7, I865. HE ENLIS TED IN THE NA VY JUL Y 242 I893 AS A COAL PASSER ON BOARD THE USS VERMON71 ON SEPTEMBER 30 HIS RA TING CHANGED TO FIREMAM SECOND CLASS. THAN TO FIREMAN FIRST CLASS ON MARCH 3I, I895. JOHN KING WAS PROMO TED TO CHIEF WA TER TENDER ON I OCTOBER I909. HE WAS HONORABLE DISCHARGED AND RE-ENLIS TED IN THE NA VY SIX TIMES DURING HIS PERIOD OF UNBROKEN SERVICE. DURING THE PERIOD OF I893 TO IQCD HE SERVED ON BOARD THE USS VERMONI USS YORK, USS MASSACHUSETTS. FROM IEXD TO I903 JOHN KING WAS ASSIGNED TO THE USS DE TROI71 USS VERMON71 USS INDIA NS, AND USS VICKSBURG, JANUARY I903 HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE USS PISCA TA OUIA. LA TER THAT YEAR HE SERVED ON THE USS RAINBOW, USS SOLA CE AND USS HANCOCK, DURING HIS NEXT ENLISTMENT H904-I908j JOHN KING WAS ASSIGNED CONSECUTIVEL Y TO THE USS DES MOINES USS FRANKLIN, USS VIRGINIA. HE ALSO SERVED WITH THE RESERVE TORPEDO FLOTILLA. UPON RE-ENLISTING A T THE NA VAL RECRUITING STA TION N Y. IN JUL Y I908. HE WAS AGAIN ASSIGNED TO THE USS HANCOCK AND DURING THE FOUR YEARS TO FOLLOW HAD SERVICE ON BOARD THE USS WABASH AND USS SALEM, DECEMBER I9l2. JOHN KING RELIS TED AND TRANSFERRED TO THE USS FLORIDA WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 24, I9I6. ON DECEMBER 26, I9I6 HE TRANSFERRED TO THE FLEET NA VAL RESERVE FROM ACTIVE DUTK TWO DA YS AFTER THE UNITED STA TES ENTERED WORLD WAR I ON APRIL 6, I9lZ KING WAS RECALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY AND WAS ASSIGNED TO THE RECEIVING SHIP AT NEW YORK. ON OCTOBER Il, I9I7 HE TRANSFERRED TO THE NA VAL HOSPITAL NEW YORK FOR TREATMENT. HE WAS RELEASED FOR FURTHER DUTY ON AUGUST 2Q I9l9 AND REPORTED TO RECEIVING STATION NEW YORK. ON NOVEMBER 3, I923 JOHN KING WAS RELEASED FROM ACTIVE DUTY AND TRANSFERRED TO THE RETIRED LIST OF THE U.S. NA VY. JOHN KING DIES ON MA Y 23, I938. KING WAS TWICE A WARDED THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR. THE FIRST TIME, '7-'OR EXTRA ORDINAR Y HEROISM IN THE LINE OF HIS PROFESSION A T THE TIME OF ACCIDENT TO THE BOILERS OF THE USS VICKSBURG ON 29 MA Y I90l, THE CI TA TION TO THE SECOND MEDAL HONOR A WARDED B Y G. O. 4QI9 OCTOBER I909, FOLLOWS 'QIOHN KING, WA TER TENDER, SERVING ON BOARD THE USS SALEM, FOR EXTRA ORDINARY HEROISM IN THE LINE OF HIS PROFESSION ON THE OCCASION OF THE ACCIDENT TO ONE OF THE BOILERS OF THAT VESSEL, I3 SEPTEMBER I909. USS JOHN KING CDDG-3 UNITED STATES SHIP HISTORY THE FIRST SHIP TO BEAR THE NAME JOHN KING AND THE SECOND OF THE GUIDED MISSLE DES TRO YERS TO BE CONS TRUC TED BY THE BA TH IRON WORKS IN BA TH, MAINE. JOHN KING WAS CHRIS TENED ON 30 JANUARY l96O BY MRS PAUL J. KILDA Y- WIFE OF A U.S. REPRESENTATIVE FROM TEXAS. SHE WAS OUTFITTED AT THE BOSTON NA VAL SHIPYARD. U.S.S. JOHN KING WAS COMMISSIONED ON 4 FEBRUARY I96I AT THE BOSTON NA VAL SHIPYARD, UNDER THE COMMAND OF COMMANDER ALBERT M. SACKE TT, OUTFITTING WAS COMPLETED ON 4 APRIL I96I. EFFECTIVE 30 JUNE I96I, THE HOMEPORT OF JOHN KING BECAME NORFOLK. JOHN KING DEPARTED NORFOLK VIRGINIA ON 27 NOVEMBER I96I FOR A SHAKEDO WN CRUISE AND VISITED PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND, AMSTERDAM, THE NE THERLANDS, BERGEN, NOR WA Y, FLENSBURG, GERMAN Y, AND DUBLIN, IRELAND DURING THE PERIOD OF 27 NOVEMBER I96I TO I JANUARY I962. ON I JANUARY I962 JOHN KING LEFT DUBLIN, IRELAND AND S TEAMED TO THE MEDITERRANEAN WHERE SHE JOINED THE SIXTH FLEET. PORTS OF CALL IN THE MEDITERRANEAN INCLUDED ROTA, SPAIM THEOULE, GOLFE JUAN, AND CANNES FRANCE, LA SPEZIE ITAL Y. PALERMO, SICIL Y. THE SHIP RETURNED TO NORFOLK IN APRIL. FROM I0 JUL Y TO I4 JUL Y, JOHN KING WAS IN WASHINGTON D.C. HOSTING VARIOUS CONGRESSMAN AND SENA TORS AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND APPROPRIA TION COMMITTEES, AMONG THEM THE HONORABLE MR. ROBERT MCNAMARA, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AND THE HONORABLE MR. FRED KORTH, SECRETARY OF THE NA VY AUGUST 8, I962 COMMANDER C.H. CRANDALL JR. RELIEVED COMMANDER SACKETT AS COMMANDING OFFICER. UNDER COMMANDER CRANDALL 'S COMMAND JOHN KING PARTICIPA TED IN THE CUBAN BLOCKADE OPERATIONS BEING AMONG THE FIRST UNITS TO RESPOND TO THE CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS. JOHN KING DEPARTED FOR HER SECOND MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE ON 6 FEBRUARY I963. JOHN KING WAS RELIEVED OF HER SIXTH FLEET DUTIES ON I4 JUNE AND S TEAMED NORTHWARD ARRIVING IN KIEL, GERMANY ON 23 JUNE FOR THE KIEL WEEK FESTIVITIES. CONTINUING NORTHWARD, JOHN KING VISITED NAR VIK, NORWA Y. AFTER LEA VING NAR VIK SHE SAILED HOME ARRIVING ON JUL Y I7, I963. JOHN KING'S THIRD COMMANDING OFFICER WAS COMMANDER THOMAS J. HUGHES RELIEVING COMMANDER CRANDALL ON I4 FEBRUARY I964. THE FIRST PART OF I964 JOHN KING CONDUC TED INDEPENDENT SHIP EXERCISE AND TRAINING DRILLS. ON 4 APRIL SHE BECAME THE FIRST UNITED STA TES SHIP TO VISIT THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC IN EIGHTEEN MONTHS BY VISITING SANTA DOMINGO. 3 AUGUST JOHN KING DEPAR TED NORFOLK FOR HER THIRD MEDITERRANEAN DEPLOYMEN71 SHE JOINED THE SIXTH FLEET ON I6 AUGUST WHERE SHE REMAINED AL TERNA TING BETWEEN AT-SEA AND INPORT PERIODS. JOHN KING SPENT THE CHRISTMAS OF 64 IN LA SPEZIE, ITAL Y AND NEW YEARS IN CANNES FRANCE. 4 JANUARY I965 FOUND JOHN KING UNDERWAY AGAIN FROM CANNES, ENROUTE TO VALENCIA, SPAIN FOR TURNOVER ON I8 JANUARY JOHN KING RETURNED TO NORFOLK 29 JANUARY ARRIVING A DA Y LA TE DUE TO HEA VY SEAS. ON IO SEPTEMBER I965 COMMANDER DEMING W. SMITH RELIEVED COMMANDER HUGHES AS COMMANDING OFFICER. JOHN KING'S FOURTH MEDITERRANEAN DEPLOYMENT STARTED ON 4 OCTOBER. DURING THIS DEPLOYMENT PORTS OF CALL WERE LIVERNO. NAPLES, AND TARANTO, ITAL Yi BARCEL ONA, AND PALMA SPAIN, VALE TTA, MAL TA, ATHENS, GREECE, AND BIZERTE, TUNISIA. ON 25 FEBRUARY I966 JOHN KING LEFT THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA, CROSSED THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND ARRIVED IN NORFOLK ON 7 MARCH. DURING THE SUMMER OF I966 JOHN KING COMPLETED CRUISES TO THE CARIBBEAN AND THE NORTH ATLANTIC WHICH INCLUDED A SECOND VISIT TO KIEL, GERMANY. AFTER A THREE WEEK CRUISE IN EARL Y DECEMBER I966, JOHN KING ENJO YED HER FIRST CHRISTMAS IN NORFOLK IN THREE YEARS. JOHN KINGS FIFTH MEDITERRANEAN DEPLOYMENT BEGAN ON I0 JANUARY I96 7. SHE OPERA TED IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN FOR FOUR MONTHS WHERE SHE CONDUC TED OPERATIONS WITH BRITISH, ITALIAN, AND FRENCH NA VAL FORCES. JOHN KING RETURNED TO NORFOLK ON I9 MA Y. DURING THE MEDITERRANEAN DEPLOYMENT JOHN KING S TEAMED I9,6I7 MILES, BURNED l. 7 MILLION GALLONS OF FUEL OIL. DRANK l93,430 CUPS OF COFFEE AND 7592 GALLONS OF MILK, BOUGHT 46,5I4 SOFTDRINKS, AND SPENT S55,CXX7 ON FOOD. COMMANDER SMITH WAS RELIEVED BY COMMANDER WAL TER T. K OSMELA ON 26 MA Y l96 7 WITH COMMANDER K OSMELA AT THE HELM, JOHN KING ENTERED THE NORFOLK NA VAL SHIPYARD FOR HER SECOND REGULAR OVERHAUL SINCE COMMISSIONING. DURING THE OVERHAUL JOHN KING RECEIVED EX TENSIVE WORK INCLUDING NEW CAPABILITIES FOR ASROC MISSILE REL OAD, ELEC TRONICCOUNTERMEASURES, COMMUNICATIONS AND THE STANDARD MISSILE SYSTEMS. IN ALL OVER THREE MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF WORK. ON I8 JANUARY 1968 JOHN KING DEPARTED NORFOLK NA VAL SHIP YARD. ON 28 MA Y AFTER AN EMERGENCY RECALL JOHN KING DEPARTED TO SEARCH FOR THE USS SCORPION CSNN-5891 OVERDUE WHOSE LAST KNO WN POSITION WAS JUST NOR TH OF THE AZORE5 ISLA NDS. AFTER AN UNEVENTUAL JOURNEY, JOHN KING RETURNED TO ITS HOME POR T. NOVEMBER 4th 1968 FOUND JOHN KING UNDER WA Y IN COMPANY WITH USS RICHARD E. BYRD CDDG-232 AND USS CONNYNGAM IDDG-179 FOR THE SIX TH MEDITERRAN DEPLOYMENT WHERE SHE RELIEVED U.S.S. SEMMES IDDG-I8Q. JOHN KING JOINED THE SIX FLEET ON I5 NOVEMBER A T RO TA, SPAIN FOR OPERA TIONS IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRA N. DECEMBER 23 JOHN KING ANCHORED A T BEA ULIEU, FRANCE FOR THE HOLIDA Y SEASON. ON 4 FEBRUARY 1969 COMMANDER OSCAR C. CHISUM, RELIEVED COMMANDER KOSMELA. WHILE IN THE MEDITERRA NEAN THE JOHN KING PARTICIPA TED IN VARIOUS OPERA TIONS SUCH A5 NA TIONAL WEEK ll, DA WN PA TROL 69. ON I5 MA Y JOHN KING LEFT THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ARRIVED IN NORFOLK, ON 27 MA Y. THE REMAINER OF 1969 JOHN KING PERFORMED VARIOUS DUTIES. ONE OF THE MORE NO TABLE IS ON 5 NOVEMBER WITH JOHN KING ACTING A5 OPERA TIONAL EVA ULA TION PLA TFORM FOR THE STANDARD MISSILE, SUCCESSFULL Y FIRING I8 MISSILES. JOHN KING GOT UNDER WA Y ON 5 MARCH 1970 FOR HER SEVENTH MEDITERRANEAN DEPLOYMEN71 COMDESRON 32 SHIFTED HIS FLAG TO JOHN KING FOR THE DEPLOYMENF DURING THE DEPLOYMENT SHE CONDUCTED OPERA TIONS IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA WHICH CONSISTED OF CARRIER TASK GROUP OPERA TION5. IN AN AT SEA CEREMONY ON 25 AUGUST I9 70 COMMANDER J.K. STORMS III RELIEVED COMMANDER O.C. CHISUM A5 COMMA NDING OFFICER. ON I6 SEPT JOHN KING RETURNED TO NORFOLK FROM HER SEVENTH DEPLOYMENT, COMDESRON 32 SHIFTED HIS FLAG FROM THE SHIP. JOHN KING ENTERED THE NORFOLK NA VAL SHIP YARD ON 8 JANUARY I9 7l FOR HER REGULAR OVERHA UL DURING THIS SIX MONTH OVERHA UL THE WEAPONS SYSTEMS RECEIVED THE TARTAR DIGITAL UPDA TE AND THE ENGINEERING PLANT WAS CONVER TED TO RECEIVE NA VY DISTILLA TE FUEL. THE EIGHTH MEDITERRENEAN DEPLOYMENT FOR JOHN KING CAME ON 23 SEPTEMBER. IT FOUND HER BEING TASKED WITH ESCORT DUTY TO THE USS SARA TOGA AND USS INDEPENDENCE. THE SHIP ALSO PAR TICIPA TED IN NA TIONAL WEEK XI, OPERA TIONS QUICKDRA W WITH ITALIAN NA VAL FORCES AND HELD SURFACE GUNNERY EXERCISES. ON 3l JANUARY l972 THE SHIP WAS HONORED BY A VISIT FROM ADMIRAL ZUM WAL T, CHIEF OF NA VAL OPERA TION5. ON 30 MARCH 1972 JOHN KING RETURNED TO NORFOLK AND BEGAN A STA NDO WN PERIOD WITH A CHANGE OF COMMAND ON 31 MARCH WHEN COMMANDER EUGENE A. SPADONI RELIEVED COMMANDER STORMS AS COMMA NDING OFFICER. 7 SEPTEMBER JOHN KING GOT UNDER WA Y TO PARTICIPA TE IN EXERCISE STRONG EXPRESS IN THE NORTHERN A TLANTIC. HER ROLE IN THE EXERCISE WAS TO ESCORT A CONVOY OF MERCHANTS FROM LIBSON. PORTUGAL TO PL YMOUTH, ENGLAND. UPON COMPLETION OF THE EXERCISE SHE PULLED INTO RO TTERDAM, HOLLAND AND THAN ON TO KRISTIA NSA ND, NOR WA Y. THE SHIP ARRIVED BA CK TO DESTRO YER AND SUBMARINES PIER ON I6 OCTOBER. ON 1 DECEMBER 1972 JOHN KING DEPAR TED FOR HER FIRST WESPAC PASSING THROUGH THE PANAMA CA NAL ON 8 DECEMBER. AFTER A THREE DA Y PORT VISIT TO MA NZANILLO, MEXICO, JOHN KING GOT UNDER WA Y ENROUTE TO PEARL HARBOR, HA WAII. JOHN KING SPENT CHRISTMAS ON PEARL HARBOR, HA WAII ARRIVING ON 23 DECEMBER AND DEPARTING 26 DECEMBER FOR SUBIC BA Y, PHILLIPINE ISLANDS. AFTER A BRIEF STOP FOR FUEL A T GUAM, THE SHIP ARRIVED IN SUBIC BA Y ON 7 JANUARY 1973. ON I5 JA NUARY l973. JOHN KING COMMENCED ITS FIRST TOUR OF COMBA T DUTY. WITHIN MINUTES OF ARRIVING A T THE GUNLINE A T POINT ALLISON EARL Y ON I5 JANUARY, JOHN KING RECEIVED ITS FIRST NA VAL GUNFIRE SUPPORT CNGFSQ MISSION. TWENTY-NINE MISSIONS WERE FIRED BETWEEN I5 AND I8 JANUARY. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENT OCCURRED IN THE EARL Y MORNING HOURS OF I8 JANUARY WHEN THE RVN I47TH BRIGADE WAS A TTA CKED BY SEVEN BA TTALION SIZE ENEMY TROOP CONCENTRA TIONS SUPPOR TED BY SEVEN TANKS. OVER SEVERAL HOURS, JOHN KING ASSISTED IN TURNING BA CK FOUR ASSA UL T5 AND BL UNTING THE OVERALL A TTA CK. DURING THIS ACTION THE SHIP RECEIVED HOSTILE FIRE FROM ENEMY SHORE BA TTERIES. FOLLOWING THIS ACTION, COMDESRON I5 STA TED IN A MESSAGE TO JOHN KING, YOUR RAPID RESPONSE TO THIS EMERGENCY AND OUTSTANDING SHOOTING ARE NO TED WITH PLEASURE. WELL DONE. I I -F-6 Y . Yrr, ,..-. .,.. ,....., .,.. ,l,,.,.., ,,,,,,,mV . JOHN KING WAS DETACHED FROM NGFS UNITS AT POINT ALLISON AND ON I9 JANUARY WAS SENT TO POINT JOEY. ARRIVING 20 JANUARY. TWO CALLS FOR FIRE MISSIONS WERE FIRED IN SUPPORT OF RVN TROOPS ASHORE. IMMEDIA TEL Y FOLLOWING ORDERED FURTHER SOUTH TO POINT SASHA IN THE VICINITY OF PHAN THIET, ABOUT 90 MILES EAST OF SAIGON, AND OPERA TED IN THAT AREA FROM 2I JANUARY UNTIL AFTER THE CEASE-FIRE ON 28 JANUARY. DURING THIS PERIOD, JOHN KING FIRED 37 MISSIONS IN SUPPORT OF RVN UNITS AT A TIME WHEN THE CITY WAS RECEIVING HEAVY PRESSURE FROM LARGE ENEMY CONCENTRA TIONS IN THE SURROUNDING HILLS. TWO DA YS PRIOR TO THE CEASE-FIRE, THE SENIOR U.S. MILITARY ADVISOR, A U.S. ARMY COLONEL, AND HIS COUNTERPART, THE PROVINCE CHIEF CAN ARVN COLONEL j, CALLED BY VOICE RADIO TO EXPRESS GRA TITUDE FOR THE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY JOHN KING TO DEFENDING PHAN THIEF FROM LARGE SCALE ENEMY ATTACKS DURING THE PREVIOUS FEW DA YS. THESE TWO OFFICERS CREDITED THE SHIP WITH SUCCESSFULL Y DEF YING THE ENEMY THEREB Y MAKING NEUTRALIZA TION B Y FRIENDL Y FORCES POSSIBLE. THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT OF 27 JANUARY, AND MORNING OF 28 JANUARY JOHN KING FIRED MORE THAN 4617 ROUNDS AS ENEMY TROOPS MADE FINAL ATTEMPTS 'TO OCCUPY TERRITORY AROUND PHAN THIET. THE LAST ROUND WAS FIRED TEN MINUTES BEFORE THE CEASE-FIRE TOOK EFFEC71 FOLLOWING THE CEASE-FIRE, THE PROVINCE CHIEF ONCE AGAIN CAME ON THE RADIO TO EXPRESS GRA TITUDE FOR SUPPORT PROVIDED BY JOHN KING IN THE CLOSING HOURS OF THE WAR. FOLLOWING THE CEASE-FIRE, JOHN KING PA TROLLED OFF-SHORE PHAN THIET 28-30 JANUARY AND DEPARTED FOR SUBIC BA Y ON 30 JANUARY. AFTER A ONE DAY ANCHORAGE IN SUBIC BA Y, TO OFFLOAD LONG RANGE BOMBARDMENT AMMUNITION, THE SHIP PROCEEDED TO SASEBO FOR AN UPKEEP PERIOD. THE UPKEEP PERIOD WAS FOLLOWED BY A PORT VISIT TO KEELUNG. ON 28 FEBRUARY, JOHN KING WAS AGAIN IN THE GULF OF TONKIN, IN THE VICINITY OF HAIPHONG AS CTU 78.06 C COMMANDER MINE COUNTERMEASURES SURVEILLANCE UNIT2. THIS TASK UNIT PROVIDES SURFACE SUR VEILLANCE OF THE MCM AREA, PERFORMING NOTIFICATION DUTIES IN CONNECTION WITH MERCHANT SHIPS APPROA CHING HAIPHONG, AND WAS PREPARED TO PROVIDE MUTUAL SUPPORT TO THE MCM TASK FORCE IN THE MR' R M EVFI-,IIS UNTIL 7 MARCH WHEN JOHN KING HEARDED FOR HONG KONG. JOHN KING ARRIVED IN HONG KONG ON 9 MARCH AND DEPARTED ON I5 MARCH FOR SUBIC BA Y, R.P. FOR ANOTHER UPKEEP PERIOD. THE PERIOD 8 MAY THROUGH I3 MAY FOUND JOHN KING IN THE GULF OF TONKIN, FOLLOWED BY A PORT VISIT IN YOKOSUKA, JAPAN FROM I9 THROUGH 2I MAY. THE SHIP TRANISTED EAST TO PEARL HARBOR ON THE 28TH AND 29TH OF MAY, THROUGH THE PANAMA CANAL ON THE NIGHT OF 9 JUNE, AND HOME TO NORFOLK, RETURNING ON THE I4TH OF JUNE FOR A LONG AWAITED STAND DOWN. ON 24 AUGUST I973 COMMANDER E.A. SPADONI WAS RELIEVED OF COMMAND BY COMMANDER R.C. WILEY AS COMMANDING OFFICER. UNDER COMMANDER WILEY'S COMMAND JOHN KING UNDER WENT A OVERHAUL TO HER 2A BOILER AFTER SUFFERING A FLARE-BACK ON 8 MAY I974 WHILE CONDUCTING ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE EXERCISES WITH THE USS CA VALLA. DURING THE OVERHAUL PERIOD U7 MAY - I3 AUGUSTQ THE SHIP ALSO CONDUC TED MUCH NEEDED OVERHAUL AND MAINTENANCE ON THE ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT IN ADDITION TO AN EX TENSIVE 'FACE-LIFTING CONDUC TED BY SHIP'S FORCE. JOHN KING LEFT NORFOLK NA VAL SHIPYARD ON I3 AUGUST AND SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED SEA TRIALS ON 2A BOILER. THE SHIP RETURNED TO NORFOLK ON 23 AUGUST. AFTER A QUICK WEEK OF INPORT PREPARA TIONS JOHN KING GOT UNDERWA Y ON I6 SEPTEMBER FOR NORTHERN MERGER A NA TO EXERCISE BETWEEN AMERICAN AND BRITISH NA VIES. COMPLETING NORTHERN MERGER ON 27 SEPTEMBER JOHN KING DE TACHED TO PROCEED TO ARENDAL, NORWA Y FOR A FOUR DA Y, PORT VISIT. ON 3 OCTOBER SHE GOT UNDER WAY TO JOIN VARIOUS OTHER UNITS. ON II OCTOBER JOHN KING ALONG WITH USS MCCANDLESS ARRIVED IN GOTEBERG, SWEDEN BEING THE FIRST AMERICAN NA VAL UNITS TO VISIT THIS PORT SINCE I96 7. DURING THIS THREE DAY PORT VISIT THE SHIP WAS VISITED BY OVER SIX THOUSAND GUESTS AND THE CREW WAS HOSTED TO A GALAXY OF PARTIES AND TOURS. ON I4 OCTOBER JOHN KING GOT UNDERWAY AND TRANIS TED THE DOVER S TRAITS FOR A PORT VISIT IN PL YMOUTH, ENGLAND. AFTER A SHORT VISIT, THE SHIP LEFT PL YMOUTH TO JOIN AMPHIBIOUS SQUADRON EIGHT, FOR THE RETURN TRANSIT. JOHN KING ARRIVED IN NORFOLK ON 30 OCTOBER. UPON HER RETURN TO NORFOLK SHE ENTERED A UPKEEP PERIOD PREPARING FOR THE UPCOMING OPERATING PLANT PROPULSION EXAMINATION COPPEQ WHICH WAS SUCCESSFULL Y COMPLETED ON I4 AND I5 NOVEMBER. FROM I6 NOVEMBER TO 2 DECEMBER JOHN KING REMAINED IN UPKEEP. ON 2 DECEMBER THE JOHN KING WAS UNDERWA Y FOR TRAINING IN THE VACAPES OPAREAS WHERE SHE SUCCESSFULL Y COMPLETED FIRING TWO STANDARD MISSILES AGAINST A DRONE TARGET. ON 6 DECEMBER JOHN KING RETURNED TO NORFOLK TO COMMENCE HER CHRISTMAS LEA VE PERIOD AND TENDER A VAILABILI TY. IN MAY OF I975 JOHN KING BEGAN A TEN MONTH OVERHAUL WITH THE NORFOLK NA VAL SHIPYARD. WHILE SHE WAS IN THE YARDS ON 2 JUL Y COMMANDER F KELL Y RELIEVED COMMANDER R.C. WILEY AS COMMANDING OFFICER. THE REGULAR OVERHAUL ENDED 20 FEBRUARY I976. DEFICIENCIES NOTED DURING THE POST REPAIR TRIALS WERE OUICKL Y CORRECTED, THUS ENABLING JOHN KING TO COMPLETE HER ROH AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. DURING THE MONTHS OF MARCH TO JUNE JOHN KING CONDUC TED VARIOUS MISSILE AND GUN SHIP QUALIFICATION TRIALS SUCCESSFULL Y PASSING ALL QUALIFICATIONS WITH HIGH SCORES. DURING HER REFRESHER TRAINING KIO MA Y-I5 JUNEQ SHE WAS CALLED AWAY ON A SEARCH AND RESCUE KSAR2 MISSION NORTH OF JAMAICA. A CA YMAN ISLAND FISHING VESSEL, THE NEDDOB, WAS ADRIFT IN EIGHT FOOT SEAS WITH A JAMAICAN GUNBOAT STANDING BY BUT UNABLE TO TAKE THE FLOUNDERING FISHERMAN IN TOW. NOT WITHOUT DIFFICUL TY, A 5 IN TOWING HO WER WAS PASSED TO THE NEDDOB. A ARDUOUS ELEVEN HOURS, EIGHTY MILE TOW TO SAFETY OF OCHO RIOS, JAMAICA FOLLOWED. WHILE ENTROUTE BACK TO RESUME REFRESHER TRAINING THE FOLLOWING RADIO MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE NEDDOB: 'FOR C.O. AND ALL HANDS USS JOHN KING, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR KIND COOPERATION AND ASSISTANCE, PLEASANT SAILING . ON I5 JUNE, WITH REFRESHER TRAINING SUCCESSFULL Y COMPLETED JOHN KING STEAMED EAST TO THE ATLANTIC FLEET WEAPONS RANGE, TO TAKE PART IN OPERATION MOBILE SEA RANGE A MISSZE IZIi!,Ni:?NEdjE,IE,C6i'L1:EA9G-AINS T A UNAUGMENTED TARGET DRONES FL YING PROFILES. THE FIRING WAS HELD IN A HEAVY ECM CH - CROINQBQI FOUND, JOHN KING IN WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA MAKING ALL NECESSARY PREPARA TIONSOLZBC-.'gLi-IJLRIJQITQIEZ gg-:NbSA Y QCDTH BIRTHDA Y. THE BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ABOARD JOHN KING WAS INDEED EXCITING AND MEM EPENDENCE DA Y PORT VISIT PARTICIPA TED IN VARIOUS LOCAL PALM BEACH AREA FESTIVITIES. UPON CONCLUSION OF THE IND OF OVER THREE MONTH CELEBRATIONS, JOHN KING PROCEEDED TO NORFOLK ARRIVING ON 8 JUL Y, THUS ENDING HER MINI-DEPLOYMENT S A TERS. IN OF I97 7 FOUND JOHN KING IN HER HOME PORT WHERE SHE WAS BUSIL Y READ YING HERSELF FOR CARIBEX I-7 7, WHERE IN THE FIRST WEEK OF EXERCISES, JOHN KING DISTINGUISHED HERSELF BY ACHIEVING TWO DIRECT MISSILE HITS. AFTER A BRIEF PORT VISIT IN FREDRIKSTAD, S T, CROIX, JOHN KING RESUMED HER ROLE AS A TOP MISSILE SHIP, WHEN SHE AGAIN SCORED A DIRECT HIT FOR THIS PERFECT THREE FOR THREE SHOWING, JOHN KING RECEIVED COMSECNDFL T'S A WARD AS TOP MISSILEER OF CARIBEX I-7 7. ON 3l MARCH, JOHN KING STFAMFD FROM NORFOLK FOR THE MEDITERRA NEAN SEA, AND HER NINTH FL EET DEPLOYMENT. ARRIVING A T GIBRAL TER ON I2 APRIL, JOHN KING FFFFCTFD A QUICK TURNOVER WITH USS CLAUDE V. RICKFTTS CDDG-51 AND STEAMED THE NEXT DA Y TO NAPL ES, ITAL Y, WHERE SHE JOINFD IN THE ACTIVA TION OF THE NA VAL ON CALL FORCES MFDITFRRA NEAN CNA VOCFORMED 1. THIS NA TO FORCE WAS COMPOSFD OF JOHN KING, THE ITALIAN DFSTRO YFR INDOMITO, TURKISH DESTRO YFR CAKMAK, BRITISH FRIGA TE HMS MOHA WK, AND BRITISH OIL ER RFA TIDFRFA CH, ON 25 APRIL, IN PALFRMO, SICIL Y, DURING THE HEIGHT OF NA VOCFORMED ACTIVITY, JOHN KING UNDER WENT A CHANGE OF COMMA ND, IN THIS TIME HONORED CEREMONY COMMANDER THOMAS A KFLL Y III WAS RFLIF VFD OF HIS DUTIES AS COMMA NDING OFFICER BY COMMANDER JFRR Y D. BE VFRIDGF. JOHN KING ON 28 MA Y IN COMPANY WITH USS CHARLES F. ADAMS KDDG-22 ARRIVED IN PALERMO, ITAL Y FOR A TWO WEEK MAINTENANCE A VAILABILITY WITH THE LOCAL CIVILIAN SHIP YARD. JOHN KING WAS ONE OF THE FIRST SHIPS TO PAR TICIPA TE IN THIS NEW PROGRAM OF U.S. WARSHIP MAINTENANCE PERFORMED BY FOREIGN CIVILIAN SHIP YARDS. UPON COMPLETION OF THE A VAILABILITY JOHN KING TOOK PART IN VARIOUS NA TO EXERCISES THE MOST NO TEWORTHY IS NA TIONAL WEEK XXIII. JOHN KING ACTING AS A MEMBER OF THE ORANGE FORCE WAS ABLE TO STA Y 'AFL OA T UNTIL THE FINAL DA Y OF THE FXFRCISF. THIS SUCCESS WAS A TTRIBUTFD IN PART TO HER COMOFLA GE OF A ITALIAN NA VY HULL NUMERALS IN PLA CE OF HFR REGULAR THRFF . ON B OCTOBER JOHN KING ARRIVFD A T GILRAL TAR FOR TURNOVER WITH USS TRUETT IFF-I0952. AFTER A RAPID TURNOVER, JOHN KING DEPAR TED THF MFDITFRRA NEAN ARRIVING ON 2l OCTOBER AFTER ALMOST SEVEN MONTHS ABSENCE. - AS THE END OF I977 CALENDAR YEAR ARRIVFD JOHN KING ENTERED A RESTRICTED A VAILABILITY WITH A NUMBER OF NORFOLK AREA SHORE AND SEA REPAIR COMMANDS AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF MAJOR ENGINEERING PLANT MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS. WITH THE BEGINNING OF I97s THF PROPOSAL TO MO VE JOHN KING TO PHILADELPHIA NA VAL SHIP YARD TO COMPLETE THE REPAIRS TO HER ENGINEERING PLANT WAS UNDFR CONSIDFRA TION. THE DECISION WAS FINALIZFD IN MID-JA NUARY AND ON 3Q JANUARY JOHN KING ARRIVED IN PHILADELPHIA NA VAL SHIP YARD AND COMMENCED A FOUR MONTH OVERHA UL OF HER MAIN PROPUL SION PLA NT. JOHN KING DFPAR TED THF NA VAL SHIP YARD ON I9 MA Y AND CONDUCTED VARIOUS TRAINING OPERA TIONS SUCH AS NGFS OUALIFICA TIONS, SELECTED RFFRFSHFR TRAINING IN GUANTA NAMO BA Y, CUBA WITH EMPHASIS PLA CED ON ENGINEERING TRAINING. IN THE MONTH OF JUL Y JOHN KING TOOK PART IN COMP TUEX 4-78. i ON 3 OCTOBER NEARL Y ONF YEAR OF PREPARA TION WAS CLIMAXED WHEN JOHN KING GOT UNDER WA Y FOR HER TENTH MFDITFRRA NEAN DFPLOYMFNT. ON 2 NOVEMBER, JOHN KING DFTA CHED TO PROCFFD TO TUNIS, TUNISIA WHERE SHE ARRIVED ON 3 NOMEMBER. DURING THE SHIP'S VISIT TO TUNIS, THE COMMANDING OFFICER, ALONG WITH SEVERAL OF THE SHIP'S OFFICERS AND CREW MEMBERS, PARTICIPA TED IN A WRFA TH LA YING CEREMONY A T TUNISIA 'S SEDJOUMI MONUMFNT, A MEMORIAL TO ALL TUNISIA NS WHO DIED IN THEIR FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE. ADDITIONALL Y, THE STA Y IN TUNISIA WAS MARKED BY AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO JOHN KING BY THE TUNISIAN CNO. THE CHRISTMAS OF 78 WAS SPENT IN NAPLES, ITAL Y. WITH THE BEGINNING OF A NEW YEAR AND JOHN KING IN THE MIDDLE OF HER TFNTH DEPLOYMENT TO THE MFDITFRRA NEAN CONDUCTING VARIOUS ASW EXERCISES ALONG THE COAST OF SPAIN AND PAR TICIPA TING IN NA TIONAL WEEK xx VI. ON I5 MARCH JOHN KING DEPAR TED THE MFDITFRRA NEA N. SHE ARRIVFD IN NORFOLK ON 4 APRIL TO A LARGE WEL COME. DURING THE BRIEF RFSPITF AFTER HER DFPLOYMFNT, COMMANDER WILLIAM G. COLLINS, JR. RFLIFVFD COMMANDER BEVERIDGE AS COMMA NDING OFFICER. DURING THE MONTHS OF JUNE AND JUL Y JOHN KING CONDUCTFD TRAINING AND A BOARD OF INSPECTIONS AND SURVEY IINSUR Vp. ON I6 AUGUST SHE GOT UNDER WA Y FOR A DFPFNDFNTS' CRUISE. ON I8 AUGUST THE SHIP LEFT TO UNDFRGO NGFS OUALIFICA TIONS AND TO PAR TICIPA TE IN COMP TUEX 3-79 WHERE JOHN KING WAS TO POSE AS A KARA CLASS CRUISER. JOHN KING WAS COMMFNDFD BY COMSECONDFL T FOR HER SKILLFUL OPERA TION AND SUCCESSFUL DFCFPTION DURING THIS EXERCISE. JOHN KING RETURNED TO NORFOLK ON I SEPTEMBER AND REMAINED THERE FOR UPKEEP UNTIL IO SEPTEMBER IN PREPARA TION FOR DFPLOYMFNT TO THE NOR TH A TLANTIC. ON Il SEPTEMBER THE SHIP DFPAR TED FOR OCEAN SAFARI, A NA TO EXERCISE REOUIRING CL OSF COORDINA TION WITH OTHER FOREIGN UNITS. BETWEEN OPERA TIONS JOHN KING ENJO YED A PORT VISIT TO KRISTIA NSA ND, NOR WA Y AND COPFNHA GEN, DENMARK. JOHN KING LEFT COPFNHA GEN ON 22 OCTOBER AND TRA NISTED TO RO TTERDAM IN THE NETHERLANDS. SHE LEFT FOR NORFOLK ON 27 OCTOBER AND ARRIVFD IN NORFOLK ON 9 NO VEMBER, THE SHIP WOUND UP THE YEAR MAKING PRFPARA TIONS FOR THE OPFRA TIONAL PROPULSION PLANT FKAMINA TION WHICH WAS CONDUCTFD I0 TO I2 DECEMBER. AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL FXAMINA TION, THE SHIP STOOD DO WN FOR CHRISTMAS AND PREPARED FOR CARIBBEAN OPERATIONS AND REGULAR OVFRHA UL IN I9BO AFTER COMPLFTING CARIBBEAN OPERA TIONS JOHN KING FNTFRFD THE PHILADELPHIA NA VAL SHIP YARD IN APRIL OF I9SO FOR A REGULAR OVFRHA UL. DURING THE OVFRHA UL SHE WOULD RECEIVE A UPDA TED WEAPON SYSTEM, MAJOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT UPDA TES, AND RE VITALIZED ENGINEERING PLANT BEFORE IT WAS SCHEDULED TO DEPART IN JUNE I9SI. ON 7 APRIL I9SI THE TWFNTY-ONF YEAR OLD DESTRO YFR GOT UNDERWA Y FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN A YEAR TO CONDUCT SEA TRAILS. JOHN KING SUCCESSFUL Y COMPLETED SEA TRAILS AND RETURNED TO PHILADELPHIA ON I0 APRIL AFTER ACCOMPLISHING NUMEROUS SYSTEMS TEST. THE OVFRHAUL PERIOD WOULD CONTINUE UNTIL JUNE I9sI. ON 3I MA Y, JOHN KING RECEIVED A NEW COMMA NDING OFFICER AS COMMANDER STANLEY J. PR YZBY RELIEVED COMMANDER COLLINS. TWO WEEKS LA TER SHE LEFT PHILADELPHIA AND RETURNED TO NORFOLK ON I5 JUNE. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR EFFORTS WERE TURNED TOWARDS RFTURNING THE SHIP TO A FIGHTING MAN O' WAR. NUMBEROUS UNDER WA Y PFRIODS IN THE VIRGINIA CAPFS, NFARL Y FOUR CONSFCUTIVF MONTHS OF WEAPONS OUALIFICA TIONS AND EIGHT WEEKS OF RFFRFSHFR TRAINING IN GUANTA NAMO BA Y FNSURFD THA T THE CREW MFMBFRS OF JOHN KING WERE READY FOR ANYTHING. THE SHIP RETURNED TO NORFOLK ON JI DECEMBER AFTER STOPPING IN PORT EVERGLADES, AND MA YPOR T, FLORIDA. THE FIRST PART OF I9S2 WAS BUSY FOR JOHN KING AS SHE CONDUCTFD VARIOUS FXFRCISFS MAKING PRFPARA TIONS FOR HER FIRST MFDITFRRA NEA NXINDIAN OCEAN DEPLO YMENT. JOHN KING GOT UNDFR WA Y FOR THE MEDXIO ON S JUNE. DURING THIS DFPLOYMFNT SHE WAS SCHEDULED TO VISIT MANY POR TS. HO WE VER DUF TO REAL WORLD EVENTS SHE SPENT A GREA T DEAL OF TIME OFF THE COAST OF BEIRUI LFBANAN. ONF OF THE LONGEST UNDER WA Y PERIOD WAS OVER 57 DA YS. SHE WAS LA TER A WARDED THE NA VAL EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NA VY. POR TS THF SHIP DID VISIT WERE NAPLES, ITAL me ALEXA NDIA, EG YP72 AUGUSTA BA Y, SICIL Y, AND RO TA SPAIN. JOHN KING RETURNED TO NORFOLK I6 NOVEMBER. THE FIRST PART OF I9s3 JOHN KING UNDER WFNT VARIOUS INSPFCTIONS, DEFENSE NUCLEAR SAFETY INSPECTION, NUCLEAR TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY INSPECTION, 3M INSPECTION AND INSUR V. SHE ALSO CONDUCTED A CHIEF OF NA VAL OPERA TIONS SPECIAL OPERA TIONS PROJECT FOR MINE WARFARF. JOHN KING ALSO PAR TICIPA TED IN ANTI-SUBMARINF WARFARE EXERCISES. ON I4 MA Y, IN A SHIP BOARD CEREMONY COMMANDER RONALD F. BISHIP ASSUMED COMMAND RELIEVING COMMANDER PR YZB Y AS COMMANDER OFFICER. W'T' 1 OMMAND MASTER CHIEF RAYMOND T JONES FCCM YS W1 USN COMMAND MASTER CHIEF RA YMOND I5 A NA TIVE OF NOR TH PHILADELPHIA PENN5 YL VA NIA. HE ENLISTED IN THE NA VY IN NOVEMBER IQGQ. MASTER CHIEF JONES A TTENDED BASIC TRAINING CENTER SAN DIEGO. HE HAS A TTENDED VARIOUS NA VAL SCHOOLS WHICH INCLUDE SER VICE SCHOOL VALLEJO CALIFORNIA, NA VAL TRAINING CENTER GREA T LAKES, SER VICE SCHOOL COMMAND BA INBRIDGE MARYLAND, NA VAL AIR STA TION MEMPHIS TENNESSEE, AND GUIDE MISSLE SCHOOL DAM NECK VIRGINIA. MASTER CHIEF JONES' SHORE DUTY STA TIONS INCLUDE TERRIERXTAR TAR MISSILE FACILITY NA VAL WEAPONS STA TION YORK- TO WN, HIS SEA TOURS HA VE BEEN IN USS RICHARD E. BYRD CDDG-232, USS BARNEY CDDG-62, USS CLAUDE V. RICKETTS YDDG-51, AND USS SEMMES CDDG-l8Q. MASTER CHIEF JONES PERSONAL A WARD5 INCLUDE NA VY EXPEDITOINARY MED- AL, NA VY ACHIE VEMENT MEDAL C2 A WARDSJ, SEA SER VICE DEPL O YMENT RIBBON, AND GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL. MASTER CHIEF JONES RECEIVED A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STA TE OF NEW YORK IN IQSO HE IS MARRIED TO THE FORMER JUDI TH ANN SIL VER OF HOLLIS TER, NOR TH CAROLINA AND RESIDES IN VIRGINIA BEA CH. Engineering Department , af -- .. n ' 1 ,ence Q, PRECQD pfleva 6 ENC WW Q5 FR-' 31:5 X3 , HX A 94 :Q q d - n I fe Diff?-JI X n W an fo! 'ng 0 I J K 'A n e DOLJJER Dee-M35 Q LCDR. MICHAEL BRANNON CHIEF ENGINEER LCDR. MICHAEL BRANNON IS A NATIVE OF CROTON OHIO. HE A TTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI AND RECEIVED HIS COMMISSION OCTOBER l978. . LCDR. BRANNON SEA COMMANDS HA VE BEEN USS GARCIA CFF-lO4Oj, AND USS PENSACOLA KLSD-382. HIS SHORE COMMANDS INCLUDE NA VAL AIR STATION OCEANA, AND NA VAL RECRUITING DISTRICT COLUMBUS OHIO. LCDR. BRANNON PERSONAL AWARDS INCLUDE NA VY ACHIE VEMEN T MEDAL. HE AND HIS WIFE DENISE AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN TC .IESSICA C I3 Q, MISHELE CID RESIDE IN VIRGINIA BEACH. L UG. CARIKER ENS. BA GGETT CW02 L YNCH Mfwcsfswy IS ENCCSWQ EMCCSWQ DCCKSWQ I MAXEY Jomvsozv + zuHLsDoRf Molemsfrrf Nor Plcrukfo ENS. HOGAN BTCCSWQ BRIDGES Brcsfsvco omsofv DCCKSWQ PRAHM Mccfsvro A rwooo BTCISWQ ,IENNINGS 11 1 O O M.E. STEEL SAN ANTONIO TX L.L. HA YNES PAMPLICO S.C. E. HEBER T J GRA Y KEN TWOOD MICH. I LG. BRYAN BRONX N. Y. D. SCO TT NASHVILLE TN. K.M. BUSHE Y VINENNES IND. A 1.5. TA YL OR YADKINVILLE N. C. M DIVI IO C.M. SISSON CALEDONIA N Y. D. G. FUNK POR TLA ND OR. S. MCLAULY KALISPELL M71 R.E. STEPHEN OBLAND FL. Y PJ. CARPENTER WHITE BEARLAKE MN V.S. TABOR LITTE TON CO. .l.B. HOUSA ND LAKE WOOD CO. U. PICKARD THOMGS TON GA. - l COFFEE MESS z' Lk. X .5 '- 1.2155-1 ' XL f ,--hgx. - ., , , - . . ' . -, 4, .' I 'ight . V' 'M ' 1 I 4-,F X , ,f 5 ,- ml U e , . Q , 5 9- Y,-' -A., . ' FL 5 , 41. . f - I 1 ' .-L, I Q3 I' . --, If' 4 ' .I - E11 . Q I SL.. ' O I F.A. BILLINGS Lo. Eckfok OWENSBORO, LAMBERT, Ms .,,M,G,,,,,E,,,mA,E,, KY ' 'can Most nmqewnin 'usrrs aerrenr GROUP SHOT R.A. BRADLEY - KINGS MOUNTAIN, NC F.E. DE VRIEZE - DEPE W, NY K.D. EVANS - CANTON, OH Z. FAN - SAN FRANCISCO, CA S. T. FR YE - GOLD BAR, WS W.M. HALL - BLUFFTON, IN L.J. HAMILTON -- AUSTIN, PA E. W. HAMMONS - ZA VALLA, TX E.F. HERBERT - JEFF, LA T.M. MAHON - LANCASTER, OH S.M. MACCAULE Y - KALISPELL, MT S.E. MYERS - MA YGANSVILLE, MD M. W. NE WMAN - FREDERICKSBURG, VA L. W. PRICE - INDIAN HILL DR Y. K Y G.R. RA YNER D. SCOTT - NASHVILLE, TN R.E. S TPEHEN .l.S. TAYLOR - YADKINVILLE, NC K..l. THOMAS - HERRIN, IL M.A. THOMAS - VINCENNES, IN. TZP. WOODWARD - CODVILLE, OR. B.H. YOUNG - PULASKI, TN. M DIVISION THE M-DIVISION MACHINS T MA TES OPERA TE AND MAINTAIN THE SHIP'S TWO MAIN EN- GINES, REDUCTION GEARS, SHAFTS, TURBO GENERA TORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT THEY ALSO OPERA TE THE DIS TILLING PLANTS TO PRODUCE THE SHIP'S POTABLE WA TER. 'MM'S SPEND LONG HOURS IN VERY HOT AND INCREDIBLY NOIS Y SPACES TO ENSURE JOHN KING IS READY TO ANSWER ALL BELLS L. Q7-,:., .1 ,Z fi? fi 'E I . xT'? 'T - win? 13 If, 15,5-ff' 'Gil TJ 'J 'il 5-e .,...,, iii B DIVISION M.K. HALSTEAD CHARLESTON W. VA. WJ. BAN VILLE F 71 CORRIGAN, TX .l.E. CARRENDER ELK TON, K Y 1.3. 529 a. I' 'A R.M. MCDONALD PHILADELPHIA, PA. D.A. HOLBROOK JASPER, AL L.L. BRO WN U TICA, OH R.L. DITTO HUDSON, FL. R.R. TAYLOR LAKE CITY, TN .l.M. MEEKS HA RDEE VIL L E, SC BOILER TECHNICANS TEND THE FOUR DCD PSI BOILERS WHICH ARE THE HEART OF JOHN KING. THE BT'S GENERATE THE STEAM FOR MAIN - ENGINES, TUBRO GENERA TORS, COOKING, LAUNDRY AND HEA TING. LONG HOURS IN EX TREMEL Y ARDUOUS CONDITIONS ARE REQUIRED TO KEEP THIS 'MAN O'WAR READY TO ANSWER ALL BELLS ATA MOMENTS NOTICE. I .0 'Q Y, 6 x RJ. MICHAELS S TROUDSBURG, PA A.P. STANTON BERR YVILLE, VA. aw. JACKSON MM. SMITH D.c: HODGE T KALIPSELL, MA svcffnfssokn, Rnveow, GA NJ M.A. PAPP C. ZAMORA TUCSON, AZ I S.C. KISTLER .I..l. SHARP BRANDON, FL NEW ORLEANS, LA GROUP SHOT L.P. ADAMS - EVANSVILLE, IA .l.E. CA TES - HUNTSVILLE, TX PJ. DEWOLF - HARTVILLE, VA G. HAUETER - EASTWOOD, KY .l.C. HOLLOWAY - ORLANDO, FL C.E. HOMER - HALLEYVILLE, AL R.L. HOOK - TYRONE, PA K.E. KENNEDY - OCDEN, UTAH D. LUMPKIN - IN VERNESS, FL W.R. NIX ON - TWIN LAKES, MICH D. NORBACK - MT. VERNON, WA J. PERKINS - HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND A.D. TARL TON - MONROE, NC J. WILGUS - LONG WOOD, FL S.M. BROWN - OTEGO, NY C. W. MCCAULE Y - NASHVILLE, TN P.L. TYLER GREENVILLE, SC GI-L S TOGNER DECA TUR, IL E 8 A DIVISIO C.L. MCNUL TY NORFOLK, VA R. D. SHEL TON CHA RL ES TON, NC J. SLAUGHTER EASTON, MD D.A. GORDON NORFOLK, VA B. GO VE CLIFTON PARK, NY M.A. BOL TON DANVILLE, IN A.M. BUSH NORFOLK, VA C.S. MILLER BROOK VILLE, OH S.R. BEASLEY CHARLESTON, WY TP. BAKER LANGSING, KS T. W. BROWN .IA C OBSBURG, OH 1 .n'.'?m O0 J ' O A.A. JOHNSON NORFOLK, VA D.M. MAR TS CHING S YL VES TER, GA J. W. LAUNDRY BILLERICA, MA R.D. PIERCE B.C. HUSSE Y BROOKL YN, NY 1 4 f-563 KW fL ' bn Q . A I CAM A Q 'EJ lfk N .Q , ,,.... .... I Mink I Found IS U Uxivf The PIIOIIQ 'IFOUBIQOOQ J A M. GILBERT BEAUMON T, TX J. PRICE ARL ING TON, TN REPAIR D.H. M U TC HL ER C ORPUS CHRIS TI, TX P.E. WILHELM BUTLER, MO K. FREDRICKS ON CHAMBERLAIN, SD C.M. HYDE PEORIA, IL CQ. R.A. NESMI TH PHILADELPHIA, PA R.A. SHERMAN EAGLE, MI T..l. COX B.D. BENSON HOUSTON, TX KAND YOH, MN J. B. YODER WES TMINIS TER, CA REPAIR DIVISION THE MEN OF REPAIR DIVISION HA VE TWO MAJOR AREAS OF EXPERTISE, THE FIRST IS REPAIR AND THE SECOND IS DAMAGE CONTROL. REPAIR ON A TWENTY EIGHT YEAR OLD SHIP IS A TRUE CHALLENGE. THE ll MEN IN 'R' DIVISION HA VE MET THE CHALLENGE MAINTAINING A HIGH LEVEL OF CREW HABITABILITY, PERFORMING NUMEROUS WEAPON SYSTEMS REPAIRS AND DOING THEIR SHARE TO KEEP THE SCRE WS TURING. DAMAGE CONTROL MEN MAINTAIN ALL THE REPAIR LOCKER AND DAMAGE CONTROL EQUIPMENT SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE SHIP. THEY ALSO TRAIN THE CREW IN THE ART OF DAMAGE CONTROL. THEIR SUCCESS IS PROUDL Y DISPLA YED BY THE RED 'DCU A WARD EMBLAZONED ON THE BRIDGE WINGS. THE HULL TECHNICIANS, DAMAGE CONTROL MEN AND MACHINERY REPAIRMEN WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM THAT ENABLES JOHN KING TO FULFILL HER TASKING IN TOP SHAPE. II FRANCIS TISAK SUPPLY OFFICER L T. FRA NCIS XA VICE TISAK I5 NA TIVE OF AMBRIDCE PENNS YL VANIA. HE A TTENDED THE UNVIERSITY OF NO TRE DAME AND RECEIVED HIS COMMISSION MA V I9s2. L 72 TISAICS PRE VIOUS COMMANDS HA VE BEEN uSS LA WRENCE CDDG-42 SEPTEMBER IQS3-MARCH 1985 AND SA CLA NT HQ APRIL IQSS-MA Y 1988. L T. TISAKS' PERSONAL A WARDS INCLUDE JOINT SER VICE ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL AND SEA SER VICE RIBBON. HE AND HIS WIFE ERMILINDA AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN PA TRICIA 5101, JOA NNE 549 RESIDE IN VIRGINIA BEA CH. ENS. STEARN5 MSCCSWQ CERMAK w i Y 1 w l A 5 s I I 1 A 1 I 1 I i W fi . fi A w v i I i N . 1 h K, SUPPLY ? A J. PRICE VA. BEACH VA G.A. KLINGENSMI TH NORTH HUNTINGTON, PA N M. FREDERICKS ON HIGHLANDS, TX ji TQ R.5. FARBER P VA. BEACH VA R.E. MARABLE DAN VII.I.E, VA c. RICH T LANCASTER, PA - A M.5. THOMPSON BROOKL YN, NY R.M. RU THERF ORD CHICA GO, IL 0.6. BAILEY TULSA, ox V.A. COX BROOKL YN NY. C.R. CLIFFORD GREENFIELD OH. GROUP SHOT LT. TISAK - AMBRIDGE PA. ENS. S TEARNS - CAPE CORAL, FLA. MSC CERMAK - VA. BEACH, VA. MSI .l.L. REERNEIK - FOREST CITY, PA. SK2 D. COOPER - LOUISVILLE MS. SH2 W. TA YLOR - COLUMBUS MS. SH3 C. ALLENDER - LEXINGTON KY. SH3 E. BERGLAND - WINFIELD IL. MSSN M. SA TAZAR - ALBURQUERQUE N.M. SUPPL Y DEPARTMENT FROM PROVIDING MEALS FOR CLOSE TO 350 MEN FROM SUNRISE TO MIDNIGHI PROVIDING IMPOR TA NT SER VICES AS LA UNDR Y, BARBERSHOP, SHIP STORE AND DISBURSING TO THE ORDERING 8 CONTROL ALL PARTS AND SUPPLIES. THE SUPPL Y DEPARTMENT PERFORM THESE SERVICES AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE SMOOTH OPERA TION OF THE SHIP. 21 J ll J ll li 53 ,, rx Ii ii 1: H ii li if fi 4, 'N l ie 2 H u H U ei 11 w U 1 li 19 H 1. 35 .K U 25 ,N w e 1 ei , , ll i rl , W ii Nr 'N 4 1 E l I X I EE H fl ei N U 51 5 J W w 4 w I N NN 11 E 5 i Weapon Department -. ....- dir- in --g,.V. S -: LCDR. MICHAEL SHUMA KER WEA PONS OFFICER I A LCDR. MICHAEL R. SHUMAKER IS A NA TIVE OF SAN SCHOOL. EX PEDI TIONAR Y. CC K VA L T. HIR T L T. HOPPES L T. WYNN ENS. DENNIS ENS. S WIDER I 1 S TCGSCS W1 AMBROZEWSKI NOT PICTURED GMGCCSWQ FCCISWY DR555 fccgswg Couk TNEY BOARDMAN srecfswy SHEARER JOSE CALIFORNIA. HE ATTENDED THE U.S. NA VAL ACADEMY AND RECEIVED HIS COMMISSION JUNE I978. AFTER GRADUATION FROM THE NA VAL ACADEMY HE REPORTED TO THE NA VAL NUCLEAR POWER SCHOOL. UPON COMPLETION OF SCHOOL REPORTED TO THE USS CARL VINSON C C VN- 702 AND SERVED ON BOARD FROM MA Y l98O TO OCTOBER I982, LCDR SHUMAKER THAN REPORTED TO USS HARRY E. YARNELL WHERE HE SERVED FROM OCTOBER l982 TO APRIL I985 AS E WO. BEFORE REPORTING TO THE JOHN KING LCDR. . SHUMAKER A TTENDED NA VAL POST GRADUA TE LCDR. SHUMAKER PERSONNEL A WARDS INCLUDE THE NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDAL AND TWO NAVY HE AND HIS WIFE DONNA L YNN AND THEIR TW CHILDREN RACHAEL Q2 AND MICHAEL KQMOQ RESI E IN NORFOL , . O D L TJG. OUDELAAR BMCISWQ GREENE 23 ISI' DIVISION .l.K. EADS .LC. HARDIN HJ. CORDERO JACKSONVILLE, NORFOLK, VA UNION CITY, FL NJ IE. HOKE MONROE, OH I 5.E. WALLER MEDICINE LODGE, K5 Maj X fn IKHX sf Rv I ll X will L, I A V, ' inn' f1ML X ll ...WZ XJ 1 mr ZW -ff JI ' I ll ll. 4 3 ll Iii dl! w ::'::: Ii ax S - 55 ::: I :za , L Aiiilhn uw, I ' V' '. ,l,f ifg,-N ,-JQQEU ,ll - ' Ib' 1 f-f -f ,' f '--wxnz, H vvqgyv--v , , ,gg .::1:'-N. II, 2.1: if 1 i-ing' ':: EERE 'EERE 0. ' I 'f 'f 'Ii IIQE 512- .. :1:.. vig ff-22 I 1 .fs .Em am: if Aa-es :au nm lggggg ' ,Z 33' Ill! III I-1-I I 1 ll' -x lg gm., .1 um I ' ::1. -, 2 we EEEEEUIIIW sg .duh Slfgggffglfmfg .NN 5- ' f5gEEiE:Il':L3.m5'Z - .-l-----.- rZ.-.:::::::,-1 X l I-il. l.i ' V I 'lx -U L- ' 3 33 3 3333 24 1 I 4 E 9 A lam la! mul 3 I - x R.D. JOHNSON VISALIA, CA D.K. BLA NCHARD DANSVILLE, MI IP. KEOUGH BL UFL O WER, CA EEEEEEEEEEE!-.EERE EEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE E E. E. EE. .l. SEARLES LAKELAND, FL K.L. BOGGS RIVERSIDE, CA J. C. HARMON DO VER, DE B.MO YAR POR TER, IN M. CAUDILL RADCLIFF, NY A.V. SNELSON DECATUR, GA B.L. MC CAR TER CRA WFORD, MS S.K. BLEDSOE YUMA, AZ 2 A inf 'S P gf,-55, l X A ' ' 'J S2 . A x A A , X f- f ' I , N I El I FSH-iff-.VE FIRST DIVISION GROUP SHOT BMCKSWQ GREENE BR. WALKER - ARAB, AL D. BO VEY - sloux CITY, IA B.S. WINTERS - SIL VER SPRINGS, MD - B.L. MCCARTER - CRA WFORD, MS S. RADINOVIC - PRESCOT71 AZ E.S. PICKETT - NORFOLK, VA NOT PIC TURED J. HALL - BONNIEVILLE, KY T. KIRPA TRICK - MECHANICSBURG, PA D.L. GA TES - BESSEMER, AL .l.D. GORICK - MILLSBORO, DE J. BUSTAMANTE - OARLAND, I EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEE E EEEEE ul X, 2ND DIVI IO 56 P.M. PHILLIPS DETROIT, MI v7J. Mo YER BAL TLMORE, MD W.R. THOMPSON CHESAPEAKE, W. T.R. BURGOS PUERTO RICO VA B. THOMPSON MUNL IE, IN RJ. ENGERT ORMOND, FL C i MD. HARTER EC. MITCHELL ALPENA, Ml SAVANNAH, GA 1 K. NAPIER CHICAGO, IL FLEMING, KY K. JENNINGS M.D. ROUSE WADMALA W TOPEKA, KA ISLAND, SC GROUP SHOT LT. WYNN - NEWPORT NEWS VA GMC COURTNE Y - FRENCHTON W. VIRGINIA FCC DREES - FONTANELIE IOWA J. ORTIZ - BRONX, NY R.M. COWAN - BIRMINGHAM, AL R.L. KLEBER - LOUISVILLE, KY .l.H. WILKS - LINCOLN, MT 44 EJ. LOPEZ SAN JOSE, CA L M.A. CAMPBELL RAWON, CA T.L. WILLIS ATLANTA, GA C.B. PIERCE MT. PLEASANT, SC AS DIVI IO .l.D. SCHU LE VITTO WN, PA E MA YNARD THREE mvfk, CA W.M. HUGHES C HAPPA QUA, N Y W.B. ROU TON MA NCHES TER, GA ELA. HEYMAN T TIFFIN, OH F.L. LORENCE MISHA WAKA, IN ML. LUMPKIN T TlTusvlLLE, FL Xvl 5 Q ' C.N. DANIELS HA VANA, FL P.R. HUVAL MAURICE, LA GROUP SHOT - D. W. AMMERMAN BL OOMING rolv, .L MABRY LA WTON, OK M. KENNEDY - STONEBORO, PA T. LEONIS - ILION, NY J. NICHOLSON - SUMMERVILLE, SC D. PRITCHETT - MOBILE, AL NO T PIC TURED S TGC D. SHEARER - LOS ANGELES, CA YK? K.L. ARNOLD INDIANAPOLIS, IN D.A. SMITH CHARL O TTE, NC D.K. MORGAN FREEPORI1 IL I P.M. LAMBERT PEN ARG YL, PA FO J. W. MORRIS VAL PARAIS O, IN A.F. WARNER NORFOLK, VA J. W. CAS TL EBERR Y CAS TLEBERR K AL I J.H. SZCUR BUFFALO, NY DIVI IO S.F. AMARAL JONESBORO, ARK 1 G.H. C OPELA ND ROCKHILL, SC 1.5. T HARRWGTON OTEGA, NY i..F. LEE KINGSTON, JAMAICA H.F. SHIELDS CHA THAM, N Y I D.M. AGARD PO TTERS VILL E, N Y K.E. GIMLIN VIRGINIA BEA CFL VA M.L. HUNTER SHERMAN, TX x ,f ak B.R. GEORGE MIDDL EBARG, FLA 5 C.M. MCKAY JOHNSON CITY, TN R.E. CAIN BLAKEL Y, GA P. GIOVANI GLENS FALLS, NY .l.A. CHENE VER T NEWTON NJ. R. W. PERSINGER Ci GERSHEN NORFOLK VA. LAKEWOOD .l.E. LOMAX III PHILADELPHIA PA. J. BURRA GE Moss Ponvr Ms. GROUP sl-for . cf. RODRIGUEZ - PONCE PR. D.A. WARDLOW - NORFOLK VA N X Department . P .haf i QM. I , f Y X V I f 4 , ' 'imma BUT ITS JUST A FINGER PAPER' CUT. 'y.-Q' 'N NF-as J 1 g Sxxg x 6 E -f NJ1 , 6 B 9?-Q' E .f j I i ,J LT .ION ALBERT FRANKE ADMIN. OFFICER L T ION ALBERT ERANRE IS A NA TIVE OF MIDLAND TEXAS. HE A TTENDED THE UNITED STA TES NA VAL ZSZXDEMY AND RECEIVED HIS COMMISSION MA V UPON GRADUA TION FROM THE ACADEMY L 71 FRA NRE A TTENDED GRADUA TE SCHOOL A T THE UNIVERSITY OF MAR VLA ND. L T FRA NRE THEN REPORTED TO THE IOHN KING. L 72 FRA NKES' PERSONAL A WARDS INCLUDE SEA SER VICE RIBBON 529. HE IS ENGA GED TO BECKY OLSZEWSRI. A NOVEMBER WEDDING IS PLANNED. 5 LUG. RYAN ECCSISWQ RAD VO NOT RICTuRED MA CIS Wy WHITMORE ADMIN SHIP'S CORRESPONDENCE, INSTRUCTIONS, THE PLAN OF THE DA Y, PERSONNEL RECORDS, ORDERS, TRANSFERS, LEGAL AND SO OM THE FLOW OF PAPERWORK IS ALMOST ENDLESS, AND IT IS HANDLED BY ONE DIVISIOM X DIVISION. IF THE PAPER WORK OF THE NA VY WERE VIEWED AS A FORES71 THE YEOMEN AND PERSONNEL-MEN OF X DIVISION ARE THE GUIDES THROUGH THE FOREST. HOW SOON AM I ELIGIBLE FOR REENLISTMENT? WHAT ARE MY RIGHTS UNDER THE U.C.M..I.? HOW DO I UPDATE MY SERVICE RECORD? IF X DIVISION DOESN'T HA VE THE ANSWER, THEY KNOW WHO DOES. ' 31 C.R. LANE CLOUDCROFT N. MEXICO R.L. SMITH LOUISBURG, NC J: 1 R S8888 L.E. CLOUD CHICA GO, IL D. W. COLBERT DICKERS ON RUN, PA .v- i W. DEWITT TAMPA, FL. I L.D. ROLAND COLUMBUS, MS GROUP SHOT R. WILLIAMS - FT. WA YNE IN. K.G. HAMMER -- LITTLETON, CO. R. W. BROOKS - HOUSTON, TX R.L. MYERS - STOCK TON, CA. ' R.M. SMITH - SOUTH ORANGE, NJ L.D. THOMPSON - PITTSBURG, PA. NOT PIC TURED .I.M. COLLAZO - VEGA AL TA PR. R.W. WASH - VA. BEACH, VA. H. OTIS - SWAMPSCOTT, MA. D. T. O'TOOl.E P.E. R.l:'. LIM BALTIMORE, MARcH1oNf ZAMBOANGA MD ONEONTA, NY CITY, PI A LD. R. WILLIAMS rHoMPsoN Fr. WA wvf, nv ST PITTSBURGH, so are PA ,Q W 049 A Q Q N ' 151 f .4 -fa N-5 A 3 4 ya W 0 Nlllll'5:' V Q, CDU Nga T , Ll x X OPERATIONS S+, 2 a X BREAKER . BREAKER GOOD BUDDY. wnms YOUPO20'? X 'J X .4 RM? I L I GLIPEN LCDR. KEITH JOHN BYER5 OPERATIONS OFFICER LCDR. KEITH JOHN BYERS IS A NA TIVE OF LEESBURC VIRIONIA. HE A TTENDED THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY AND RECEIVED HIS COMMISSION OCTOBER I9 78. LCDR. BYERS SERVED ABOARD USS FAIRFAX COUNTY FROM MARCH I9 79 TO JUNE I9s2. FROM JUL Y I9s2 TO NOVEMBER 1984 HE SER VED WITH COMMANDER NA VAL BEA CH GROUP TWO. IN NOVEMBER 1984 LCDR. BYERS TRA NSERED TO NA VAL NUCLEAR POWER SCHOOL. UPON COMPLETION OF NUCLEAR POWER SCHOOL HE REPORTED TO THE PRE- COMMISSION UNIT OEF USS THEODORE ROOSE VEL T. LCDR. BYERS REPORTED TO THE JOHN KING APRIL IQBQ. LCDR. BIYER5 PERSONAL A WARDS INCLUDE NA VY ACHIE VEMENT MEDAL5 521, SEA SER VICE RIBBON. HE AND HIS WIFE BARBABA AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN JOHA THAN 569, ZAC up RESIDE IN CHESAPEAKE VIRGINIA. L T. MOL CHAN Y L T. ALEXANDER E TCSC 5 W1 FOR TINO RRMCSYSWQ BET RMCCSWQ WIL DER WHEELER NOT PICTURED L T. BISHOP A OSCYSWQ SISLER ENS. L O WDIN OSCYSW9 HALSTEN Ol DIVI IO THE OPERATIONS SPECIALIS TS AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE TECHNICIANS OF OI DIVISION MAN THE COMBAT INFORMATION CENTER AROUND THE CLOCK. FROM THERE THEY DIREC TL Y SUPPORT THE BRIDGE BY PROVIDING INFORMATION PERTINENT TO THE OPERATION OF THE SHIP. BY ASCERTAINING THE COURSES AND SPEEDS OF SURFACE CONTACTS, COMBAT CAN RECOMMEND AVOIDING COURSES TO THE OFFICER OF THE DECK. WITH SEVERAL RADIO CIRCUITS BLARING AT ONCE, THE OS 'S ASSIST WITH THE COORDINA TION OF VARIOUS EVENTS SUCH AS UNREPS AND Lg' HELO OPS. THE E W'S PROVIDE IDENTIFICATION AND RE H. T. HAR TLE Y BIRMINGHAM, AL. .l.P. S OMER VIL L E VA. BEA CH, VA. F. HART BRONX, NY. C.A. COGAR C.A. J,C, BROWN WASHINGTON SCHUMACHER QUITMAN, GA, DC. OSKAL OOSA, KS. 0 I . 3 S . 00 E in 5 Q wgnlllnlhi ' , - 3 '23 SQ CoM0A7, fpzespcxij IIKQ- You SLHQ2. A180 Um' THAT Cowisa? POR TING OF SO VIE T BLOCK VESSELS. J. W. SHAFER NORFOLK, VA. RJ. MARC OUX HAMPTON, N.J. W H.M. ROTHE DECA Tuk, IL. M. W. MA NCIAS MOHN TON, PA. J.A. NA VARRO SA CAMENTO, CA. M.W. HALEY ' ENID. OKL. . 5.0. GREENLA W? PAusADEs PARK NJ. C.J. PURCELL EAST LAKE OH. C.H. HAR WELL C OPPELL TX. GROUP SHOT .l.L. KIEFFER GALENA IL. TB. PO WELL NASHVILLE TN. , N P.E. KELLEY EDMOND OKL. C.L. GIBSON - HUBBARD OH. K..l. HOWELL - ORANGE N.J. J.L. REID - SALISBURY SC. T. NELSON - BOSTON MASS. T. BUTLER - PELHAM GA. XWQCE NING Gfqrx x 'D . fe - Q' L? 1 IN 'Wx x L . l 3 5' J 75 . N, I E '-.: '-,...- ' U - Page -ALA v,A fx,- -,LE '1r:.'i? 't2 .l.S. PERSINGER KINGSPOR T TN, .. B. 71 L OF TUS M.D. SLENTZ R. G. WELSCH BRONX NY. EASTON LANCASTER PA. RAPIDS MI. Q 5 .Q Q A 508 W.E. TURNER - BIRMINGHAM AL. 1 I I I I I U I ji 5 I I I 3 OC DIVISION g? f-ii: it L.K. LANEY CLEVELAND TN D. SCROGGS. BAL WIN GA. ,l.S. HA YNES MOBILE AL .l.K. WAITES HUEYTWON AL ,...,,.,, 5 I A q Q 0.5. SMITH 1.0. o0EN 1.0. WHITE RUSSELL SPRINGS KY W. W. JOHNSON C.M. SA TTAZAHN CLEONA PA CHESAPEAKE W. VA GUNBARREL CITY TX N. S YRACUSE NY M2 00 ' 'H 000 ' - , 009 ' xx wb M 6 S gf ,. . Q, .. GROUP SHOT C.C. CHRISTIAN - HIRAM OH. RMCS WILDER - VA. BEACH VA. RMC WHEELER - VA BEACH VA. RMI THOMAS - WHITE PLAINS NY. rf gb f OE Dlvl IO E. V. PECK PENNELL VILLE, N Y M..l. B YER MELROSE, NY P.L. SA GSE TTER E.M. DOUGLAS NEW CANAAN, CONN R.D. SA YER FREEPORT, OH D.K. GAZA WA Y LOUISVILLE, KY GROUP SHOT E. V. PECK D.K. GAZA WA Y G.C. BRYANT - HOT SPRING, VA E.M. DOUGLAS MJ. B YER R.D. SA YER K.D. LITTLE - AUSTIN, TX R.D. MULLINS - EASTLAKE, OH LCDR BYERS - OPERATIONS OFFICER LT BISHOP - DALLAS, TX E. FORTINO - JACKSONVILLE BEACH, FL P.L. SAGSETTER S.B. FARLE Y -- KIMBALL TON, IO J 1 ' PEQFECTOE V5 -X . 4 , 6.!- f ' 1 'E'-Q 2 F MR. ADMXN 517, ., ., I r 13 3 om son-'xz Ne wf. 1 - M. J-id f Q V Q5 QQ? S 3 ' vs wumi n UGH' Rx f F7 wr A 1F'UM CANT ww, , - 'BEATXUM' - ' W' 1 Qi ?, gmoxcexumg 5 . O X'Xf?2,,,?f7M2g9 X X x'Y1 .': THEIR TEEN-1 WITH ' ' AA L7 MY wrzemcu? X uw O 8 S Y , 151 IE 4,,A 5 1 K rn! asv, ' -L QQ Pk V Q' .J 2 -....Z.. Q, an i x if THE .IOH KING REW G PRE-DEPLO YME T PICNIC ALL OF JOHN KlNG'5 WELFARE AND REC. E VENT5 ARE HANDLED WITH STYLE. THE PRE- DEVELOPMENT PICNIC WAS NO EXCEPTION. A 4, .,,T, A f ff. 'A f If f HERE'5 TO THE JOHN KING T THE MCKA Y 6 FIE5 T FAMIL Y WHA T FORM FROM OMGSN ROuSE ED LOPEZ AND ART WARREN HARD AT WORK A THE MORWSETTE FAIWL Y MMI STEEL E SON SHARE AT'EER. OK, YOU GOT ME A FRIENDL Y VOLLEYBALL GAME ,ff X y. x-ll fltjrf O Vx 1 33' ,.., , I f THE JOHNSON 8 GO VE FAMIL Y THE GANGS ALL HERE GAMES FOR THE KIDS U DER WAY ON MA Y 3I JOHN KING LEFT FOR THE MED, LEA VING BEHIND LOVED ONES AND FAMILIES. IT WAS A SAD MOMENT, AT TIMES PAINFUL, FOR SOME THE FIRST TIME OTHERS THE LAST BUT WE ALL LEFT WITH A PROMISE THAT WE WOULD RE- TURN. LAST GOOD-B YES COMMAND MAsrEk CHlEF'S LAST GOOD-B Y? 1 'DES TRO YERMAN HA VE AL WA YS BEEN A PROUD PEOPLE. THEY HA VE BEEN THE ELITE, THEY HA VE TO BE PROUD AND THEY HA VE TO BE ESPECIALL Y SELECTED, FOR DES TRO YER LIFE IS A RUGGED ONE. IT TAKES PHYSICAL STAMINA TO STAND UP UNDER THE RIGORS OF A TOSSING DD. IT TAKES EVEN MORE SPIRITUAL S TAMINA TO KEEP GOING WITH ENTHUSIASM WHEN YOU ARE TIRED AND FEEL THAT YOU AND YOUR SHIP ARE BEING USED AS A WORKHORSE. IT IS TRUE THAT MANY PEOPLE TAKE DES TRO YERS FOR GRANTED AND THA T IS ALL THE MORE REASON WHY DES TRO YERMEN CAN BE PROUD OF THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. ADMIRAL ARLEIGH A. BURKE U.S. NA VY - XELLLLL X gx . si ' ' 4 , .k-.kh X 1 AW my W! SQ X 'Tit W I,,, ,.I. ., - f ,,.., I ..,, I V M, , ,,,,,,,, ,,,,,. M ,I K, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, f , , N il!! Q ww .1Qxf , f WWWZ W I X 1, 2 f AN. A' X Z , , x , Z1 f I 0 - - - 2 MED CRUISE 3'89 TASK FORCE SHIPS IN COMPANY FRONT LEFT TO RIGHT: USS AYL WIN, USS VIRGINIA, USS SAN JACINTO, USS KLAKRING, USS GROTON, USS SHENANDOAH, USS BUTTE, USS SHREVEPORF USS CORAL SEA, USS MONONGAHELIA, USS BARNSTABLE COUNTK USS JOHN KING, USS NASSAU, USS KAUFFMAN, USS THOMAS S. GA TES, USS MISSISSIPPI, USS AINS WOR TH x. W4 X' Qxxw A ,W ' x , UM f s V ,A WQ W h W , 1 x x 1 www p WXX fl ' X f N f f N5-QQ!-Kew ' Q Q 'f :mx Q, X X. f X f ww -Q Xxnvk , mi sry 2 Q ws fx .M ,s .N .Q ,. .N X fx w yxg Xxx f 'mf HAIVSYSN , Avg , f wf mm 4 ,f x X ,f WI sk A WN X X X x ff X1 f Q X f V 91 ff QQN' X' W :W 4 ,vkxxxi I x Nmmgy-Ry . R. 1014 W1 ZWW 1- pig., , ,I Xxxxx M M Q , ,. ,,d3,MeQ N 5 P Q Q 3 NS , gn .,. inf.: Q,, :Q -f A' f - v--- ,ire 5 :,, ,X skmmxw .aww 4 WHA T NO ESWS? QHINK ABOUT ,T N FRESH AIR BREAK HERE TO SERVE WAITING IN LINE N X' THE NIGHT BEFORE T'WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE NORFOLK 5 ALL THRU THE SHIP, ENGINEERING STILL WORKING, CHENG'S CRACKIN THE WHIP. THE PLANTS WERE STILL S TEAMING WITH THE GREA TEST OF CARE, WHILE VISIONS OF DECOMM, DANCED THRU THE AIR. THE TWIDGE TS WERE NES TLED ALL SNUG IN THEIR RACKS, THE SNIPES WERE STILL S TEAMING, NO SMOKE IN THE S TACKS. WITH PRICE ON THROTTLES AND RA YNER ON TOP, STEADY S TEAMING THIS WA TCH, NO SAFE TIES WILL POP. WHEN UP ON THE FANTAIL, THERE AROSE SUCH A COMMO TION, YOU CAN SEE THE GLARE OF VIRGINIA BEACH, ITS LIGHTS ON THE OCEAN. AND WHA T TO MY WONDERING EYES SHOULD APPEAR, BUT THE MPA, SENIOR CHIEF, AND THE CHIEF ENGINEER, WITH HOMER ON BURNERS, SO LIVEL Y AND QUICK, THERE WASN'T A 'PROBLEM HE KNOWS EVERY TRICK. OVER THE TOPS OF THE DECK PLA TES THEY CAME, I HEARD MR. CARIKER CALL THEM BY NAME: NOW HERBERT, FR YE, BUSHEY, AND TAYLOR ON STANTON, ON ZAMORA, ON PRINGLE, 5 TYLER TO THE TOP OF THE PI TS, THEY HEARD CHENG CALL, NOW GET TO WORK, GET TO WORK, GET TO WORK ALL! S WIF TER THAN EAGLES WITH A .IOB LEFT TO DO, WENT MEEKS, JONES 8 PICKARD TOO THEN ON THE LOWER LEVEL WHAT DID I HEAR, THE DISCUSSION OF LIBERTY WHO'S BUYING THE BEER? AS CARPENTER PUT IN HIS EARPLUGS, 5 WAS TURNING AROUND DO WN THE LADDER CAME THE WARRANT WITH A BOUND, SECURING THE PLANT WITH ONE THOUGHT IN MIND, THE FIRES ARE OUT FOR THIS SHIP'S LAST TIME. THE EYES HOW THEY SPARKLED, ON THEIR FA CES THEY SHO WN. IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE, WE 'RE AC TUALL Y HOME. WITH THE CIGARETTE BUTT HELD TIGHT IN HIS TEE TH, CHIEF ATWOOD LOOKED ON WITH SLIGHT DISBELIEF. HE SAID NOT A WORD, BUT WENT UP TO THE MESS, TO SIT BACK AND TAKE A WELL- DESER VED REST. THEY RAN TO THE ASROC DECK TO LOOK ON THE PIER, WHO ELSE DID THEY SEE BUT THE CHIEF ENGINEER. I HEARD HIM EX CLAIM, AS HE WENT OUT OF SIGHT, LIBERTY CALL TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT! BY LANCE W. PRICE. o-A ff ,L ,ict I Q'S,o E A- W A X A w 1 M 'll 5 ' xg XM A A A F WD RIG CREW GO JOHNNY GO Z CO A D XO MAI TAI A CLOSE EYE if i' f' FW ,C X WX! iffy X f W YQ 1 CH an f 'T' ,K R lllllr MCC C, .h,,CCf 0 ,mm imma -MMC' 4 :VC MWX 'N C, 45 C aff ,YM 4 f ffflgwf, M C W- jx wxfCg-CC4-CQC, , Nuff wp WX 'Xfff FfVfM5f , CC fy, Ywxyxx If I C CC ,f 7, CJ,CCff,,fmCC a-CWM, CWC Q, f C f, I- A ,z, C ,, f , f C WCMCCW CC ffwmww W- WC AX W A rg, Cam W ff , C , C , of MI? X1 XWC XX ani? , , x daisy 1 ff, CC WC grim M -C fy5C:WCwf,CC41-Cwww gm WMX ff ,.ffCwmmnQC -Cf,x.CCwC w,..C W.. f ,CWC M..,CC.,f ,CCM ,, C C , f W6 2' AFT 5 FWD l.I E HANDLERS H, f C WC? Z, XCWEC CAC Q HW X mi CWA f XY 'SQA nf WX W C C A0 wfwf' f ws X f f , ,CQCKW W fQ!! 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CC x X C - .,,zf'm'w' - 1 -C f C 4 C- fa' Cr l 1:'2g.jY'j1 C, A 2 'C ,,-111 ff F mfvn,-,f..z,1 X f , JWQQW hiv W'f' iCQ,42, 3 ,-f F C U .. .4 Fi? M xg ,l 3,5 A' Q1-V ,, 'S , A Af zfxizfwv flwyw f M, X ,Q 'f1ffI.QS-f7 as 'fa RW ,fa V ! Jw 'kwa ff' W fw 4 A ETI KSWQD PECK FWD LINE CAPTAIN GMG2 WARNER AFT LINE CAPTAIN THE SHIPS BREAKA WA Y SONG IS GO JOHNNY GO BY CHUCK BERRY. SN WASH RE WROTE THE WORDS TO FIT THE JOHN KING STYLE GO JOHN KING GO YOURE LOOKING AT AN ADAMS CLASS DDG THE FINEST IN THE NA VY YOU'LL EVER SEE WE COME FROM NORFOLK DOWN VA. WAY WENT S TEAMING OUT OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY WHEN OUT ON A MISSION WE NEVER FAIL AND WE REPLENISH UNDER WA Y JUST LIKE RINGING A BELL GO, GO JOHN KING GO, GO JOHNNY GO GO GO JOHNNY GO, GO GO GO, GO JOHN KING, JOHNNY BE GOOD. THE CREW ON BOARD IS THE BEST AROUND AND OUR CO NEVER LETS US DOWN HE LETS US KNOW WHEN WERE REAL HOT AND HAS A WAY OF TELLING US WHEN WE'RE NOT BUT WERE ALL COMMITTED TO BEING NO. I WHETHER HUNTING SUBS OR FIRING THE GUNS CHORUS . . . THE ENGINEERS GIVE US MORE POWER THAN WE NEED THE SPEED OF SOUND WE COULD ALMOST EXCEED WE'RE HAPPIES T WHEN WERE CUTTING THROUGH WAVES LIKE SLICING BUTTER WITH A RAZOR BLADE ON TOP OF PMS WERE AL WA YS STA YED BUT IT HELPS WHEN A VESSEL IS SO WELL MADE CHORUS . . . STA YING FLEXIBLE IS OUR CLAIM TO FAME WHEN OTHERS FALL SHORT THEY CALL OUR NAME WHEN THERE'S AN OBLIGA TION TO SHOW OUR MIGHT JOHN KING WILL BE THERE DA Y OR NIGHT WE MIGHT BE OLD BUT WE SURE ARE STRONG SO MOVE OUT OF THE WAY WHEN YOU HEAR THIS SONG GO, GO JOHN KING GO, GO, JOHNNY GO GO GO JOHNNY GO: GO GO GO, GO JOHN KING, JOHNNY BE GOOD. FC3 GIOVANI ON THE JOB OSSN NELSON TAKES A BREAK Il THE TIN CAN COMMUNICA TOR I JUST GOT HERE TO RELIE VE THE WA TCH. NO THING IS HAPPENING, A T LEAST NOT MUCH. THE MAN A T THE DESK PASSES THE WORD. SO LISTEN IVIV FRIENDS FOR HERE' WHA T I HEARD, THE COFFEE IS FRESH, SO HA VE A CuP, ALL TRAFFIC IS OUT, THERE'S NO THING TO SEND, WE'VE GOT THE BEA CH FIVERS, GOT A CIGARETTE TO LEND? YOUR FREQS ARE SOLID, NO GEAR HAS GONE SOUR, WE HA VEN'T CHANGED ANYTHING FOR OVER AN HOUR, THE BRIDGE HAS BEEN QUIET, AND COMBA T'S ASLEEP THE PHONES HA VE BEEN QUIET, NARY A PEEP. THE LOG'S UP TO DA TE: ALL THE FILING IS DONE I'LL SEE You LA TER, I HOPE You HA VE EuNI AND WITH THOSE WORDS HE DID DEPART, LEA VING THE WA TCH WITH A VERY GOOD START. A MINUTE OR TWO HAS PASSED, SO IT SEEMS, WHEN IN WALKS THE OPS BOSS WITH MY FIRST TWO ROUTINES THEY HA VE TO GO QUICK, I DRAFTED THEM LA TE, SO TREAT THEM AS OBOES, THEY JUST CAN'T WAIT! YES SIR, I REPLIED, WE'LL GET RIGHT ON THEM. I DON'T BELIEVE WE'LL HA VE ANY PROBLEM. I LOGGED THEM IN AND SAID TO THE TAPE MAN, GO A GOOD JOB: GO AS FAST AS YOU CAN. HE SAID THAT HE WOULD, AND AS I FLICKED AN ASH THE BROADCAST MAN YELLED, HERE COMES A FLASH! ROUTE IT TO COMBAK THE BRIDGE, AND TO OPS, AND HURR Y UP BACK, MAKE NO OTHER S TOPS! HE GRABBED IT AND RAN, WAS TING NO TIME, AND THEN THE PHONE RANG, XO ON THE LINE. GOT AN OUTER DOWN HERE, CAN YOU COME DOWN AND GET IT? YES SIR, I REPLIED. I'LL BE THERE IN A MINUTE. TO THE WARDROOM I WENT, FOR AN OBOE NO DOUBT. AND WHEN I RETURNED, THE BROADCAST WAS OUT. THE BROADCAST MAN SAID THAT THE FREQS HAD GONE BAD, AND AT THAT POINT THINGS REALL Y LOOKED SAD. SO WE CHANGED THE FREQS, ANTENNAS AND THE RECEIVERS, THAN GOT IT BACK IN WITH ONL Y TWELVE MISSERS. THEN COMBAT CALLED DOWN, WE NEED A NEW CIRCUIT. SO I TUNED THE TRANSMITTER AND DRAF TED A SERVICE, PROOFED ALL THE OUTGOING, AND GOT THEM RELEASED, XO HAD ANOTHER, IT WAS REALLY A BEAST. TWENTY ADDEES, CAN'T FIND HALF THE ROUTERS, THEN IN WALKS THE SUPO WITH FOUR MORE DAMN OUTERS. WHEN THEY'LL GO OUTI CAN'T REALLY TELL. CAUSE RIGHT NOW SIR, WE'RE AS BUSY AS HELL! SEND THESE FOUR OUT, AND MAKE IT QUICK, SAID TO THE SHIP-SHORE MAN WHO WAS THEN SEASICK, BUT HE REPLIED THAT THERE WOULD BE A DELAY SINCE THE BEACH HAD JUST GONE DOWN FOR A NEW DA Y. I WONDERED WHAT ELSE COULD POSSIBL Y GO WRONG, BUT LUCKY FOR ME, WE DIDN'T WAIT LONG. FOR THE NEXT EVENT IN THIS STRANGE EPISODE CAME WHEN THE SNIPES DROPPED THE LOAD. WE LOSTA 23, A-7, AND THE 49 WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO ME ALL THE TIME ?! I CALLED THE ET'S AND LET OUTA YELPI MY GEAR'S BURNING UP, I'M GONNA NEED HELP! THE BRIDGE CALLED ON THE BOX, THEIR CIRCUITS WERE DOWN, I'M DOING MY BEST, I SAID WITH A FROWN. HELL O MOM THAN COMBAT CALLED AND SAID THE SAME, MY GOD, I THINK I'M GOING INSANE. WE BROUGHT ALL CIRCUITS UP, WITH MAXIMUM POWER, HA VEN'T LOOKED IN MY BASKET FOR OVER AN HOUR, PHONE RINGING AGAIN, XO NO DOUB T HE WANTS TO KNOW IF HIS TRAFFIC 'S GONE OUT OPS BOSS CALLED, HE'S GOT TWO MORE, SOMEONE IS KNOCKING AT THE DOOR. BROADCAST IS BACK, BUT GETTING TOUGH, WE'VE HIT A STORM AND THE SEAS ARE ROUGH, THE CHIEF WANTS TO SEE THE PUB CHECK-OFF LIST, LAST BROADCAST OUTAGE - 20 NUMBERS MISSED. THINGS ARE FALLING ALL OVER THE FLOOR, ONE OF THESE DA YS I'LL ANSWER THAT DOOR. IPLEAD, I BEG, PLEASE CUT ME SOME SLACK, WHY DID I EVER GET OUT OF MY RACK. MY OUTLOG BACKLOG IS NOW ELEVEN TAPE MAN'S BEEN ABLE TO CUT ONL Y SEVEN. MY INCOMINGS NOW NUMBER TWENTY-TWO, THIS PLACE REALL Y RESEMBLES A ZOO. GOT SIX MORE OBES TO RUN AROUND, AND THE SEAS ARE REALL Y BEGINNING TO POUND. THE STORM OUTSIDE MUST REALL Y BE MEAN, MY SHIP-SHORE MAN HAS JUST TURNED GREEN. THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THE STORM HAD PASSED. SHIP-SHORE MAN GOT THE BEACH AT LAS 71 BROADCAST IS BEGINNING TO LOOK REAL TIGHT. EVERYTHlNG'S STARTING TO LOOK ALL RIGHT. CLEARED OUTGOING TRAFFIC AND CLEANED UP THE FLOOR, EVEN GOT TO ANS WERING THE DOOR. SERVICE CAME IN WITH ALL NUMBERS MISSED, THEY FINALL Y SIGNED OFF THE PUB CHECK-OFF LISTZ SLOTTED ALL TRAFFIC AND ROUTE BOARDS TOO. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WE'VE ORU! MY RELIEF IS HERE TO RELIE VE THE WA TCH. NOTHING IS HAPPENING, AT LEAST NOT MUCI-L SITTING AT THE DESK, I PASS HIM THE WORD. SO LISTEN NOW FRIENDS, HERE'S WHAT WE HEARD. THE BROADCAST IS GOOD, ALL CIRCUITS ARE UP. THE COFFEE IS FRESH, SO HA VE A CUP. ALL TRAFFIC IS OUT, THERE'S NOTHING TO SEND. GOT THE BEACH FIVERS, GOT A CIGARETTE TO YOUR FREQS ARE SOLID, NO GEAR HAS GONE SOUR, IWCEJUHA VEN'T CHANGED ANYTHING FOR OVER AN R. THE BRIDGE HAS BEEN QUIET, AND COMBA TS ASL EEP. THE PHONE HA VE BEEN QUIET, NARV A PEEP. THE LOG'S UP TO DA TE, ALL THE FILING IS DONE. ILL SEE YOU LA TER, I HOPE YOU HA VE FUN! BY RM2 JAMES M. THOMAS USN CA TCH OF THE DA Y HI FROM QM2 SMITH COOKS TAKE A BREAK BUSY A T WORK MS3 CONEL Y X I XX, MX L Y X N W 1, j tg 5 Q N Chix iwiifqx f S I at F' 'V X ,f wwf' fx mf www K0 tiv A DAY AT THE BEACH A 1 R FK A ON WATCH RMCCSWQ HARD AT WORK ONE WA Y OF FIXING IT PMS NEVER ENDING 1 1 W I R I R ii 12 WL , I 2 1 H A? 5 5 I S 3 PI ,I N K 4 .IOH KING WARDROOM. fy ' 7? Q , , 11 , wi ' N ,1 , 1 ,qv H R N IN 23 . , N E or 5 Lf ,Eh - an 5 OPERA TIONS OFFICER ' WORKING? ' 54 1 I A QM 5 Ney 1, IS THIS GUY FOR REAL ? dx WHA T'S THIS? 'Qtr M Q SUPPL Y OFFICER A T THE GRILL. IUTJU 6 CHIEF PETTY OFFICER MESS O51 MESS COOK FOR A DAY 4 lm' N 'Qy' --Q , C l wk L. .T o Q . . '. , . AND emu' T0 cboflliff U I 1 I ii IW ii II . 1: II Ii ll LI I I 1 I I I I 3 ix - A il ' ii I ,Q -L AAA I A GOOD OLD FASHION 4TH OF JuL Y BASEBALL GAME. THE SPANISH CONNECTION SI 4TH OF .IULY 8 JOHN KING WAS ABLE TO Ii CELEBRA TE THE 4TH OF I JUL Y E BASTILLE DA Y THE I FRENCH INDEPENDENCE DA Y. 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EO OCEA NOGRAPHIC MUSEUM JOHN KING 5 MISSISSIPPI IN THE BA Y CAFE DE PARIS 1 555- 2 EAN H? SHIPS PARTY AT LE TEXAN CL O WNING AROUND JOHN KING BASEBALL TEAM AND FRIENDS WHO ME? ,,,, A -X X ww N V ,N N ff, TEEL BE CI-I 40' ' x PIC IC 'f U W DONfooe ? if M! gf 4 1 7-.. L M V5 F 9 2 ETI PECK AT THE GRILL S ,W 37 F E ET3 DOUGLES TAKES IN SOME RA YS -n MY BUDDY I E V fe 1 1 X H0+.,1,4 , I 'Q' ET3 MULLIN5 AND ET3 BRYANT N M E- BM2 C ORDRO S TINGER DA VID5 ON J M52 RUSSELL MIXES UP SOMETHING GOOD. .IUSTA LITTLE OFF THE TOP. Q? ,uf wk x if M SCOTTY H TFN HYDE I I I I 1 1 1 i I 1 i I I 4 I I I I 3 I I I I E1 WITH A NEW COMMANDING OFFICER, JOHN KING SET SAIL ON MA Y 25 FOR A TEN- WEEK NORTHERN EUROPE DEPLOYMENT. WHILE ON THIS NORTHERN EUROPE DEPLOYMENT JOHN KING TOOK PART IN OCEAN SAFARI AND EXECUTED UNDER WA Y REPLENISHMENTS SEVEN TIMES. ON I8 JUNE JOHN KING ARRIVED IN KIEL, GERMANY WHERE THE SHIP HOS TED SEVERAL REPRESENTATIVES BOTH FROM GERMAN AND AMERICAN NA VIES. AMONG THEM WERE ADMIRAL W.H. MCDONALD, THE COMMANDER OF THE SUPREME ALLIED COMMAND, ATLANTIC. ON 27 JUNE JOHN KING DEPARTED KIEL, ENROUTE TO ANTWERP, BELGIUM, ARRIVING IN ANTWERP ON 4 JUL Y. DURING THE SHIP'S STAY THE SHIP PLAYED HOST TO OVER 35CX7 VISITORS. THE SHIP DEPARTED ANTWERP ON 8 JUL Y FOR EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND WHERE SHE ARRIVED ON 9 JUL Y. AFTER A TWO DA Y STA Y IN EDINBURGH JOHN KING DEPARTED BOUND' FOR NORFOLK ARRIVING ON 5 AUGUST JOHN KING ENTERED A SELECTED RESTRICTED A VAILABILITY ON I9 SEPTEMBER I983 AT THE NORFOLK NA VAL SHIP YARD. THE SHIP REMAINED IN THE SHIPYARD UNTIL 3 NOVEMBER, COMPLETING MAJOR REPAIRS AND UPKEEP. THE YEAR I984 WAS A BUSY ONE FOR JOHN KING. THE SHIP OVERCAME MAJOR REPAIRS, WENT ON TO TRAIN A PREDOMINANTL Y NEW CREW, AND FINALL Y PUT FORTH A MAXIMUM EFFORT FOR A MAJOR INDIAN OCEAN DEPLOYMENT. I984 BEGAN WITH REFRESHER TRAINING IN GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA ON I9 JANUARY, BUT TRAINING NEVER REALL Y GOT OFF THE GROUND DUE TO A CASUAL TY TO THE SHIP'S FORWARD SONAR DOME. SHE ENTERED DR YDOCK ON 4 FEBRUARY AT THE NORFOLK SHIPYARD. JOHN KING RETURNED TO THE NA VAL STATION ON 25 FEBRUARY, UNDER WENT SEA TRAILS AND SE T SAIL FOR GUANTANAMO BA Y ON I4 MARCH, ARRIVING ON I7 MARCH. SHE COMPLETED REFRESHER TRAINING ON I3 APRIL AND THEN ON TO A COMPTUEX EXERCISE. UPON COMPLETION OF COMPTUEX JOHN KING MOORED AT THE NA VAL STA TION ANNEX, BERMUDA ON 2I APRIL. AFTER THREE DA YS OF FUN IN THE SUN, JOHN KING WAS UNDER WA Y FOR HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. HALIFAX WOULD BE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR GREAT LIBERTY, BUT IT WOULD ALSO BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR JOHN KING TO REPRESENT THE UNITED STA TES IN OPERATIONS WITH THE CANADIAN NA VAL FORCES. ON 26 APRIL, THE SHIP PULLED IN TO THE CANADIAN NA VAL DOCK YARDS, HALIFAX, NOVIA SCOTIA. THE WARMTH OF THE CANADIAN'S HOSPITALITY MADE UP FOR THE COLD WEATHER. JOHN KING LEFT HALIFAX ON 30 APRIL WITH SEVERAL CANADIAN NA VAL VESSELS FOR SOUADEX C COMMAND SOUADRON EXERCISEQ. JOHN KING RETURNED TO NORFOLK ON I0 MA Y AFTER AN UNSCHEDULED STOP AT THE NA VAL EDUCATION TRAINING CENTER NEWPORT R.l. - THROUGHOUT MA Y OF 84 PREPARA TIONS WERE MADE FOR AN UPCOMING CARIBBEAN CRUISE WHICH JOHN KING SET SAIL FOR ON 5 JUNE. THE FIRST STOP OF THIS CRUISE WAS LIMON, COSTA RICA, ARRIVING ON II JUNE. ON I2 JUNE A V.I.P. LUNCHEON WAS HELD ONBOARD FOR THE GOVERNOR OF LIMON PROVINCE, AND FOR THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO COSTA RICA. THE SHIP LEFT LIMON ON I5 JUNE FOR COLON, PANAMA TO REFUEL. AFTER REFUELING JOHN KING HEADED FOR WILLEMS TAD, CURACAO. ARRIVING ON I9 JUNE, JOHN KING SPENT FOUR DA YS IN WILLEMS TAD. THE DUTCH ISLAND PROVIDED ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CREW MEMBERS TO TAKE IN THE CARIBBEAN SUN. THE SHIP LEFT CURACAO ON 22 JUNE FOR SANTO DOMINGO. ARRIVING ON 24 JUNE AND DEPARTING ON 26 JUNE, ARRIVING BACK TO NORFOLK ON 29 JUNE. UPON ARRIVAL IN NORFOLK THE SHIP CONDUC TED VARIOUS INSPECTIONS AND TRAINING UNDER WA Y PERIODS TO KEY WEST, AND PORT E VERGLADES FLORIDA. THE SHIP BEGAN PREPARA TIONS FOR READEX 2-84 CREADINESS EXERCISEQ ON 20 AUGUST. AFTER A AMMUNITION ON LOAD AND A OVER NIGHT ANCHORAGE JOHN KING COMMENCED READEX UNDER THE CONTROL OF COMMANDER CRUISER DES TRO YER GROUP TWO. DURING THE LZXERCISE, THE SHIP FIRED A TORPEDO AND CONDUC TED A MISSLEX, FIRING ONE MISSILE. JOHN KING RETURNED TO HOMEPORT ON 7 EPTEMBER. THE BALANCE OF SEPTEMBER AND FIRST PART OF OCTOBER WAS SPENT MAKING PREPARA TIONS FOR THE INDIAN OCEAN DEPLOYMENT. JOHN KING LEFT NORFOLK ON I6 OCTOBER I984 TO BEGIN ITS TRANSIT TO THE INDIAN OCEAN WITH THE USS INDEPENDENCE BATTLE GROUP, COMMANDED BY COMMANDER CRUISER DESTRO YER GROUP TWO. ON 8 NOVEMBER, JOHN KING TRANSITED THE SUEZ CANAL. AFTER CROSSING THE RED SEA, THE SHIP TRANSITED THE BAB EL MANDEB S TRAI TS ON II NOVEMBER AND PROCEEDED INTO THE INDIAN OCEAN. WHILE IN THE IO JOHN KING WAS ENGAGED IN A SERIES OF EXERCISES SUCH AS ACTING AS TAKING NORTH PICKET STATION. THE SHIP ALSO CONDUC TED EXERCISES WITH THE FRENCH NA VAL VESSEL, VICTOR SCHOELCHER. EVEN THOUGH ALL HANDS WERE WORKING HARD, TIME WAS SET ASIDE TO CELEBRA TE THE HOLIDAYS. AT THANKSGIVING A USO-DOD SHOW JOHN KING IN WIUEMSTAD, CURA CAO Jufvg 84 'SIZZLING HOT WAS PERFORMED ON JOHN KING'S OI LEVEL AFT CHRISTMAS DAY BATTLE GROUP WAS DIRECTED TO SINGAPORE FOR A NEW YEAR'S P HELD A SURPRISE' THOUGH OUT AT SEA FROM HOME' THE ORT VISIT THE SHIP PULLED INTO SEMBA WA NG PORT SINGAPORE ON 29 D5?lf:I5il5NgHgEf:51IgTEZAQINEL-fpgifg-3213if2CfvI2f4CielRLEZ98g.2Z?4cgLj1ASDCfZ31f?fB5J4xg CHEERLEADERS CAME ONBOARD FOR AUTOGRAPHS SUEZ CA NORFOLK ON 20 JA NUM, Y, NAL AND HER RETURN TRIP. JOHN KING ARRIVED BA CK IN FROM FEBRUARY TO JUL Y OF I985 THE SHIP CONDUC TED INPOR T AND UNDER WA Y COMMANDER BISHOP A5 COMMANDING OFFICER, TRAINING. IN JUNE I985 COMMANDER T,H. SMITH RELIEVED IN JUL Y JOHN KING EN TERED A RESTRICTED A VAILABILITY WITH A NUMBER OF NORFOLK AREA S HORE AND SEA REP . RA V564 THROUGHOUT I985 AND INTO MOST OF I986. DURING THE RA V THE ENGINEERING PLANT RECEIVED A GREQAIT ATT - AS I986 CAME TO A CLOSE THE SHIP WAS ABLE TO MAKE REPAIRS TO HER ENGINEERING PLANT AND IN SEPTEMBER THE SHIP LEFT FOR REERESHER TRAINING IN GUANTA NAMO BA Y, CUBA. THIS WAS A VERY DEMANDING AND CHALLENGING PERIOD SINCE MANY OF THE SHIPS CREW MEMBERS HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED THE RIGORS OF SHIPBOARD DUTY. AFTER DAIL Y EXERCISES IN GUNNER Y, DAMAGE CONTROL, COMMICA TIONS, AND ENGINEERING JOHN KING WAS READY TO DEPART TO CONDUCT LEGAL OPERA TIONS. ON 2 DECEMBER I986 JOHN KING DEPAR TED NORFOLK FOR LEGAL OPERA TIONS. WITH COMCARIB FOUR AND STAFF CA COAST GUARD DETACHMENT2 ONBOARD THE JOHN KING CONDUC TED SURVALLIANCE OF BOAT OPERATIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN FOR HER PARTICIPATION SH E WAS Q WARDED THE COAST GUARD MERITORIOUS UNIT WITH THE SHE RE TUNED TO NORFOLK ON 2I DECEMBER FOR CHRISTMAS STAND DOW . I987 WAS A MORE RE WARDING YEAR FOR THE SHIP. ON 9 FEBRUARY THE SHIP GOT UNDER WA Y FOR A 36 DA Y CARIBBEAN OPERA TION PERIOD. AL THOUGH THE TRIP HAD A VERY GOOD LIBERTY PORT SCHEDULE SUCH AS FORT LA UDERDALE, NASSA U, AND PORT DE FRA NCE, MARTINIQUE, THE EXERCISE WAS PROEESSIONALL Y RE WARDING AS WELL. ON 29 APRIL JOHN KING GOT UNDER WA Y FOR A RETURN TRIP TO MAINE WHERE THE SHIP WAS BUIL T 26 YEARS AGO. THIS TIME THE VIST WAS TO THE BA TH IRON WORKS FACILITIES IN POR TLA ND INSTEAD OF THOSE IN BA TH WHERE THE REEL WAS LAID. THE SHIP ENTERED PORTLAND ON I MA Y AND STA YED UNTIL 5 MA Y, RETURNING TO NORFOLK ON G MA Y. UPON RETURNING TO NORFOLK JOHN KING PREPARED FOR BASIC FLEETEX 2-87 WHICH BEGAN ON II MA Y. COMDERSRON TWENTY AND HIS STAFF WERE EMBARKED. THE ELEVEN DA Y EXERCISE INCLUDED REEUELING A T SEA, ON LOADING AMMUNITION A T SEA, EORMA TION STEAMING, GUNNERY AND MISSILE EXERCISES. WITH RETURNING TO NORFOLK THE SHIP BEGAN THE EINAL PHASE OF PREPARA TIONS FOR THE UPCOMING DEPLOYMENT OF UNITAS 28. WITH COMDESRON TWENTY EMBARKED JOHN KING WAS UNDER WA Y FOR UNITAS 28 ON 20 JUL Y. THE SHIP STEAMED INDEPENDENTL Y TO ROOSE VEL T ROADS, ARRIVING 24 JUL Y. UPON ARRIVAL INPOR T THE SOUADRON AND SHIP WERE PLACED UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE UNITED STA TES COMMANDER SOUTH ATLANTIC CUSCOMSOLANTQ. THE TASK FORCE OPERA TED FOR THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS WHILE S TEAMING AROUND SOUTH AMERICA WITH THE NA VIES OF SOUTH AMERICA. THE MISSION OF UNI TAS 28 WAS TO CONDUCT COMBINED TA C TICAL OPERATIONS IN CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN WATERS, EMPHASIZING TAC TICAL IN TEROPERABILI TY AND PROVIDING WARFARE AREAS CROSS TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES WITH PARTICIPATING SOUTH AMERICAN NA VIES. SOME OF THE PORTS VISITED DURING UNITAS 28 WERE RIO DE JANEIRO. BRAZIL: MONTE VIDEO, URUGUA Y. TALCAHUANO AND VALPARAISO CHILEJ CALLAO, PERM MANTA, ECUADOR: TRANSIT PANAMA CANAL: CARTEGENA, COLUMBIA: MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA. JOHN KING WAS RELEASED FROM DUTIES BY USCOMSOLANT ON 7 DECEMBER. ON 9 DECEMBER COMMANDER TH. SMITH WAS RELIEVED AS COMMANDING OFFICER BY COMMANDER RICHARD I-I FUNKE, ONE DA Y PRIOR TO RE TURNING FROM DEPLOYMENT UPON RETURN TO HOME PORT THE CREW BEGAN A LEA VE AND UPKEEP PERIOD TO THE END OF THE YEAR. l988 WAS THE TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF SERVICE FOR JOHN KING, AND WAS MARKED BY A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION PROPULSION PLANT EXAMINATION AND A WELL EARNED REST IN THE SHIP YARD. THE FIRST MONTH OF I988 WAS SPENT IN HOMEPOR T AS PART OF LEA VE AND UPKEEP. FEBRUARY AND MARCH WERE SPENT PREPARING FOR AND PASSING OPPE. AFTER OPPE, THE SHIP BEGAN LOOKING TO WARD THE SHIP'S SCHEDULED DOCKING SHIP YARD A VAILABILI TY AT METRO MACHINE SHIP YARD. WITH OFF LOAD BEING COMPLETED ON 30 MARCH IN EARLE, NEW JERSEY JOHN KING SET SAIL FOR PORTSMOUTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. WITH OVER 2LXD VISITORS. THE CREW ENJO YED A NEW ENGLAND PORT VISIT ON I APRIL TO 5 APRIL. RE TURNING TO NORFOLK ON 8 APRIL. ON 3 MA Y, JOHN KING EN TERED METRO MACHINE CORPORATION SHIP YARD FOR WHA T WAS TO BE A MULL TI-MILLION DOLLAR, TWENTY- THREE WEEK OVERHAUL. SIGNIFICANT REPAIRS INCL UDED: COMPLETE BOILER OVERHAULS, REPLACEMENT OF THE MISSILE LAUNCHER WITH REBUIL T EQUIPMEN71 NUMEROUS ENGINEERING SUPPORT EQUIPMENT WORK. ON 20 OCTOBER, JOHN KING SAILED FROM METRO MACHINE ON POST SHIP YARD SEA TRAILS AND RETURNED TO NORFOLK NA VAL BASE THE NEXT DA K JOHN KING REMAINED IN NORFOLK UNTIL 29 NOVEMBER WHEN SHE JOINED OTHER DESRON TWO SHIPS FOR TYPE COMMANDER'S TEAM TRAINER I TC TT I-892. SHE RETURNED TO HOME PORT ON I6 DECEMBER FOR HOLIDA Y LEA VE AND UPKEEP. I989 STARTED OUT ON A FAST PACE FOR JOHN KING. WITHIN THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THE NEW YEAR SHE UNDERWENT MANY MAJOR INSPECTIONS. AMONG THEM WERE A 3M INSPECTION, COMBA T SYSTEMS E VALUA TION, OPPE AND COMMAND INSPECTION, AS AL WA YS JOHN KING SUCCESSFULL Y PASSED THEM ALL. JOHN KING ALSO TOOK PART IN FLEET-EX 2-89 AND 3-89 MAKING PREPARA TIONS FOR HER UPCOMING FINAL MEDITERRA NEAN DEPL O YMENT. JOHN KING SET SAIL ON 3I MA Y FOR HER FINAL MEDITERRANEAN DEPLOYMENT WITH THE CORAL SEA BATTLE GROUP. JOHN KING WAS SCHEDULED TO VISIT MANY NEW PORTS SUCH AS SE VAS TOPOL, RUSSIA. HOWEVER JOHN KING WAS CALLED TO THE COAST OF LEBANON WHILE OFF THE COAST OF LEBANON, JOHN KING PERFORMED AS WELL AND EVEN BETTER THAN OTHER SHIPS HALF HER AGE. JOHN KING RETURNED HOME TO NORFOLK FOR THE LAST TIME ON I0 NOVEMBER. ENROUTE SHE AGAIN PRO VED HER YOUTH BY REA CHING 8 TURNS OVER 33 KNOTS DURING FULL POWER RUN, EX CEEDING BUILDERS TRIAL SPEED AS TERN, AND FIRING 40 2 GUNS RAPID CONTINUOUS SAL VOES. OVER 40 CREW MEMBERS COMPLETED THEIR ES WS OUALIFICA TION SEJOHN KING IS SCHEDULED FOR DECOMMISSIONING ON 30 MARCH I990 SHE WILL SOREL Y BE MISSED BY ALL THAT HAD THE PLEASURE OF RVING ON HER. SMITH AND WASH REPORT 3,203,531 GALS. BURNED 80 ' n ' ww- 'H' My---------R I ,.,, 2 4, -. .fm U- 18.5 f.-fxqm, ripe' V9 V HP? 52. zz THE BAILEY GANG EL MAKING UP TO BENO BUOY Q I Q 'M .M ,K Wmff 4 f I xL '5 ,.fA. I I , '1' .X . , Q32 X 5255 x OUR SO VIE T C OUN TERPAR T AXAQQ. ,. 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ROOSEVEL T ROADS, PUERTO RICO SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC KINGSTON, JAMAICA LIVORNO, ITAL Y TORANTO, ITAL Y NAPLES, ITAL Y CA TANIA, SICIL Y A THENS, GREECE GREEK ISLAND OF DHIES, GREECE VALE TTA, MAL TA KIEL, GERMANY NAR VIK, NOR WA Y S71 THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND YORK TO WN, VIRGINIA PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA MA YPOR T, FLORIDA MONTEGO BA Y, JAMAICA ANCONA, ITAL Y BARI, ITAL Y BARCELONA, SPAIN SAN RAPHAIL, FRANCE ALICANTE, SPAIN VALENCIA, SPAIN ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN BIZERTE, TUNISIA ST CROIX, VIRGIN ISLANDS OCHO RIOS, JAMAICA MARSEILLE, FRANCE GENOA, ITAL Y RAPALLO, ITAL Y BEAULIEU, FRANCE VILLE FRANCHE, FRANCE SOUSSE, FRANCE ANTAL YA, TURKEY CORFU, GREECE VENICE, ITAL Y FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA IZMIR, TURKEY SKARAMANGA, GREECE KA VALLA, GREECE AUGUSTA BA Y, SICIL Y LISBON, PORTUGAL ROTTERDAM, HOLLAND KRISTIANSAND, NOR WA Y PANAMA CANAL MANZANILLO, MEXICO PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII MID WA Y ISLANDS, GUAM SUBIC BAY, PHILIPPINES SASEBO, JAPAN KEEL UNG, TAIWAN HONG KONG, JAPAN YOKOSUKA, JAPAN ARENDAL, NOR WA Y GOTEBERG, SWEDEN PL YMOUTH, ENGLAND PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI WEST PALM BEA CH, FLORIDA BRINDISE, ITAL Y KALAMA TA, GREECE SFAX, TUNISIA PIRAE W, GREECE ZAKINTHOS, GREECE ASHDOD, ISRAEL SAN REMO, ITAL Y TARRAGONA, SPAIN C OPENHA GEN, NOR WA Y PHILADELPHIA, PENNS YL VA NIA PORT E VERGLADES, FLORIDA NA VAL STA TION ANNEX, BERMUDA HAIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA ANTWERP, BEL GUIM EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND EARLE, NEW JERSEY LIMON, COSTA RICA COL ON, PANAMA WILLEMSTAD, CURACAO SUEZ CANAL SEMBA WANG PORT, SINGAPORE NA SSA U,' BAHAMAS PORT DE FRANCE, MARTINIQUE BRIDGE TO WN, BARBADOS ISLANDS RECIFE, BRAZIL SAL VADOR, BRAZIL RIO DE JANIRO, BRAZIL MONTE VIDEO, URA GUA Y PUNTA ARENAS, CHILE PUERTO MONTT, CHILE DURING JOHN KING S TWENTY NINE YEARS OF BEING UNDER WA Y THE SHIP HAS VISI TED II5 DIFFERENT PORTS THE FOLLOWING ARE THE PORTS IN ORDER THA T SHE FIRST VISI TED THEM TALCAHUANO, CHILE VALPARAISO, CHILE CALLAO, PERU MANTA, ECUADOR RODMAN, PANAMA CAREGENA, COLUMBIA MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA PUER TO CABEL L O, VENEZUELA PORTSMOUTH, NE W HAMPSHIRE THE GREAT JOHN KING SURVEY WHA T WAS YOUR MOST ENJO YABLE MEMORY OF THE CRUISE? WALKING THROUGH THE LOU- VRE - A DREAM COME TRUE, TOUL ON, TURKISH PORT VISITS, RE TURNING TO NORFOLK, THE CREW OF THE JOHN KING IZMIR TURKEY, PARIS, BEING PART OF THE CREW OF THE .IOHN KING'S LAST CRUISE, THE ENTIRE CRUISE, NOTHING, AN- TAL YA TURKEY, AFTERNOON NAPS, PLA YING SOFTBALL, CANNES, TAKING OVER THE COUCH IN SIGNAL SHACK, THE GUT, D.C. OL YMPICS. WHA T WAS YOUR WORST EXPERIENCE? LOSING A SOFTBALL GAME TO THE SHENAN- DOAH, TUNSIA, TOO MANY FRENCH PORTS, MAIL SYSTEM, UNKNOWN DES TINA TIONS, LEA V- ING NORFOLK, BROKEN XEROX COPIERS, WORK- ING ON WA TER TIGHT DOORS, NO PIER SIDE DOCKING, BENO STATION, WAITING OFF THE COAST OF LEBANON, EVERYTHING, STA YING IN THE 4W GRID STA TION GOING IN CIRCLES, BEING UNDER WA Y FOR OVER 30 DA YS, BEING BUMPED FROM THE RUSSIAN PORT CALL, WAKING UP FOR MY WA TCH, NO MISSILE SHOO71 50 CAL WA TCH, ALL THE S WEA T-EX'S, NO FRESH MILK, HOTDOGS IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT THE CRUISE WHAT WOULD IT BE ? ' NO TUNSIA PORT VISIT, MAIL TOP PRIORITK ONE PORT VISIT PER COUNTRK MORE LIBERTY PORTS, NOT TO GO ON THIS MED. CRUISE, LESS HOT DOGS, TO BE 'HOME ON SEPTEMBER 362 GROOM WEAPON SYSTEMS PRIOR TO CRUISE, A MORE STABLE SCHEDULE, HA VE NO S TINGERS, LESS CONREPS, MO VE OUT OF M5B BER THING, HA VE MORE FREE TIME FOR MYSELF, GO TO RUS- SIA, NOT EXTENDED ON BOARD FOR CRUISE IN HOPE OF GOING TO RUSSIA. Rf' 3 dvancement + Selections NIV ..,- X' EWSTSWQ PO WELL IS CARRIED ENLISTED SURFACE WARFARE QUALIFIERS E TCSC S W2 FOR TINO EMCIS W2 ZUHLSDORF ENCCS W2 JOHNSON MSC I S W2 CERMAK SKICS W2 KLINGENSMITH MSICS W2 FARBER GM SW MIC 2 MORRIS ETIKSW2 PECK PCIISW2 SMITH FCICSW2 SHIIELDS FCICS W2 THOMPSON OSICSW2 HART FCICSW2 ARNOLD GMOJISWQ HARTER EWJISWQ MANCIAS DCQIS W2 COX MMJC S W2 NE WMAN D 2 R TSWQ MCKINLEY FCJCSW2 MITCHELL OSJCS W2 KIFFER GMMJCS W2 WARNER OSJKS W2 GREENLA W OSQC S W2 GIBSON SMJKS W2 LANE Y EW3CSW2 POWELL FC3I S W2 ENGER T MM3C S W2 SLA UGH TER IC3fS W2 PRICE OS3C S W2 PERSINGER BM3C S W2 PICKE TT IC3K S W2 RABB OS3C S W2 C OGAR MM3ISW2 BRADLEY MM3I S W2 FR YE FC3ISW2 WILKS BM3fS W2 HOKE FC3fS W2 THOMAS FCSNCS W2 JENNINGS FCSNIS W2 NAPIER BMSNIS W2 SEARLES OSSNCS W2 RO THE SURFACE WARFARE OFFICER OUALIFIERS L T HOPPES L T. MOL CHAN Y L TJG. CARIK ER ENS. BA GGE TT AD VA N CEMEN TS BTIIS W2 CHARLES M. JENNINGS TO BTCIS W2 OSIISW2 MARK L. HALSTEN TO OSCCSW2 DCIIS W2 MICHAEL J. MORRISETTE TO DCCKSW2 MMQCS W2 GEORGE RA YNER TO MMICS W2 HT2 KENNETH FREDRICKSON TO HTI PC2 SMITH TO PCIIS W2 SMITH KCAP2 RM3 CHRIS CHRISTIAN TO RM2 ET3 SCOTT FARLEY TO ET2 BM3 HENRY C ORDERO TO BM2 MSSN VALENTINO COX TO M53 MSSN SAMMIE CONLE Y TO MS3 OSSN CHRIS PURCELL TO OS3 BTFN CHARLES HOMER TO BT3 HM PETER MARCHIONE TO HM3 EMFN DALE BE TTS TO EM3 EMFN JOHN RABB TO EM3 OMSN KEVIN HAMMER TO OM3 QMSN RONALD MYERS TO QM3 MMFN UNDRA PICKARD TO MM3 EMFN BRIAN HUSSE Y TO EM3 MMFN RICHARD STEPHEN TO MM3 BTFN CARLOS ZAMORA TO B T3 OSSN DANIEL JUAN NA VARRO TO OS3 SN DANIEL BLANCHARD TO BM3 SN MICHAEL BATTLE TO BM3 ENFN MICHAEL GRAHAM TO EN3 EWSN THOMAS POWELL TO EW3fSW2 A V- A 7- 3 KW 9 2'-S K a w X1 'Q -Fixx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lON'S HISTORY, MEN AND WOMEN HA VE ANSWERED THE CALL TO DUTY. FOR MANY THIS CALL BECOMES A WA Y OF LIFE, BECAUSE OF THEIR COMMITMENT, AMERICANS CAN CONTINUE TO LIVE AS THEY AL WA YS HA VE - IN FREEDOM. OUR CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS TO THEM ALL. DURING THE CRUISE JOHN KING HAD I3 REENLISTMENTS BT3TSWQ CA TES - 9 JUNE GMCCSWJ COURTNEY - I7 AUGUST FCCCSWQ DREES - I7 AUGUST MMIKSWQ RA YNER - 2l AUGUST IC2ISWy BARTLETT - 3 SEPTEMBER MSITSWQ PRICE - I7 SEPTEMBER BM3 BLA NCHARD - 23 SEPTEMBER MS3 FREDERICKSON - 2 OCTOBER FC3 CAIN - 2 OCTOBER SHI FIEST - IO OCTOBER MMCTSWQ ATWOOD - 24 OCTOBER BT3 HOMER - 3 NOVEMBER RMCCSWQ WHEELER - 4 NOVEMBER 85 11 1, 11 ll 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 11 11 1 1 1 ,, 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 13 4. 1 1, 1 13 If 13 1 1. 11 1 1, V 1 1 lf. I FOR THE RECORD .IOH KING if W iw 1 , 7 S TEAMED 35,928 ENGINE MILES BURNED APPROXIMA TEL Y 3,203,531 GALL ONS OF FUEL MADE L58Q070 GALLONS OF POTABLE WA TER AMASSED 2,880 HOURS UNDER WA Y AND 1,032 HOURS INPORT EXPENDED 451 ROUNDS THROUGH HER 5 IINCHQ GUNS CONSUMED 27,510 HOT DOGS, 9,450 SODAS DID OVER 50 TONS OF LAUNDRY PREPARED OVER 3,5CD SUPPL Y REQUISITIONS MAILED OUT IIQH LBS., RECEIVED l5QCXD LBS. aw-NWS FA THERS TO BE MICHAEL 8 LAURA RYAN BABY DUE ll DECEMBER l989 NAMES: BO Y: MICHAEL JAMES GIRL: LAUREN LOUISE DAN 5 LINDA DREES BABY DUE 23 FEBRUAR Y l990 NAMES: BO Y: JAMES ALLEN. GIRL: ALLISON MARIE. CHILDREN IS GODS WA Y OF SA YING THA T THE WORLD MUST GO ON. NL SPECIAL .LI ..s- NE W FATHERS 2 IcRIsTIN CARROLL NICHOLSON ffm, BORN TO: 76 JAMES E MARGRET NICHOLSON I 1' E -,, I .gt ON: , 'IE Q1 IAUGUST I9s9 ., I f : Q 'Isl WEIGHT: ,I I , I 1 V 9 LBS: ll Ozs. a N3 N' 1' vu ' 5 KEVIN CHRISTOHER NARIER BORN TO: 'l KEVIN E STEVONN NAPIER t ., ON: OCZ LU E Lgge 23 Aueusr I9s9 :E A UIQ. H I IIB R! I WEIGHT: , 2,2 0 ' 7LBS. I3 Ozs. Q MAEGAN ROSE HARTLEY fu P I 1 I BORN TO: 4 .- Y I- I SI 2 5 I R94 . 'hh I' 'x DELI VERIE HOWARD 5 PATRICIA HARTLE Y ON: 26 AUGUST l989 WEIGHT: 9 LBS. 4 OZS. 87 HOW DO YOU SPELL RELIEF? BARNEY OU CHOP JOHN KING WAS RELIEVED BY THE USS BARNEY. ON OCTOBER 3l. WITH THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR IN OUR WAKE WE STARTED OUR TRANSIT HOME. THOUGHTS OF HOME WERE AL WA YS WITH US. TO HELP PASS THE LONG HOURS MASTER CHIEF JONES PROVIDED THE CREW WITH SOME EXTRA ACTIVITIES SUCH AS ARM WRESTLING CONTES71 JEOPARDY NIGHT, AND BINGO. THE CREW ALSO ENJOYED THE COMPANY OF THE RETURN AND REUNION TEAM. MM3 BUL TON AND Mssfv CLIFFORD so AT IT OUR ARM WRE57'UNC5 CHAMP. STINGERS OFFL OAD CARD GAMES HELP PASS THE TIME ON THE RETURN TRANSIT HOME CHESS MA TCHS WERE HEL D. A .IEOPARDY NIGHT FOR ALL OUR FOUR FINA,-IST ON THE LAST DA Y THE WEATHER TURNED AGAINST US BINGO, PIZZA AND ALL NIGHT MOVIES HELP PASS THE CHANNEL FEVER NOVEMBER BRITHDA Y CAKE MADE BY MSICSWQ ENJO YING BRITHDA Y CAKE. FARBER JOHN KING LIVES ON THE NEW SPRIT WHILE WE WERE A WA Y . . . THE FAMIL Y SUPPORT GROUP KEPT THINGS GOING FOR US ON THE HOME FRON71 ACTIVITIES DONE INCLUDED A TRIP TO THE ZOO, A PICNIC, HALF- WAY NIGHT CRUISE ON THE NEW SPRIT. THE FAMIL Y SUPPORT GROUP WAS ALSO THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND OUR HOMECOMING. SPECIAL THANKS TO SANDY PRICE, LISA SOMERVILLE, AND LILL Y WHEELER. HOME OMING , f. ff W V ff Q'f'K97f I Tiff! wil? 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JOHN KING'S SIX MONTH CRUISE HAD COME TO A CLOSE. MANNING THE RAILS AND SEARCHING THE CRO WDED PIER BELOW FOR A FAMILIAR FACE, ALL HANDS SHARED IN THE EXCITEMENT OF HOMECOMING. AL THOUGH SHIPS BEL ONG A T SEA AND THE BEGINNING OF A VO YA GE GEN- ERA TES GREA T EXPEC TA TIONS, THERE I ALSO A SPECIAL SA TISFA C TION FEL T B Y MARINERS UPON SAFEL Y RE TURNING HOME. A A 1 ARRA A J X- ,f W , ff! WMM ff .ff f, . . E ff fix ly ' ' A ' 'fp MQW A PLANE WITH BANNER DISPLA vs A MESSAGE FROM OUR LOVED ONES HW, 5 WW W MA NNING THE RA IL EVERYONE TOPSIDE FOR HOMECOMING N. JE ,W I uwwvxr . .. f ,, , nf- H KM. vm- I I M ,A - 'A' -- V E. I , K M. ,L i f gf 7 1 ' ,E ' E A ?i4:iw ' ,If 'T I f 1 4 ' E -f - ,ff X' 'QT ' . 1 ,,,,. ' fy W Q A 74 X A TUG GA VE THE SHIP A WA TER SHOW A TUG MAKES UP . E, 1 -'X-arf- R EM COAST GUARD STA TION JOHN KING COMES INTO VIEW JOHN KING BACK5 DOWN ..N I , X .. r ' ix sae?-'V Y 115' Q3 myavfw' k fm W Ki Q, .,y.'fr 1-1 ,:9'1.?A+ I L- xIII.II... 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