John Thomason (DD 760) - Naval Cruise Book

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G Division has had its high and low points this past cruise, and we're not talking about the water level in 1553 magazine. The high points came when ammunition was on and off-loaded so expeditiously and when the THOMASON was commended for its highly responsive and extremely accurate gunfire support by the short forces we supported in Viet Nam. Its nadir occurred when we were unable to fulfill a second Gun Line commitment when the fire control computer went down. lt is said that the man who created the Mark lA computer suffered mental breakdowns during the course of its design, and the THOMASON FT's can certainly understand why. Even the combined efforts of the FT gang and a MOTU chief, working continuously for more than a week, failed to eliminate the problems in the elevation gearing and general alignment. ' The gunners mates all become strong advo- cates of point-detonating ammunition during the cruise, as they certainly become pro- ficient at setting fusesQ Over 1000 fuses had to be reset while we were on the Line. What made the resetting even more irritating was that these were the rounds that we took on to replace the 1200 bullets that had defective fuses. E sz

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-,wife 'T' 'Ai Three ground hogs and a ham, Love the new laundry policy. There were many memorable words spoken dur- ing our stay on the Line. Such remarks as un- load the HECVT and fill up your hoists with Willy T Peter , and send up the power without the casings fthe powder was percussion-detonatingl, and how many Willy Peter MTF do you have in your han- dling room , will long be remembered. One normally advantageous characteristic of the FT rating, namely that the officers hardly ever know what the FT's are talking about, once caused some pretty humorous confusion. IC3 Dave Chal - mers called up to FTG3 Tom KcKinney in the di- rector to see 'if the FT's had a 2K pot , which is the common abbreviation for a 2000 ohm potentio- meter. Mac was hardly prepared for the question which followed, as both the director officer and Combat immediately asked what the devil was he doing with 2 kilos of marijuana! f pw , 4 .0 ,fll T23 ,, v-5' ' ff-'x 'J-Q S, -1 W E