John Thomason (DD 760) - Naval Cruise Book

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The card listing of what we don 't have, Because of the John's perfect record of al- ways receiving about twice what it ordered on a major replenishment, maintaining organized storerooms has been almost im- possible. This problem once resulted in a pretty humorous incident involving the be- leaguered Jerry Noye. Jerry, trying to create some order in the M Division store- room, asked LTQjgJ Kreft if he could tem- porarily put some of his stores in the J P-5 pump room. lt is from this room that we pump the fuel for refueling helos and the DASH drones. Soon after we had a vertical refueling evolution. EN1 Tune went down to the pumproom, and when he opened the door he was confronted with a solid wall of the J ohn's special brand of corn flakes, which are similar in taste and texture to polyethy- lene. After frantically throwing corn flakes all over M Division, Tune managed to get close enough to the valves to operate them with his feet. Keeping on top of the officers' and crew's demands can sometimes be rather difficult. Atone time, we had an emergency helo detail to keep the XO in popcorn, whose virtues he so famously extolled in one of our more memorable POD's. For sheer day to day hardship, however, the hardest task had to be keeping the Captain in ice cream. According to LTqjgJ Selmeier, the wardroom has spent an average of S150 per month on this item alone. But few tasks could prove too much for the daring and resourceful Mr. Selmeier. His Subic Bay exploits would earn high social standing in any Mexican border town. It seems that he borrowed no less than five Navy pickup trucks at various times in Subic. Oh well, sometimes one has to re- sort to extreme measures to pick up the laundry . Even Robbin' Hood oouldn't take care of the famed oven door, however, which achieved the distinction of making the 8 o'clock reports longer than any other piece of gear - seven months. Nor could he prove the existence of the mysterious CTU 7 3.1.2. the graveyard of all supply work requests. Feet of clay after all.

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Nieman Marcus it ain't ! pil :gint 55.15 Because it is responsible for most of our comforts, necessities, and primary luxury - the coke machine - Supply undoubtedly must put up with ten times as much griping as any other division. Perhaps all those unreps, vertreps, and stores handling parties have made the rest of us a little bitter. Then again, watching the men of Supply always being the first across the brow hasn't increased our feelings of charity very much. The poor cooks take the worst of our grousing, but they seem to bear up just fine. CThe probable ans- wer is that all Navy cooks must be maso- chists, even though our stomachs would vote sadist from time to timel. Yet, true to form, the cooks themselves always enjoy their own cooking. The good people of Bangkok wished that Roberts and Quintanella didn't enjoy it so much. Roberts was the major factor in the collaspe of a dock during the Bangkok tour. Later on, he and Cowboy got on an elevator that had worked fine with just six other Supply men aboard, but the added weight of the Dy- namic Duo stopped it cold. QPerhaps they could take advantage of Beltran's con- ditioning program, as his morning dashes to make up Cece Rider's rack before he got back in it would keep anyone in shapej.

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