Joseph Strauss (DDG 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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AND NEXT PAY DAY I'LL GIVE WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEM TYPHOID THANKS, NOW TELL ME THEY RAN OUT OF SHOTS ' ' ABOUT THE SKED CHANGE. ROAST BEEF 'P' C H I E F S I YES, I WAS ON PERMANENT SHORE HAND WAIT TILL YOU SEE THE HONG KONG PATROL. HILTON I T I SHE'S O.K. In WHO TOOK MY COFFEE CUP ?

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, L 0 ' I n W O HAVE STRONG SEE ME RIGHT AWAY. BOATS Cf - A i - AS S I WHAT SHALL WE DO TODAY ? L M.. I F 13 ANOTHER SKED CHAN JUST CAME IN. GE

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I li l W, P J rl J W I lf 7 COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER il I l I 4 LTJG. D. A. GARDNER y ELECTRONICS MATERIAL OFFICER ENS. W.K. GAYLORD D E P OPERATIONS OFFICER LT. M.B. HALL At sea the Operations Department is easily the busiest on board 3 making the machines chatter in Radio Central, controlling air craft, plotting surface contacts in CIC, rewriting OP orders, burning on the fantail, tuning the IO radar or reviving the 4O . Ops personnel are kept frantically on the move. The gruel- C I C OFFICER ing pace continues day after day and many of the less experienced are learning by sur- prise that it vvasn't all caused by Screaming Tom , but rather by the schedule necessary to make our commitments in the Far East. The Ops Department has been responsible for a great deal of JOE STRAUSS' glory. ASST. C I C OFFICER LTJG. B.J. MACKMAN ASST. COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER ENS. J.M. BROWNE ENS. F. PTUCHA