Joseph Strauss (DDG 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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l During The pasT seven monThs, The ET's have been Tasked wiTh The responsibiliT of mainT ' ' Th H , . I I . y aining e s ip s highly cpmpleqx radar, communicaTions and elecTronic counTermeasure sysTems. Many long hours' were T T - ' ' ' ' - ' - spen rou e s ooTing various casualTies buT The final resulT of resToring a piece of equipmenT To operaTing condiTion made The work worThwhile. IT is True ThaT casrepTs were submiTTed by The dozen buT we feel ThaT a- magoriTy of These were due, noT To The lack of ET knowledge, buT raTher To The lack of .s are parTs and an occasional loss of elecTriciTy by The engineers. In The final analysis Though we owe a glfeaT deal of Thanks To The friendly supply clerks and snipes, for wiThouT Their efforTs innumefable casualTies would have never arisen To challenge our knowledge. An addiTional responsibiliTy was underTaken while offT Tlhe XQieTnaH1q coasT lan ThaT The ET's could be found up in CIC sTanding elecTronic counTermeasure VVG ' ' - . . . c es o ga er 'inTe igence and provide early warning of any poTenTial enemy aTTack. For Their fine work The ET s received several congraTulaTory messages from seniors in The chair of command. T l The harsh shriek pealing from The wardroom undoubTedly comes from The mouTh of The ElecTranics MaTerial Officer when he is Told anoTher piece of communicaTions gear is down. AfTer a shorT period of wallowing in his Tears, The composed-EMO races up To The signal bridge where The BaT signal is flashed on The clouds. Upon seeing The signal l3aTman German races from his million dollar mansion in The sky QThaT is, The Chief's Loungej and swoops downon The arch enemy, Radio CenTral. Ably assisTed by Robin, The boy wonder fMike Floodj our hero begins anoTher fighT for TruTh, jusTice and The American way of life. The fighT is noT easy for Radio CenTral is assisTed by Those oTher nasTies, Drop-The-load Cuneo and DefecTive I3arTs Evans In The end all Twelve ET s mlghT have To loin in The fray buT as any good comic book fan knows The good guys always win in The end So once more The EMO can reTire safely To his piT resT assured ThaThis nervous breakdown is posTponed unTil anoTher day While in The background The sound begins To swell The L10 radar is down The AO radar is down So sTarTs anoTher exciTing episode in The life of an EMO Tune in Tomorrow same Time same channel for anoTher exciTing episode in The conTinuing sTory of AS Tl-IE RADAR ROTATES , . . . . . . , , - 1 . . . . - If . A. . ,, .. . . . . 1 ' ' . , .. . . . . ,, 1 rv

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From The franT'ic pace of Sea Dragon and Thevisual frenzy oflgarrier operaTions To The more peaceful waTers of IV CORPS NGV0 Un 'Ve SupporT,rOC Division furnished The ship wiTh ThaT viTal key To successful compleTion of assigned missions - The abilify To comlmunicafe. While on 0peraTi,on Sea Dragon Traffic volume reached a peak of close. To 400 messages per day. In acldifion To providing communicafion services for The shi and embarked sTaff, The radio gang under Chief Bill Saling fre- p . quenTly found Them-selves funcTioning as a mayor relay sTaTion for ship- ' ' ' h dl The 'ob. For Their shore Traffic when The big boys couldnT an Ie I a ouTsTanding work in processing These direcTTerminaTions, VADM Bringle- COMSEVENTHFI-T, senT several congraTu'laTory messages, WiTh The liTTle spare Time available, Radio sTill found a few minuTe,s To publish The unofficial ship's news bulleTin, The Fleelff l:oxdFlyer, or ' T a The even more unofficial, The Twidgef Cronicle. T e Twl ge was real success buT for Tear of a courT marTial we 'can'T reveal The names of The edifor and arTisT CTheir iniTials are,Earl SmiTh and Gil Adams Thoughj. Earl shared The dufies of supervisor wiTh Frank CanTrell and RonSkipper. When he could be Torn away from his iob as AdminisTraTive AssisTanT, RMS Coordinafor and Traffic Checker, Mac McCormick would fill in for Frank who had his hands full evaluaTing a new piece of communicafion gear called The GARD' compufer. Spending long hours on The ORESTES neT making sure our ouTgoing Traffic goT To The beach were Al Gosselin, Brian Swenson Richard Michaelis and B.ob '-'Pancho Leyba. Dennis Berry Howard ,Bauerle and Gil Adams Took care of ensuring a good in- coming fleef broadcasT signal and provided NewT Slaughfer, Wink Winnike, Rick l,auThner and Terry Kerr wiTh plenTy of Traffic To wriTe up and rouTe. When he wasn'T wriTing a GARD reporf ENS Russ I-indsTedT could usually be found Taking on all comers To al Two-finger Typing con- TGST- LTJG Bob ROS-lking' held many conferences wiTh Chief Saling To ensure smooTh overall coordinafion. H - Larry Tondu was in charge of The signal Bridge and his signal crew was a viTal cog in carrier planeguarding operaTions. When noT working wiTh flashing lighT, flaghoisT or semaphore The signalmen could be found observing The ,fall of shoT from The ship's Two 5 f5L1 gun mounfs. During The day Larry could be found wiTh painfbrush in hand along wiTh ' ' I-loss Hansen, RiTchie Richardson, Chris Alderson, Bud Wright Amy Amundson and Ron Basoff. No oufside space on The'enTire shlip looked beTTer Than The signal bridge. The signalmen have Truly earned a well deserved BRAVO ZUl.U for Their professional compeTence. J OOO I 1 Q . 0 Dlvlslon T di gg as-4 I A G Back Row: W. Saling, J, MCC ' T4 B S A- WVlQlW'f1 L- TOV1dU, D. CanT?eTlllCRl Roelkfrlilsonl D' Berry, E. SmiTh, D. Winnike, C. Alderson, G. Adams, A 'Fron'fRow1A.oOSSeiin,R.RiChQrdS R Q' on Osoff' W' AmUndSO'W, N. Slaughfer.