Joseph Strauss (DDG 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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I Back Rowg T. Kasnow, R. Jones, J. Fuller, F. Miller, l-. Morrison, R. Waggoner, W. Tilford, K. l-ane, W. Jones. - T FronT Rowg S. Greenwald, R. Linier, W. Shank, M. Driscoll, R. Eric-4son, D. ReuTiman, C. Tripp. The QM Gang wiTh LTJG Jones in charge is responsible Tor CharT and I3uhlicaTions correcTions and The safe navigaTion of The ship. By recording waTer depThs along The China CoasT and Through4 ouT The Trip To AusTralia They have greaTly helped The safer navi- gaTion of oTher ships. STeaming a liTTle over 53,562 miles They have Taken us To such porTs as Sasebo and Yol4osul4a,'Japan, Subic Bay in The Philippine Islands, Rusan, Korea, Kaohsiung, ' Taiwan, l-long Kong BLDC., NewcasTle, AusTralia, l-loharT, Tas- mania, Dunedin, New Zealandj Pago Pago, in The Samoan Islands, and finally home. To Pearl l-larbor, l-lawaii. ' ' 4 ,..... ww --T . ' fi -- Lf, ov W... T Navi ation -.1 ' li ' ygf- it rl? Department y T

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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.

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K , T -H Q l i , o I X s,.! 5 HNHIIHK Q T E Q My g 4 fb ick Bay lT is recorded ThaT among hypochondriacs Samuel Jessup lhorn l75Qj, a wealThy grazier of l-leckinaTon Lincolnshire, has never had a modern rival.i l-lis consumpTion of pills from l79Ll To l8lo was Q26 Q34 wiTh a peak annual ToTal oT5l,59Oin l8lLl. l-le islalso recorded 05 l'1C1Vll'1Q Clflmls 40,000 l:JoTTles oT medicine before deaTh -overTook him aT The surprisingly ad- vanced age of 65. The Medical DeparTmenT survived The WESTIDAQ cruise wiTh no major injuries To The crew, save some headaches and many colds, and some very good luck. The TesTs conducTed concerninglmedicaTions Tor The cure aT The common cold proved once again ThaT iT Takes seven days wiTh medicaTions and a weekwiTh- ouT medicaTions To cure The cold. The crew had Their choice. All was noT guieT in The Sick Bay Though. The Tlashing needles and disposable syringes Took Their aim aT arms wiTh The grand ToTal of l327 shoTs given during The cruise. Many a shipyardhead- ache andfor liherTy headache was cured To The Tune of over l0,000 aspirin TableTs used by The crew. 2,l92 personnel showed up Tor sick call during our sTay away Tram Pearl l-larhor and They weren'Tall TreaTed Tor homesickness.