Joseph Strauss (DDG 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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WhaT could be more essenTial on a DDG during a Tour To The VieTnam combaT zone Than a Weapons De- parTmenT? Around whose operaTions did The cenTer of aTTenTion focus? Upon whose equipmenT was The employmenT of The ships so dependenT? The Weapons DeparTmenT. IniTially led by I-T Paul I,. Sovey, who became a TaTher of his TirsT child IusT Three days aTTer we left, Pearl I-Iarbor, The deparTmenT began Tallying an impressive deploymenT record:Sea Dragon, wiTh iTs sTicl4y heaT, general quarTers, and hosTile Tire, plane guarding, wiTh iTs high speeds, hurried Tempo, and emer- gency rescues always in The oTTing, IV Corps wiTh iTs shallow waTers, large ammuniTion expendiTures, and innumerable anchor deTailsg I Corps, wiTh iTs beauTiTul coasTline, Cong-inTesTed hills, and myriad small craTT, apd lasT buT by no means leasT I-I 84 I missions galore. Towards The end of The cruise, IusT in Time To geT in on The visiTs To The land down under, came a new deparTmenT head, I-T I-lomer S. Nakayama, a graduaTe of The Navy's PosTgraduaTe School in lVlonTerey. I-T Michael MerchanT, who proTecTed us from all The evil Tonkin Gulf submarines as ASW Qfficer, wem on To greaTer heighTs aT DesTroyer School and was replaced by The Tormer l:irsT I-ieuTenanT, I-'I' Richard Moore. Our Gunnery AssisTanT, ENS Fred Clark, Then inheriTed The FirsT Division and ToughT The baffle ' ' ld h h d b lvl' ile Officer all The T' of The deck-chipping empTy brass cases. LTJG Paul WoT ins, w o a een iss ,mel inheriTed Gunnery AssisTanT, Tinally giving him someThing To do. The only posiTion which did noT change was ThaT of Fire ConTrol Officer, managed by I-T James Collins, whose Tire conTrol sysTems l4epT The ship ready Tor acTion. - IT was a good cruise, one which no one will soon TorgeT, Trom The TirsT Take in all lines To The lasT double up. ' 1 WN 'lg We, - My Weapons Department

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