Lawrence (DDG 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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the night before christmas twas the n1ght before chr1stmas and all through the sh1p not a sa1lor was happy no ChI'1S'C1'1'13.SthlS tr1p but stock1ng were hung 1n f1re room l w1th care 1n hopes that st n1cholas mlght soon be there the rd s all nestled all snug 1n the1r beds wh11e v1s1ons of l1berty danced 1n the1r heads and J c ID h1s stateroom and m 1n h1s rack had just settled down for a good p1ece of sack and there 1n combat all alone sat bern1e b and a new unknown let's get that contact up on the board ecm s range IS ahundred and four he Just doesn t know what It IS all about was heard to be Sald as the contact went ou unknown l1ma one overhead jul1ett 1S there any 1d on h1m you can get over the net an 1d d1d come over a speaker w1th low volume and farrell1 the recorder who stood very near sa1d all 1 cop1ed was red and re1ndeer then adm1ral h who knows everythlng the message to capta1n h1mself he d1d br1ng agree the message had some pr1or1ty red re1ndeer sounds fam1l1ar and yet 1 know It s a cond1t1on to set then out on the br1dge there arose such a no1se It seemed that the capta1n was los1ng h1S po1se stat1on the aa track1ng team and go too the whole th1ng was startmg to look l1ke a zoo a rd's to combat 3 C S d and then donny waters lost h1s head down to the compartment donny ran we've got just 5 m1nutes to get combat manned get out of your racks donny d1d yell get out of here donny go to hell h1ll the b1tcher and tucker the moaner couldn't f1gure out th1s new navy boner why don't they let us sleep r1ght now ' yeah and 1 bet we can t even eat chow stat1ons were manned 1n the1r state r1ght on t1me 20 m1nutes late and above the no1se J c was heard to excla1m on the Shlp 1n athens you all W111 rema1n ' d gl 1 was 1t's usual mess and surface and ecm knew even less f1nn was there all east bogey tote and knell as usual asleep by the scope moran and the Ch1Gf just gettmg on f1ne let the roach watch h1s scope 1 ll watch m1ne back 1n the corner mattress safely 111 hand stood old you know who our data l1nk man br1nker w1th bucket all ready to go summers and battle cry aaaaax ohhhhhh and there sat homey 1n charge of the show a short t1mer and our rco 1n surface two of our favor1tes w ut zero holdmg hands w1th the wmco snake then over the phone came the cry knell you got that bogey at 285 sorry ch1ef sa1d payne he IS not on the 1ne and the 29 IS down at th1s t1me look at Joe bara tear through the door It can't be my gear lt IS the operator suddenly the contact beg1ns to close check 1ff and see 1f lt shows but no s1gn from the contact was seen except fo1 h1m the green screen was clean weps track the contact at 351 and des1gnate h1m to system one then m 1nto the f1ShbOW1 flew get out of here b 1 know what to do over the net came after a pause from 3ul1ett 11ma one s santa claus lt can t be santa he 1sn't for real sn1ckered we ll g1VG h1m a taste of steel and up went the m1ssles one on each ra1l l1berty forever and yankee protectlon stood ready to a1d IH santa's d1ssect1on b1rds aff1rm l1ma one Sald the wlo to Wh1Ch he added all systems go are we sure asked payne It s not santa out there 'P there IS no santa Sdld m lt must be a bear then from ecm sa1d the man w1th no ha1r It must be a bogey there's a toadstool out there we better shoot Sald weps he s commg our way concur sa1d m and b1rds away the m1ssles both flew stra1ght and true the f1rst h1t the sle1gh the second d1d too toys and presents all strewn through the a1r soon covered the water near the wreckage there oh no shouted m' what have we done santa was lost but the war was WO11 the lawrence great gray and true had seen to lt that santa was through but we heard h1m excla1m as he d1sappeared from s1ght merry chr1stmas to all but the lawrence ton1ght anon e mous I I O 9 ' ' ' . - ' rv ' 'V 9 9 . . . 1 0 ' . I ' 1 9 9 H 'V 1 ' , . I . 9 ' ' r , 9 VH . . . - 1 L . y .. , . I 9 9 C 1 9 - ' ' H H ' ' ' ' Z 's I I . , 9 - ' YY 4 Y! V 9 . yy ' N ' H ' , . . . 1- yy , . , yy . . . vv ' f 9 1 1 - H H' 1 ' ' 1 H f 1 9 Q yy , y . . : . ' O ' vv ' 1 ' ' vv . t. . yy . . . Q . ' 9 0 . . . yy , . . . . . yy ' 9 0 ' vv vv ' ' ' 9 ' vv rv - . f 9 9 ' ' ' VV ' 'V H ' ' ' V H - . , . , . ' ' uv- v - . ' 9 y ga ' V' ' 'V ' ' vv H H v ' ' III ' vv ' - . ' . 0 0 0 c 0 adm1ral h. and the capta1n were qu1ck to lt must be 3 tuck, but lt w1ll fa11, 9 , , . , ' 9 vv ' vv - ' . . . . 9 9 ' ' I ' ' yy yy . . . yy . 9 o 9 ' , ' ' vv H , . - 1 , vv . . . . yy ' , vv ' vv , - vv vv ' Q , . . I Q Q I - 9 . vv' f n ' ' u ' - 11 , mr. . . a1 , y ' vv H ' I ' ' 9 u , ' , vv vv - u vv ' vv ' 9 ' f ' 1 y ' Q . . . 9 , ' H , . 9 4 , 9 . H . y ' . vv vv vv v vv , ' ' vv ' ' . . . 9 ' 9 ' ' 4 9 9 9 . ' 0 1 . , , . . . , . yy . . - . 9 . ' vv - . yy 1 . 0 . . 9 9