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Lieutenant (jg) Michael P, Joynt. USNR graduated from the State Iniversity of Iowa City, Iowa, in June 1963. with a B.A. Degree in Economics. He received his commission as Hnsicn in the IS Naval Reserve from the Officer Candidate School Newport. Rhode Island, in Novemher 1963. Lt(jg) Joynt had four years of Reserve duty prior to his commission, finishing up as RD3. Following training at CIC Officer School, at NAS. Glynco. Georgia. Ltljg) Joynt reported aboard LOWE in May 1964. . baard LOWE he has served as CIC Officer. OI Division Officer, and as an . IC Officer. Lt(ig) Joynt relieved Lt(jg) Benton as Operations Officer in April 1966. He served as Operations Officer until Lt. Fijak arrived. Lieutenant (jg) Dennis . . Tabel. I ' SN. graduated from the Univer- sity of Idaho, Moscow. Idaho, in June 1964. with a B.S. Degree in Phy- sics and an NROTC commission as Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Lt(jg) Tabel reported aboard LOWE in July 1964. He served as the Main Propulsion Assistant. M Division Officer and later as Electronics Mate- rial Officer. Lt(jg) Tabel developed a chemical detection kit for use by .Market Time units. On several occasions the detection kit proved its value by identifying substances previously not discovered to be in the possesion of Vietnamese fishermen. During our many months at sea certain personalities became prominent, . lexander. our saltiest sailor was always one step ahead of the barometer turning green at the slightest change in the weather. It was also noticed that a dull mid-watch co uld he turned into a circus by our Spelling King . Fontana. If one was fortunate enough to be in the same section as Honest . be Rogers, you could listen to an unlimited amount of true stories. As time wore on there was serious discussion as to when Ogden would run out of ge- dunk and when Pream would stop eating the chow instead of just threatening to. Even Williams would relieve the watch early. In February we high lined silent Stanley Stasel for further transfer, he would rather have swum to the oiler, but he couldn ' t carry his trunk full of sea shells that way. Hineman. our hard luck man. would rather forget his two day stint of mess cooking for taking too much butter, so I won ' t go into that.