Mahan (DLG 11) - Naval Cruise Book

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.' ,V -friwlp, me -- Q.,-- p 'Vx Mfr!! W......,,, -.Nikki , 5 i LCDR JOHN F. BAUMGARDNER, U.S. NAVY EXECUTIVE OFFICER LCDR. Baumgardner graduated Ir0m the University of Missouri with. a'B.5. degree in Education and was commissioned as Ensign from the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps with his graduating . - C in 1954. His previous duty stations m Engineering Officer aboard the USS EPPINC' FOREST CLSD-4D where he was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation of South Viets nam medal and Operations, ist. Lt., 39 Gun Boss of the Uss GURKEHCDP-7523! and duty with the Operations Divisiozions CINCPACFLT STAFF. He was Opera! h - -18JWh1C officer of the Uss WORDEN CDLG . ed he helped put in commission and 0bf2?:Jm his Masters Degree in Management!-IDOL the U.S. NAVAL POST GRADUATE SC rung in Monterey, California prior to reP0 to MAHAN as EXECUTIVE OFFICER-

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f M 1 ,, . - ff t'veness -, H. ,sign 1 .irri-Ar FSS RANGER CCVA- 613 fly over MAHAN in tribute to her e 901 'w lEiLi1'l Il'.tIl'l ir1ufr:atiOIlS. th FLEET: PCDWER EGR PEACE - f we -A me :si '.'e.x'rn ifiigizr is pi-Qseriuy GULF is 'YANKEE STATION'. Here the affgfitgfc ifigrnq rt .-Q. ff it-'it tn tlyit if Hn- other 17.5. Armed Forces YANKEE TEAM carriers depart OP then' S ly points iz: i - f ' it .4 with 't'iftia.'iii-ws-'f in the war in Vietnam. bombing missions against vital Vietcong Sl1PZ2ofN0rth fm fiqwei 'iff-init!-mst-i'.' 2itJTiiEfIii'1ET, the destroyers, in the North Vietnam. Here, just off the icoasdestroyers im- fi'-iiwrs, time .iirf-raft, and the carriers, is TASK Vietnam and of Communist China, Amerlcmtn aircraft Fw!-Tifi' 5i'YifN. This form has bro main jobs. are constantly alert for damaged returnli End rescue swan wf the mon. shirts. and aircraft of TASK that might go down in the sea. This searc 1 1-'wifi ' it' Q L If bid Lb-TX St-,X his are stationed at DIXIE STATION off the roast of South Yietnanz. Here, daily, they provide mmfiru airport and tactical air sur-port for the land forces of South Yietnani and of the United States in their fight :qminst the Vietcong. Here destroyers addanew dimension to their versatility by adding their guns to those of the cruisers in the first Yafal h the Korean War. North of DIXIE STATION at the mouth of TONKIN i x s ore bombardment since ess. mission demands the utmost in watchfulness andgrllments The destroyers must be prepared to rus11p10L1rS from the notice to any spot in the Gulf Xtvo rgeflglgve Y sea and occasionally from the ie C0 - rica!! Naval support of the South Vietnarn f1l?dv'Z1I?ebutig effort in Vietnam is a decisive factor IU. es 0f'home, is successful only because of the'sacr1fii2Grismamg family, and even life that the American S2110 daily in the waters off Vietnam-