Midway (CVA 41) - Naval Cruise Book

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LT. J. A. Shattuck D Division Officer 0 1= ' -. The primary job of the men of the Dental Department and of D Division is to provide the men of the Mid- way with professional dental care. In order to be able to provide capable dental care to the Midway ' s crew, the division must constantly train new men. So constant training in true Navy tradition has become a primary job.

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Cdr. E. T. Guay Commander Edward Thomas Guay was born in Menominee, Michigan. He attend- ed the University of St. Louis in Missouri and received his degree from the St. Louis School of Dentistry. A member of the Naval Reserve, he entered active duty in Jan. of 1942, and was transferred to the regular Navv in 1945. He served on the Staff Dental Service at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Philadelphia Pa. dental DEPARTMENT Some great cave-man originated the idea of putting a large slonc in front of his cave. From there it was only a step to the invention of a door. And from there it was but a swing to tying one end of a string to the door-knob and the other end to a sore tooth and thus the first extraction. Between the original door-slammer and the modern dentist have come centuries of progress in the art of oral surgery. Today, Midway ' s Dental Department is equipped to bring nearly every modern precision tool and technique to any man aboard with a troubled tooth. The department ' s four doctors handle general dentistry, prosthetic dentistry, periodontal dentistry, oral surgery. X-rays and preventive dentistry. They handle the job with just as much skill as their shore-based counterparts in spite of the additional hardships of a pitching and rolling deck, a 6.0t)()-mile supply chain and the always present interference inherent in the cverchanging training schedule of any ship designed to fight. 303

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Also the Navy has many special problems unknown to civilian dentists which its personnel must be informed on — biological and chemical warfare, Naval leadership techniques, the Naval directives system and Naval advance- ment requirements. This paper end of divisional work takes nearly as much time as the work D Divi- sion is known for. iSTANDINGi: Gartner, R.F. : Bigart. T. W. ; Cdr. E. T. Quay; Lcdr. J. F. Hardin; I.cdr. R. W. Bagby ; LT. J. A. Shattuck ; Purvines, R. E. ; Howard, J. E. ; (KNEELING ' : Tutt. K. W. ; Seamon, J. H. ; Brown. F.C. ; Crawford, P. J. ; Welch, M. E. ; Mastain, A. C. A K V - Vll, ' -xX