Mount Vernon (LSD 39) - Naval Cruise Book

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER LCDR EDWARD FRITZ ABOVE Who was that masked man ' TOP RIGHT Assembling the troops on the Fo ' csle with scenic Alaska for a backdrop RIGHT Attention on deck!

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COMMANDING OFFICER CDR D. E. MYERS Command.-! David E. M ■ Wayna, Indiana, vji.i.iu.u. ' , I from tha Stata Unlvti - ... York .it Buffalo m ! and waa commlaaionad an Ensign upon graduation from dldata School in February 1972 After completion of trol School is Damage Control Assist. mi I USS LAWRENCE (DDG 4) and USS WILLIAM M WOOD (DD 715) homaportad In Athans, Greece He served Department Head aboard USS DAMATO (DD 871) and as uit aboard USS HERMITAGE (LSD 34). Commander ad as Executive Officer of USS NEWPORT (LST 1179). He commanded USS ADROIT (MSO 509) and USS FORTIFY (MSO 446). From May 1988 until September 1988, Commander Myers commanded USS INFLICT (MSO 456) while conducting minecountermeasures operations in the Persian Gulf. Commander Myers assignments ashore have been at the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, Rhode Island as a chemistry instructor, and on the staff of Commander. Naval Surface Force. U.S. Atlantic Fleet as the Damage Control Readiness and Training Officer. Commander Myers is married to the former Carol Waszak of Brooklyn. New York. They presently reside in Seal Beach, California with their children Jennifer and Charles. BELCH . itroduc ] tha Exxon clean up coordinator to Navy cuisine at the 4th of July picnic RIGHT: Captain ' s Call in the Well Deck BELOW RIGHT COMPHIBGRU THREE RADM Baker stopped by to congratulate MOUNT VERNON on handling another difficult |ob

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER LCDR DOUGLAS WHALEN TOP RIGHT New old kid on the block on his first time underway with Mount Vernon as XO. Last time he pulled away from the pier was as Mount Vernon ' s Chief Engineer TOP LEFT: No. this is not a guilty look caused by reaching for a Twinkle Maybe it has something to do with the sign LEFT: Bos ' n Kosse updates the XO on the loading plan. ABOVE: LCDR Whalen gets excited and involved in shipboard evolutions, in this case it ' s the counter-measure washdown