Navarro (APA 215) - Naval Cruise Book

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A Division A DIVISION CHARACTERISTICS Now draw near and take heed all ye lowly landlubbers as I pronounce these twenty-one men worthy and highly qualified members of the Olde Canoe Clube . After four months and five days on the briny deep they have developed the characteristics of the stouthearted men who have passed them before. Many of our ranks long only to drop anchor at Long Beach. Among those home-loving are the faithful brothers-in-law com- binations and other assorted lonely hearted brown baggers. There are others, though, who have reason to believe that the world's only women are still in Iapan. The call of the Pacific will draw one of our members back to Guam for a tour R G R at Gab Gab beach. I-Ie yearns only for beer, sea water and sunshine. Far below the second deck the cry of Don't waste my water issues forth from one of our gungho Navy men who dreams oddly of his discharge date. The call of Iapan is still in the heart of the one who claims that dim lights, beer, and women make his eyes water. Destiny will surely let him return. ' And then there is a small but strong group who claim they can find happiness in the U.S. without having to sail the seas to find it. These are the humble characteristics of the piston-pushing celebrities who maintain and repair our early vintage landing craft engines. y Blessed are they who do labor after sunset for they shall be called snipes . Front Row, from left: FUSELIER, L. O., THORNTON, R. T., Jr., IBROWN, H. L., ENS GREEN, MASHBURN, R. W., MOORE, R. W., SHOOK, G. L., Second Row: REEVES, P. J., JONES, E. D., ROE, R. E , HAWLEY, J. L., BREMER, W. A., SILVER, G. T., MACGRE- GOR, G. M., JACKSON, J. E., DANIELS, E. H., Third Row: MORITSON, L. T., POLSTER, W. F., FUNDERBURK, A. L., ZAGAR, F. R., MADARIAGA, D. S.

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First' Row, from left: DELA CRUZ, D. lnl, SPENCE, D. R., LTJG ZEMENE, LAURENT, E. L., PICKENS, H. R., Second Row: FREDERICKSON, R. E., PERSONS, W. J., THURSTON, G. E., THOMPSON, M. D., BOLT, J. F. 4th Division REVEILLE and PICKENS is astir? Good Grief that means one of two things either he won another acey-duecy game last night, or we're entering the channel. Pappa San DELA CRUZ - the combination of over- acting at Gab Gab Beach, and getting some blood into his alcohol stream was just too much. Even though he maintains that it was a left-handed beer bout, the fact remains that it takes a four hand working party to cart him from his bunk to the coffee mess. Who is that lanky, skinny shadow pour- ing over the Ordnance Gang from the morning watch till IGSO? Why, Freddie the Eire Controlman of course. Bhudda-Belly Bodenhammer, the only surviving mess cook of the Last Supper whose disdain for odorous, noisy :berthing compartments and whose efforts towards rectifying this condition is unending, is soon to give up this glorious Canoe for his snake pit on the beach. 'T ' All that muttering on the fantail, when translated, is just Whitecalf assuring him- self that if his Grandpappy had this 5 !38, he'd have put the Paleface on Reservations. If jack Benny Person would just stop to think a little more about? this aviation electrician business, he'd soon realize that Any fool can make a rate, but only God can make a Gunner's Mate. Our truest representative of the Lone Star State, Thompson, that lost wetback , really is a cowboy. Kind and human, gives his horse plenty of rest. All that activity on the aft gun deck - could it be that Laurent has that much inter- est in his striker's instruction and well-be- ing? At any rate, Spence, baby of the division, must have paid close attention to his Sea Daddy , for he made the highest grade in the group on the E-3 exam. And what's with this refugee from the third division, Bolt? Can the deck force pro- duce a potential Educated Gunner's Mate. I-Ias Thirsty Thurston finally realized that the distilleries make the stuff faster than he can drink it? Or maybe, as he says, he's just trying to drink it all up so the rest of us will stay sguared away. ,And a warning to one and all, hither and yon, if you've got any Playboys you haven't read, I-IIDE 'EM QUICK here comes Mr. Zemene with that hungry, haunted look? Or perhaps he's just loking for his ILLUS- TRIOUS WI-IIPPING DOG. Silent Willy Willburn, one of the finest Gunner's Mates and the division's most recent Brownbagger was more interest- ed in mail call than liberty call. A

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Front Row, from left: LADROW, P. D., JEWELL, J. A., ROGERS, D. R., ENS DILL, ROD- GERS, S., ENGER, R. F., Second Row: CLARK, D. A., ACKER, L. P., SULLIVAN, D. G., DENNIS, W. K., VAN HOOK, T. B., ANDERSON, T. J., PINNELL, L. E. B Dlvls I o n B-DIVISION STEAMING DEMONS Down below in the depths of hell, a little beneath where the demons dwell, there lives an elegiac group l'm here to tell. They live on nothing but an oily smell. We have Ensign Dill at the head of the clan, Bones Clark and Pappy Pinnell l-lis Chiefs and second in Command. Then there's Besse May the man with the first class crow. His job is our division P.O. Beneath him is a surly group, about fifteen men who don't give a hoot. As DC. P.O. l can truth- fully say is wild Bill Bailey from out Texas way, Iewell and Bod- gers are the oilking gang, but l will not dramatize the oilking's names. Down through the demons we will go till we find Mouse Salter the Turn To P.O. Another step down and right in his place, we find featherhead Bogers with a smile on his face. That ends the division as far as P.O.'s, but stick around l have ten firemen to go. At the top of the list l'm sure you'll find Anderson ci Elsis with a rate on their mind. We have many good men, all ready, and eager like Ladrow, Acker and that Ironheaded Enger. l have a few more names before l close my book, like Sullivan, Thompson, Dennis and Van l-Took. Now everyone has been mentioned with the exception of Shrum. Someone had to go on Mess Cooking, and he was the one. There is not a demon here with wealth or fame, but they are all good BT's, so remember their names.