Pensacola (LSD 38) - Naval Cruise Book

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boarding other ships. Even though many drills interrupted the sanctity of the Sunday Holiday Routine all was not strictly work. There was, on the first Sunday, a get acquainted cook-out on the Flight Deck for the intermingling of USN and USMC, Along with this, the first of several Flight Deck barbeques, was a Talent Show in which Chief Master at Arms Brown turned out to be an excellent Chief Master of Ceremonies and led what proved to be an entertaining evening for all. The following Sunday it was noted that the re- mainder ofthe Task Force hopped on the get- acquainted band wagon and on this ship-wide evolution Pepsi held her first Smoker of the cruise. Almost 30 sparring partners participated in this event that started mid-afternoon and continued past dark. fig? 2

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