Phillip (DD 498) - Naval Cruise Book

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M 'fir S V' W 'A' ENSIGN BRUNELLI GRADUATED FROM BOSTON COLLEGE IN JUNE 1965 AND ENTERED THE U.S. NAVAL OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL, OR AS HE REFERRED TO IT, VICODDINGTON COLLEGE OF NAUTICAL KNOWLEDGEU, THAT SAME MONTH. AFTER ATTENDING GUNNERY SCHOOL IN DAM NECK, VIRGINIA, MR. BRUNELLI REPORTED TO PHILIP IN DECEMBER 1965, AS FIRST LIEUTENANT. EARLY IN. 1965, MR. BRUNELLI BECAME THE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT AND COMPOD. DUE TO HIS PRIOR GUNNERY DEPARTMENT EXPERIENCE, MR. BRUNELLI WAS ASSIGNED A GENERAL QUARTERS STATION IN THE MARK 56 DIRECTOR THROUGHOUT THE WESTPAC CRUISE. DESPITE PERIODIC CONFERENCES ENSIGN JOHN F. BRUNELLI, USNR WITH THE GAS FREE ENGINEER TO HAVE THE DIRECTOR AIR--CONDITIONED, MR. BRUNELLI WAS SUCCESSFUL ONLY IN OBTAINING A USED MARK V GAS MASK. HE ALSO HAD THE OFFICER OF THE DECKIS ASSURANCE THAT TUBES WOULD NOT BE BLOWN WHILE THE DIRECTOR WAS MANNED. SOMETIMES THEY ACTUALLY . ITI 1 .ll - V Z mg S44 Z ,WI 7 f f e I Q f I 'FQ I ,975 X f ,M if Mil! ENSIGN BECK JOINED PHILIP IN KAOHSIUNG, TAIWAN WHEN PHILIP WAS WELL INTO THE CRUISE. HE WAS DELAYED IN TRANSIT AT U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, WHERE HE WAS DETAINED UNTIL GRADUATION DAY, .8 JUNE 1966. MR. BECK WAS ASSIGNED TO WEAPONS DEPARTMENT, FIRST AS I ENSIGN RICHARD L. REPASKY, USN GRADUATING FROM OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY AND BEING COMMISSIONED IN DECEMBER 1965, ENSIGN REPASKY WAS READY TO SET THE WORLD ON FIRE IN 1966. HOWEVER ON RECEIVING ORDERS TO PHILIP, HE REALIZED THAT IT WOULD ACTUALLY BE HIS JOB AS DAMAGE CONTROL ASSISTANT TO PUT OUT FIRES AND SEE TO IT THAT THEY NEVER OCCURRED. FILLED WITH ENTHUSIASM, MR. REPASKY RIPPED THROUGH ANY OUTDATED PRACTICES HE FOUND IN THE REPAIR DIVISION, AND THROUGHOUT THE WESTPAC CRUISE WITH A SUPPLY OF NUTS, BOLTS, AND A MAGIC WAND HE KEPT PHILIPIS WATER TIGHT INTEGRITY AT ITS USUAL HIGH PEAK. MR. REPASKY ALSO SERVED AS ALTERNATE MOVIE OFFICER DURING THE CRUISE AND WON THE ADMIRATION OF THE CREW FOR OBTAINING MOVIES WHICH MAY NEVER HAVE WON THE TOP AWARD AT A FILM FESTIVAL BUT AT LEAST MADE A SAILOR HAPPY TO STAND THE 2.000-2A00 WATCH. WHO COULD EVER FORGET IITHE MONSTER WHO DEVOURED CREAM PUFF, SOUTH DAKOTAW ? 7214: ENSIGN ANDREW C. BECK, USN GUNNERY ASSISTANT AND LATER AS SECOND DIVISION OFFICER. BEING FILLED WITH VIGOR AND EXUBERANCE, MR. BECK WASTED NO TIME AND ALMOST IMMEDIATELY V ARRANGED A u.S. NAVAL GUNFIRE SUPPORT ASSIGNMENT FOR PHILIP SO THAT HE COULD ACTUALLY SEE HIS ,5l..,...q V I- L-- RJ! I I I Q-'I DIVISION AND EQUIPMENT IN ACTION. AI.I.. PARTIES V: ' vi AGREED THE RESULTS WERE OUTSTANDING. M '. '..,:yi:H.'L

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. .,,..-.-pf. Y, . ,,.,A:,,,. , : 'Arif ll il fu I LIEUTENANT CJUNIOR GRADED MICHAEL B. TEPOVICH, USNR LT CJGI TEPOVICH GRADUATED FROM YOUNGSTOWN UNIVERSITY IN MAY 1964, AND WAS COMMISSIONED AN ENSIGN IN NOVEMBER 1964 AT U.S. NAVAL OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL. THOSE WINTER MONTHS IN NEWPORT PREPARED MR. TEPOVICH FOR HIS FIRST DUTY STATION AT U.S. NAVAL COMMUNICATIONS STATION, ICELAND. FROM THE RIGORS OF ICELAND TO BALMY HAWAII WAS A WELCOME CHANGE FOR MR. TEPOVICH WHEN HE REPORTED AS PHILIPIS ELECTRONICS MATERIAL OFFICER DURING THIS CRUISE. WHEN RECENTLY ASKED BY A WASHINGTON OFFICIAL WHAT HE CONSIDERED TO BE THE FUTURE OF THE HELMSMAN IN THE NAVY, MR. TEPOVICH, WHO IS KNOWN FOR HIS KEEN PERCEPTION AND FRANKNESS, REPLIED THE WIRON MIKEII WOULD SOON TAKE OVER THE NAVY. LIEUTENANT CJUNIOR GRADE, V TERRY ULN BOWMAN, USN 7 few W ZS I Z , Z.. LTCJGJ BOWMAN WAS COMMISSIONED IN JUNE, 1965, I AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE, FROM WHICH HE GRADUATED , THAT SAME MONTH AND WHERE FOR FOUR YEARS HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE N.R,O.T,C, UNIT, AFTER GRADUATING FROM CIC SCHOOL IN SAN DIEGO, MR. ' BOWMAN JOINED PHILIP IN SEPTEMBER 1965, AND ASSUMED THE BILLET OF COMBAT INFORMATION CENTER OFFICER. MR. BOWMAN IS ALSO PHILIPIS ATHLETIC OFFICER, AND IF ANYONE CARES TO DISPUTE THE POINT MR. BOWMAN IS ALWAYS WILLING TO ACCEPT A CHALLENGE TO COMPETE IN ANY ATHLETIC EVENT. SO FAR HEVS NEVER BEEN DEFEATED. ...-vwlf' t 5, S 'w Z3 ZUJI viral' Q, ,xg E I 57 , I C GN f O , .Nw M . A X fa , .g f , ' ff f X ' qw 0 N ,, f f? n X fs I f Q ff W 1 F 5 N f 5 , J W i -Q' fx K I N ' ' 'IH X Q Z7 Q ' X4 i Z fs . SZ w f N ? wxy f v W . N X LIEUTENANT QJUNIOR GRADE, DAVID L. GUNN, USN LTCJGJ GUNN WAS COMMISSIONED IN JUNE 1965, AFTER HAVING GRADUATED AS A PHYSICAL SCIENCE MAJOR AT HARVARD COLLEGE. SINCE HE WAS A MEMBER OF HARVARDIS N,R.O,T,C. UNIT AND HAD MADE A WESTPAC CRUISE AS A MIDSHIPMAN, MR. GUNN WAS NOT ENTIRELY NEW TO NAVY LIFE WHEN HE REPORTED TO PHILIP AS FIRST LIEUTENANT IN SEPTEMBER 1965. FOR THE BETTER PORTION OF THIS CRUISE MR. GUNN WAS ZND DIVISION OFFICER. ALONG WITH HIS PRIMARY BILLET, MR. GUNN WAS KEPT BUSY DURING THE CRUISE WITH A BEVY OF COLLATERAL DUTIES NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH WERE SPECIAL SERVICE OFFICER AND TOUR OFFICER. MR. GUNN DEPARTED PHILIP FOR A FEW DAYS DURING THE CRUISE TO OBSERVE AN EXERCISE AND RENDER RECON- STRUCTION SERVICES ON USS POMONDON ISS-4867, AND UPON RETURNING, MR. GUNN REPORTED THAT PHILIP EVEN LOOKED GOOD THROUGH A PERISCOPEI

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