Ranger (CVA 61) - Naval Cruise Book

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l'iC 22 XDEPARTURE ODYSSEY ships, etc. A deployment, a cruise, a WestPac . . . all these are terms attributed to a ship's travels overseas, but a more accurate word might be an odyssey. When a ship like Ranger goes overseas for eight months her crew does travel quite a bit, they do endure hardships and most certainly they enjoy many notable experiences. A Western Pacific deployment is truly an Odyssey. ski '-,,,.N Od-ys-sey fod'isej, n. 1. an epic poem attributed to Homer, describing Odysseus' adventures in his ten-year attempt to return to Ithaca after the Trojan War. 2. any long series of wanderings, esp. when filled with notable experiences, hard- But every odyssey, no matter what its length, has got to have a beginning. For Ranger there were a series of beginnings, each significant in its own way. As far back as January 1975 we began getting Ranger in shape to make an overseas journey. After that, we had the task of preparing ourselves to fight the ship. Our Engineers had to get the ship ready for its numerous propulsion tests. The rest of Ranger's crew had to polish their skills in their particular departments CVW 2 Ranger s air wing had to begin learning to operate with ship s company personnel once again ln other words Ranger had to start functioning as a team ggvq ., . . . . l