Sandoval (APA 194) - Naval Cruise Book

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SANDOVAL departed Norfolk on I8 March wut. yotuig nd Agpnd' Group eager for action and ably reinforced by a few, but talented, veterans from pas, deployments. This combination proved a large success as, landing after landing, SAND! OVAL boat crews exhibited a skill, a knowledge and a finesse in handling our 12 LCVP's, 2 LCM-6's and 2 LCPL's the C'aptain's Gig that brought credit and notice to the ship. Phiblex 10-69 was held at Timbakion, Crete on 7 April and despite a different ap- proach to the beach by SANDOVAI.'s ten boat wave, this first landing went well, Later the same month SANDOVAL was to participate in Dawn Patrol, a combined NATO landing exercise utilizing Italian, British and Greek Naval forces. However, high winds and rough seas at Porta Scuda, Sardinia caused cancellation of the proposed exercise, After a month of relative inactivity SANDOVAL took part in another NATO exercise -Olympic Express-held on 5 June at Strimon River, Greece, Here units of British Commandos assaulted the beach by helicopter while American and Italian units went ashore by landing craft. By this time our crews were coming into their own through experience and a great improvement was noted. Crew discipline and skill was now at its highest level for the conducting of landing exercises for squadron competition. Competitive exercises for fiscal year '69 and '70 were held at Malta in late June and at Navplion, Greece in early July respectively. Dis- playing amazing knowledge of their duties, all crews performed well and earned SANDOVAL her fourth and fifth consecutive annual Amphibious Assault Award and the right to wear the gold Amphibious Assault Award. Throughout the cruise our Boat Group improved significantly. In addition to then fine landing record, they also put in long hours and hard work in getting men ashore for liberty and beach parties in many areas where we could not go pierside. ,,f 7, ,t

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2 1 The Geedunk i . . The Ship's Store . . . . E' Y1 .1 H W 9 1 Deck Department Consumed 1 The Storekeepers Issued i . The Corpsmen . , . The Water King ,... I TheOHKmg,U 1 1 Operations Department .. 1: li li if il ll if Qi 1 H cK:., 1 li ll 11 il i il li ll 'I i 1 2 1 And We Carried ....4.... 1 CONSUMPTION Served 208,216 soft drinks Sold 9,102 bars of soap Sold 2,231,200 cigarettes Did f13135,000.00 Worth of selling Sold 5.800 rolls of film 591,436.85 Worth of deck gray paint 1,536 glasses to the mess decks 32,000 paper cups to coffee messes 1,848,000 feet of toilet paper 33710.40 Worth of rags Treated 1,650 patients lssued 3,130 prescriptions Took 565 X-rays Performed 1 1f2 appendectomies Distilled 4,953,326 of water for a total of 6,521,392 gallons consumed or 42.903 gallons per day Used 1,044,328 gallons of fuel oil and 12,576 gallons of Diesel Oil at a cost of over fBl25,000.00 lncluding the Kavalla Oil Spill Consumed 250 pounds of coffee and 1,800 feet of DRT paper Tracked 1,673 shipping contacts iw' 1 Used 233.3 feet of grease pencfl grease 961.7 inches of pencil 59,400 feet of masking tape 2 . 600 maneuvering boards 307 Enlisted Navy Personnel 667 Enlisted Marine Personnel 22 Marine Officers 26 Navy Officers 14 Marine Corpsmen 10 Midshipmen sl.. ' ii, , 111 - - Q1 f C, 1 Chaplain '