St Louis (LKA 116) - Naval Cruise Book

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B DIVI IO At sea B Division has to be ready to handle any might come up. They weren't disappointed as many times they worked around the clock to keep us moving. It takes a f willingness to work hard and long hours. It also takes a lot o self-sacrifice and total insanity. Before deployment, there were plenty of examinations and training sessions. OPPE, REFTRA and PEB to name but a few and then came WESTPAC. Along with it came the long days of steaming. Whether at sea or in a Liberty Port, you just canlt walk out of the hole and let the whole process do it by itself fmuch as they might like to havei. And if working all day and part of the night didn't get you into a straightjacket, then the heat and humidity would give it a try. crisis that 5 . ., ' r F .' ' .1 I 5 B Q BTC ARNOLD B if B y I i T H! 4 I . 41 .5 A . . xt ,A FJ .1 X , J' E B if BTFN HENSLEY BTC ' if HAMER BT1 BROWN BTFA PHILPOT BT3 RESENDEZ FN SNOWBARGER 66 12

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DIIIO Most of the work in M Division can be described in two words: d d' t Thou h they may vary in intensity, you rarely have hot an ir y. g one without the other. With a work center known throughout the Navy as The Pit , EM01 is famous for its hard working, and hard drinking, oily, smelly pit snipe . On the Lou, with an engineering f th ' b plant in dire need of overhaul, the obvious discomforts o e jo are compounded by administrative blunders. The lack of tools and parts support are perhaps our greatest frustrations. And yet with handicaps like these and many more, there can still be found sometimes, a sense of pride for a successful and ontime light off. Why not feel good? You should try to light off an engineering plant or overhaul a pump with two paint scrapers and twenty 13f16 wrenches. Ginn'- t' Q X I 1, f 55' K D l 0 e 0 X lv I v -,f i dy Q kk . -.,,,,-14 nunu, Y 1'vu:.1' , MMCS JAFC 1 W ER, MM MAYHARY, MMQ LANIDIS, I