Washburn (AKA 108) - Naval Cruise Book

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ADMIN! TRA no The Administration Department Consisting only of X Division, was the Department responsible for handling the administrative work for the ship. We prepared orders for men that were trans- ferred, did the paper work on men we received twe actually transferred and received 131 men during the cruise, which is 55 percent of the total crew we started withlj , prepared all outgoing correspondence Qsometimes two or three times for each letter! , sorted through and routed incoming mail, did all the paper work associated with the legal problems we had on board, and maintained the service records for both the officers and enlisted men. We did all of this in the Ship's Of- fice which seemed to us like a great two ended funnel with us The X,O, inspects. Y -,,,XQ,,Ji Smith, R,, Greenwood YN1, Simon, G,W,, Shay, J,T,, lst LT Goshey. in the middle and a giant standing at either end stuffing paper through while we massaged that continuing stream of paper as it flew by in both directions! Our work wasn't all paper though. We were called upon to stand watches in the Combat ln- formation Center QCICQ for a while, training the radarmen. At Thon My Thuy we worked on the hatches showing the Deck Force personnel how to rig slings and stays and such. We also stood watches on the bridge helping the Captain and the Officer of the Deck navigate the ship. We even took our turn at the Debarkation Control Station directing the loading or off-loading of the ship for the Executive Officer. Of course, in between all these jobs we sat in the funnel massaging the paper as it streamed by.

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With all the various tasks we were assigned to do, we were , 4 spread out so much that our Division Officers lst LT GOSHEY and our leading Pet- ty Officer, Yeoman First Class 1 GREENWOOD gave up trying to n supervise us and just super- n vised each other although it's i hard to tell - We in the Division . never did see much of each Q other during the cruise what fi with being loaned out here and there for different watches, f 1 maybe even Mr. GOSHEY and if Greenwood were on the Watch Q bill TOO! i I Extra! Extra! Send Mike 6 to Blue 5, Ships Office at work. Nightly car games