Wedderburn (DD 684) - Naval Cruise Book

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SUPPLY DE PARTME T The Supply Department, under the direction of LTJG Long, had a tough job keeping nearly three hundred men fed, and seeing that the ship was fully stocked with all the unimaginable parts each rate calls for. Making sure there was enough chow, and that it was served both in quantity and quality, was the job of the Commissarymen, Feeding a couple of hundred men, three times a day, seven days a week, involves a lot of chow. Taking all that fresh, frozen, and dried food and turning it into something both edible, and nourishing takes skill and imagination. Even though we suffered through a few moments of scarcity, nobody seems to have suffered starvation. Everyone in the enlisted ranks has had to go mess cooking. For those who have partaken of this unique form of existence, the memoryis still too close to describe it with fairness, and for those who have never been a mess cook, even Shakespeare would find words im- possible to describe those wonderful and action-packed three months. In charge of supply the Store Keepers have a job whose number of items is astronomical. What- ever it is that you need, it has a Federal Stock Number, and at least twelve other numbers thrown in to foul you up. These hardy men of numbers have to keep all those parts either on hand, or close at order. One man on the ship probably knows his shipmates better by their hairline than by their faces. The barber has aunique relation with the crew in that he knows all but tells none. So don't ever cross him, because hc'll let out one of those big whoppers that you did not think anybody knew about. The Stewards Mates were a silent, but a moving force in the ships general happiness, for if they took cure of the officers, the officers were happy. Happy and well c-ontcntecl officers make :lliz1p1JyC'1'Gw. When an officer ate on the mess decks there was no need to sweat quarters..everyone knew it would be a long day. Then there is the man who enjoys the pluceofhonor in our hearts, the Little Ole Disbursing Clerk, who hands out ull those lovely greenbacks. Hours passed, it seems, when we had to wait in the chow line, but c-anne time to collect that Combat Pay, and none seemed to mind the line. when all that battle pay was on the other end. R Sv U 4 F - V 'v LAMORY was A Sm., 24 P

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