Rogers (DD 876) - Naval Cruise Book

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HO SAID these pages are inaccurate? True . . . not exactly all our unreps were in the daytime such as the ones shown here. But unfortunately, the assorted delights of midnight replenishment are hard to capture on film. We were a thirsty ship. The Thirty Knot Ghost of the Vietnam Coast needed a drink every two or three days and we were forced to oblige. ln our 49 refuelings, we received a Rogers cruise record of 3,204,339 gallons of NSFO, This is about 4OfZp of the total fuel received since leaving Charleston Naval Shipyard in June 1964. We were hungry, too. ln spite of occasional rumb- lings of discontent from the mess decks, an amazing amount of food was consumed. We took on jumbo olives from the Sacramento, six-way beef from the Pictor, and crunchy peanut butter from the Regulus. As for spare parts to restock our rapidly emptying storerooms . . . well . . . that's another story. As our Supply Officer would say, Have patiencehace. !7 Y, 4 Rigging the high line The after station all-stars Z G lm' An

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F A 5 S JP-5 flows skyward II OOD MORNING, Fetch 51, you have a green deck . . . my wind is 30 degrees to port at 18 knots. And so began another busy day at Bullseye International. Thirsty helos were everywhere, it seemed. In April alone we refueled 37 of them with 11,362 gallons of JP-5. In June a record 55 helos--the most ever refueled by a Seventh Fleet destroyer in one month--were given 17,191 gallons from our tanks. I2 t There were other birds in the air, too. Helos bringing mail, spare parts, and chaplains . . . and taking away letters to home, personnel for transfer, and our beloved ailing Operations Officer. Even our own DASH got in the spirit of things by spreading its rotors in re- alistic full flight on several occasions. The air age has truly invaded the destroyer Navy . . and we were a part of it all the way.