Worden (CG 18) - Naval Cruise Book

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54 19 1 S if Land! It's land! - Nah, how can you tell? 42 WORDEN'S quartermasters were responsible for knowing exactly where the ship was, keeping her on track, and recording all the information necessary for reconstructing events in the Ship's Deck Logs. The men responsible for safely navigating WORDEN were LTjg Frank Martin, Division Officer, QMC Scott Shumway, QM2 Randy Hayme, QM2 Todd McClain, QM3 Vin- cent Stazione, QM3 Patrick Durbin, QM3 Paul Degiorgi and QMSN John Brizendine. From a QM's point of view patrolling the Persian Gulf was truly challenging. Visibility was down to six miles and would sometimes worsen to three miles be- cause of sandstorms. It was hotf' QM3 Durbin recalled. Our air conditioning was working but it wasn't cold. It was a definite challenge keeping the ship on course with low visibility and at the same time keeping out of the Iranllraq war zone, he said. Tension was high and for me the most challenging thing about WESTPAC was just getting qualified for my watches, said QMSN Brizendine. The Persian Gulf was a vacation for me compared to my tour in Lebanon, QM2 McClain proclaimed. It was a piece of cake, really. My most memorable mo- ment in the Gulf was drinking a cold draft beer in the Bahrain Holiday Inn at two dinars each. What was challenging about the Gulf was trying to stretch your money when one diner was equal to 32.65 Aside from standing watches eating and sleeping the entire crew found themselves cleaning the ship every day due to the harsh environment Just imagine a float ing desert and you ll know what we went through The sand penetrated our equipment caused lots of trouble so intense cleaning was a daily requirement I ...X E .3

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Th World Famou hip' fflce 51 Ns-. YNs - L to R, YN2 Pesefea Fia They call lt The World Famous Ship s Off1C8 No one IS qu1te sure how the tltle was conjured up but It s catchy and It has stuck The Yeo man CYNJ and Personnelmen CPNJ share the offlce and belng shlpmates they also share workloads when there IS a SWEATEX Cthats Navy Jargon for I need It yesterday J Dld the Shlps Off1C6 personnel stay enclosed 1n thelr adm1n1strat1ve world during the potentlally hostlle operatlons 1n the Perslan Gulfl Noooo way' PNCCSWD Ray SDICUZZH fa? seu, YN3 John Martinez, YNCKSWJ Nestor Abellana and YN3 Eugene Tacke YNCKSWJ Abby Abellana PN1 Dlver Dan Patlent and YN3 Gene Tacke were 50 cal gunners of all th1ngs If that wasn t enough RP3 Peter Selv1g and PNSN J1m Mal k ec 1 quahfled and stood after steerlng h watc es What about YN2 FIHSSU brey Taylor? Well M3If1D6Z and Taylor were phone talkers on the brld d ge ur1ng General Quarters and Flaseu manned the phones 1n Dam age Control Central Yes the Shl p s Off1C6 d1d much more than just push s84P s paper Durlng the deployment 1n addl t1on to the dally routlne of the X0 S heads and beds thlrty of WOR DEN S shlpmates were transferred to other commands elght memb6fS went on emergency leave 15 reP0ft ed on board and over 3 000 service record entrles were made All th1ngS consldered lt was an excellent and busy deployment The crew was hap py wlth the servlce and thatS enough to quahfy as World Fam ous 1n our eyes ' U CC 77 ' 3 ' Y! ' ' CC ' 77 ' , -. ' .- . ' . . , I I - , ' 1 n n . , - 7 . ' v ' - . , , . , , . 7 . ' l 2 7 - ' YN3 John Mart1nez and YNSN Au- , ' cc ' 97 , , ' Us Q , n . . , ' . . . . . . . , , a - . 0- . . . l . ' . Q . . . I . , D :K - . . , . . , ' 7, .