America (CV 66) - Naval Cruise Book

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, ,n:--'nmmum-nmnnzws 11-.V - . . ,g - :,' ...J 3. .1.:.. .z '. '... . : '. , 1 ., :....' Commanding Officer C Capt. Robert B. Fuller Captain Robert B. Fuller became commanding Officer of AMERICA in early September while the ship was at an- chor in Palma de Majorca, Spain. Captain Fuller's experiences have included fighter and attack squadrons on both coasts, Combat Information School, Aide and Flag Lieutenant to Carrier Division Seven, Armed Forces staff college and the Bureau of Naval Personnel. Captain Fuller was serving as C.O. of Attack Squadron 76 when he was shot down in july of 1967. He was held as a prisoner of war until his release in March 1973. On August 6, 1974, Capt. Fuller became Commanding Officer of USS DETROIT KAOE-41 His decorations include the Navy Cross two Silver Stars Legion of Merit four Distinguished Flying Crosses two Bronze Stars eleven Air Medals three Navy Com mendation Medals and two Purple Hearts .fw- 1 N.4n. . ....... . 'sts ttziaez--:w:z 11sft

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E k..-EngI., ' 5 ,B COMM NDI C OI-I-ICER Captain Daniel G. McCormick, III September 1974 - September, 1976 The Commanding Officer of an aircraft car- rier wears a variety of hats and is known by a variety of titles: Captain, skipper, the ol' man, and Sir. Captain Daniel G. McCormick lll joined AMERICA in September, 1974 and departed two years later. During Captain McCormick's tour as Commanding Officer, AMERICA underwent an extensive 11-month overhaul in the Norfolk Naval Shipyards, the ship was converted to the new CV-concept and the new F-14 Tomcat and S-3 Viking were added. Leaving in mid-September, Captain McCormick commanded AMERICA through- out most of this Mediterranean cruise. s sf 'ir - xxx.. 753 f' 'T t In tsss as

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-x ll 4 fl Commander l.C. BREAST lleftl and Commander T.N. FORTENBERRY 2- 5' L- Q' f 7 If Executive Gfficer Captain jerry C. Breast took over duties as AMERlCA's Executive Officer when he re- lieved Commander Thomas N. Fortenberry on 5 june 1976. As nearly everyone knows, the Executive Officer has practically nothing to do, except decide what is to be done, to tell somebody to do it, to listen to reasons why it should not be done, why it should be done by somebody else, or why it should be done in a different wayg to follow up to see if the thing has been done, to discover that it has not, to enquire why, to listen to excuses from the person who should have done it, to follow up again to see if the thing has been done, only to discover that it has been done incorrectlyg to point out how it should have been done, to conclude that as long as it has been done it may as well be left where it isp to wonder if it is not time to chew out a person who cannot do a thing right, to reflect that he probably has a wife and large family, and that any relief would be just as bad and probably worseg to consider how much simpler and better the thing would have been done if one had done it oneself in the first placeg to reflect sadly that one would have done it correctly in twenty minutes, and as things turned out it has taken two days to find out why it has taken three weeks for somebody to do it incorrectly. X . N 1 ' ',, , f' V 'X -Z X l,,. ll L. 1 -, an - 1 ji Y. - -3 . -- . ..--.,, ,..--4.--V 1 f , 5- WJ, WV? 4 .gf A ' ' W' ' A' Y- '- ' 11'+'-1'- ' f- -+11-w-iw--.-.ge.L.,.wL'......4z-.-.W....a.:-L5g , '..z.....,.gt5gj:z:':2f,1Qilg::-:5:.g.gf,1141211:r.'g1:'.Zr2s2-.-1-.1 'g:l:i. gIg'7'