Ashtabula (AO 51) - Naval Cruise Book

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SECCND DI I I0 The second division is the major half of the deck department's deck force, and when reveille goes, inport or at sea, the deck apes of the working second are already up and about. The Boatswains Mates with their coffee cups in hand and pressed dungarees, hollering orders to the working backbone of the Navy: the SEAMAN. LTJG Marslender from Washington, North Carolina, Second Division Officer is always on hand and available to the men, at times even acting as chaplain. Breland BMI from Covington La. is the division's Leading Petty Officer, known throughout the Far East as the Honchof' Untiring, he carries the big load of the second. The second never hollers for help - they always say get Breland, with assistance from R. M. Boyer, BM2 from Long Beach, California, C. Adkinson, BM2 from Long Beach, California and H. Tarrants, BM3 from Pochontas, Arkansas, and the job is always completed in the best traditions of the Navy-4.0 fashion. The seamen are proud of their record 4oo plus ships replenished, working around the clock, available at all hours, doing the job in humid, hot weather with temperatures sometimes above loo degrees. Rain or shine they never stopped and when the dreaded rough seas and storms came they never backed away. The men of the second can handle it, they run the heavy weather fuel stations with their 7 inch 3oo foot hoses. They fuel anything that comes alongside from the small mine sweepers to the worldis largest lighting ships, the carriers. Routine work for the division goes like clockwork. With their Honcho Breland hollering lets go apes, and the seamen answering you got that right, you can count on 4.0 results when the job is completed.

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