Canisteo (AO 99) - Naval Cruise Book

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PNSN H. W. Trent PNSN R. N. Fields RP3 K. W. Davis yTX. .cVO- Engineering A GANG z- a 5 ze;- ' cQi Officer ■ tJiCn iSi ENC ' S.v; 3 =e.e-e W S. Epperson MM1 B. J. Bryant MM3 R. G. O ' Deil 19

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Disbursing Division (S-4) S-4 (Disbursing) Division is responsible for maintaining more than 350 officer and enlist- ed pay accounts, making a total monthly re- sponsibility of over $180,000. Although they enjoy uncommon ship- wide popularity tw ice a month, they none- theless earn a bad reputation for themselves when new sailors check aboard. In doing their job so well, they find a lot of improperly maintained pay accounts arriving from previ- ous commands. In most cases — for exam- ple, overpayment from a previous com- mand, out of balance LES ' s, personnel not retaining receipts for depts incurred during TAD or PCS moves — it means bad news for the customer, On the other hand, DK ' s enjoy getting to know everyone on the ship. The DK1 and two DK3 ' s in the office ensure that every- one ' s pay problems get fixed as quickly and painlessly as possible. Accountability is al- ways maintained. Cargo Ammo Division (S-9) The Cargo Ammo Division (S-9) consists of those gunner ' s mates who load out and transfer munitions to the fleet. They maintain the magazine sprinkler systems, eductors and ordinance handling equipment. While CANISTEO is underway, they assist the Third Division gunner ' s mates man the 3 50 mounts and machine gun stations at GQ and Condition III, stand Main Deck Security watches, fly shotlines and tend phone-and- distance lines during unreps. During the year they successfully com- pleted three successful Ordance Handling Safety Assist Team (OHSAT), Nuclear Weap- ons Assist Team (NWAT) and Combat Systems Readiness Review (CSRR) inspec- tions. With less than a month ' s notice, they brought onboard a specially tailored load of cargo ammo for the Iowa battlegroup de- ployment. While CANISTEO was in the Med this close-knit family of nine safely transferred over 500 tons of warfare. Inport, besides maintaining and preserv- ing their magazine spaces, the S-9 gunners stand quarterdeck watches, guard paylines, and escort the disbursing officer to the bank. 18 LT(jg) E, P Voge Administration Officer NCC(SW) J, Benford Command Center Counselor ADMIN PC1(SW) A. R. Griffith PCSN W. T, Zeveney, RM1 R, C, Hart Ship ' s Postmaster Jr. Master-at-Arms HM3 A, Blacl burn, Jr. HM3 K R, Johnson YN1 W, I, Fuller Ship ' s Secretory

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Administration Dept. How can you sum up the professionalism and great customer service provided by CANISTEO ' s Administration Department? If you had a little fever or a sore body, the corpsmen were always there to help out. Thanks to the postal clerks, the mail al- ways got through, whether we were in St. Vincent or the Aegean. If you had a question concerning any- thing in that mysterious service record, the personnelmen were always glad to interpret an answer, if it existed, And if you needed a letter typed or a last-minute power of Attorney drawn up, you knew the yeomen would have it in their typewriter that very instant! These were their good points . . . They were warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Their hands never got dirty unless they had been tangling with carbon paper. They used their brain power instead of their brawn in the execution of their du- ties, and even in the execution of the annual physical fitness test. Like the old saying goes, It ' s a tough job, but someone has to do it. A Division They keep the freezers frozen; they keep the ovens roasting. They make ice cream and hot water. They make sure that the boatswain ' s mates can heave around on the anchor, and they make sure the quarter- masters can shift the rudders. They ' re sup- posed to keep the ship cool in the summer and warm in the winter (and they usually do.) They run diesel engines that are three times bigger than the average automobile, and they run them on jet fuel, The A-Gangers take core of every piece of engineering that is not associated with underway replenishment or main propul- sion. For this reason, there ' s hardly a space on the ship that the enginemen and machin- ist ' s mates of A Division can ' t claim some ownership within. They have a lot of equipment, and a lot to be proud of. They point out that they kept all of their machinery operational all year long, and that the SADGs didn ' t run out of gas a single time in 1987. Now if only they could make shore steam as reliable. MM3 A. W. Powell MMFN D. J, Ekdahl EN2(SW) B, F. Luke EN3 M. F. PIcciano EN3 t, E. Stewart ENFN E. J. Freiwald EDIV. EMC(SW) J, A, Millete Leading Chief Petty Officer 20 EM1 A. A, Alemelor EM2 B, S, Alexander EM2 G, S, Steimling Leading Petty Officer