BACK TO WORK On October 29, CARPENTER was underway again ,' the next time we would set foot on land would be December 1. As I mentioned earlier our main duty in Westpac involved following aircraft carriers, the job of planeguarding. At least one, sometimes as many as three destroyer-type ships accompany every aircraft carrier on Yankee Station at all times. When the carrier is conducting jiight operations, the destroyers fall into a line astern, thus providing markers for pilots on landing patterns, as well as staying in position for recovery operations if a plane should hit the water. During the course of the cruise, the cry 'Now station the planeguard detail' became all too familiar to our ears, but the job become no less important.. 1 -ii ' - .. X 'if'-,mug X is XX - 1 1 -.,. -,,,.L' ..i-i.,,-- ,ff CARPENTER's mast silhouettes USS Con- stellation QCVA-64j, with whom we sailed during the better part of October, November, and December. Carrier operations on Yankee Station must operate without a second wasted. Here, as BM2 Gary Sheldon unrigs from an un- derway replenishment with USS Coral Sea CCVA-435, the carrier is already launching her planeguard helicopter for the next round of flight ops.
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