Carpenter (DD 825) - Naval Cruise Book

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During a Vertrep, or vertical re- plenishment, the transfer of stores is accomplished by helicopter from a stores ship. Here, a helo from U33 M-HFS CAFS-ll approaches fantail of CARPENTER with laden pallet. Although helicopters are used frequently to transfer personnel, the traditional hiline method is far from obsoletep here Qrightl, a passenger is transferred from USS England CDLG-225 to deck of CARPENTER. At left, stores are brought on deck by hiline crew. Q - . ' Q ' 'f-t7 .'Ii'W '- ' 1 -Kg 1 ' . - at - A ,.. Y' .ff sg.5'Jf it X 4- .- ' . 'fl' ' 'ff' .' . A W .fix A J . . -Fgff' , ,' 4 'rii.l17'iI'T7,,L.'?i7g 1 ' TQ .,.,' 3 V A its , ,, my rs fll at r :NI 'q k A, 2, -.g t g ffgigavfglllbyi i C, 3 l , A- U f -'ill i' .l am l 'lrl 2 1 ' '1'le'--WM N 5 so fsi!,lI'r4'a Qi ' ,' i in f , f r ' izllkogiis-el .g,zf if liz-i'Qqy5S'dn'5P'-1355 - . E r' ' ' A J Q5 A 5 l ' 1- 'r r ' , -f I

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I' STE, ': , W . N567 it Helicopters play an increasingly im- portant role as a link between the destroyer and the supplying ship. Almost every day, we heard the call 'Now station the helo transfer detail,' and we would always get our hopes up, because we knew this usually meant a mail delivery . . . TRANSFERS AT SEA Here, CARPENTER returns the favor by giving a drink of fuel to one of USS Bennington's QCVS-205 Sikorsky SH-3D heli- copters while in flight. One of Constellation's UH-1C planeguard helicopters delivers a Vietnamese petty officer aboard for duty, while BM3 Laloulu signals green deck.

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BANGKOK Bangkok, Thailand, more than any other port we touched, was foreign, per- haps mostly because few Navy ships go there. We manned the rail while sailing up fifteen miles of the Mae Nam Chao Phya River to our anchorage, and we saw expanses of marshy jungle, houses built on pilirigs, and, in their midst, mag- nijicent Wats. The city itself was filled with intriguing contrasts: modern hotels and ancient temples, people in Western clothes with Eastern customs, bustling trafic and booming business, and, only a few miles away, near-primitive exist- ence in the dusty outskirts . . . ,. 'l- 'l . , Z.,--4 ....-...... 1 ,,.... 5 Z'- . 44 It . 3 .,.1,,,, c f 1-no 53- . . if , , X '? xv 4 , ' ' W i l k - -ami fr i , r - f- -' f ,, E ! is Qt l 'f rg 55315 ' ,Q 1 ,..1, A A ' RT , I Q Z .-RQ .E - Er: -17' , i . 4f,f,lm, ?5f,.1.t'.!f 3:1 44's X iiiA,g,,Zgfff5 355553, Qsumaiffi , -'nf ,va es!!! -. 11 ' ' aff- ' ' ,,. ,. w t -9 . g ', QT 4 1: it ,X j:g,i1?,,j..:Q, 'i Q., -W :::A -1 'Z'--I- ' 1 T 5-,-,--- ---le. - 1 'X b' i iL '? ' : 'hf!' ' f u Q Q X -'-'- - ,..,... ..4n.i, X ir ,.., Y - ', L 1 w r Ai i U V -- 13- .. .. Af , , , . . . - , f 1 X x , ,g i ff k ti .V , ,.- - A , k g vljysgtw. --M 1132, -I K .1115 , L ve . . 'A ew W A ' ' K One's first view of the Bangkok atmosphere, on coming up the river, is the multitude and variety of Thailand's water conveyances. -. .4-H .'