Carpenter (DD 825) - Naval Cruise Book

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N, au! 1.1! QA F3 15 1 ff To the Folks Back Home, This is my first opportunity to write since reporting aboard USS CARPENTER CDD-8255. We'oe been pretty busy latew, preparing for our deployment to the Western Pacific, or ' Westpac,' as it's called out here. By way of history, CARPENTER was commissioned in December 1949 and has been homeported in Pearl Harbor since 1950, her a charter member of the 'Pineapple Fleet. ' She fought in the Korean War and won Jive battle stars there, and she made two cruises prior to this one during the Vietnam conflict. In 1965 she underwent a major FRAM 1 overhaul . . . r'

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Now when we hear the word passed ' CARPENTER Howard N. Kay a1'1'z'vz'ng, ' it is Commander D For Commander Kay, a 1948 graduate of the Naval Academy, CARPENTER marks the sixth comm- and at sea in a career that has given him duty on both coasts, as well as the Far East and Ethiopia. Commander Kay assumed com- mand on September 9, one week before departure for Westpac, and, before the cruise was long underway, his calmness and sense of humor had left their beneficial mark on CARPENTER. CARPENTER's executive officer, since July, 1968, is Lieutenant Commander Duncan F. Dempster, shown here performing his duties as navigator with his own century-old sextant. Lieutenant Commander Dempster, a graduate of Princeton University, came to CARPENTER after a tour as chief engineer aboard USS Joseph Strauss CDDG-165: with a knack for writing witty and unique editions of the Plan of the Day, and an easy-going style of getting things accomplished, he quickly establish- ed himself as a popular figure with all hands.