Catamount (LSD 17) - Naval Cruise Book

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SUPPLY There were 2,817,600 cigarettes sold last year by the Catamount ' s ship ' s store. There were approximately a third of a million meals served on the ship in a year ' s time, at which 130,000 pounds of potatoes and 60 tons of meat were consumed. The crew drank 82,302 cokes in a year, received 11,000 haircuts, and was paid a total of $399,201.13 by the disbursing office. Two officers and forty-two men are responsible fur all of this. They are the supply officers, the storekeepers, commis- sarymen, ship ' s service men, and stewards. They form the Supply department. Not only do they issue all the supplies and equipage necessary for the ship, but they are involved in the procurement, receipt, inventory control, and accounting for it all. Medical supplies and ammunition are the only items which do not fall into their realm of responsibility. They manage to keep busy. The department prepares and serves all the food on the ship. It provides the salaries for the crew. It operates the clothing and small stores issue room, the ship ' s store, barber shop, tailor shop, laundry, and soda fountain. It pays travel vouchers and allotments, exchanges yen for MPC, arranges for foreign goods to be sold on the ship, keeps from overobligating and overexpcnding the ship ' s quarterly allotment, and furnishes every department on the ship everything from rubber bands to steel plates. Although it is rcsj)onsiblc for the word to he ]iassed, All hands not actually on watch lay down to the port wingwail to handle stores, few can find groiin ' .ls for complaint witli the department. Without it, the crew would be curling -long locks of hair, dirty, ])rnnilcss, ragged, and starved. The Supply dej)artment comes in handy. Lieutenant George J. Kost, head of the Supply department, was ccmmissioned in 1943 and has served on the Catamount ' since May, 1953. He previously was Assist- ant Personriel officer in the Material Division, Washington, D. C, and served as Armed Guard Commander aboard the S. S. David B. Johnson. He also served aboard the S. S. John E. Schmeltzer, was assistant supply officer AMAG in Athens, Greece, three and a half years, and was Machine Records Department head at the Naval Supply Depot in San Diego two and a half years. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and his home is Chicago. His wife and daughter live in San Diego, California. Lt. j. g. Fernar.d F. Willoz, III is disbursing officer on the Catamount and also S division officer. He received his commis- sion at Tulane University in June, 1952, and attended the Navy Supply Corps School at Oakland, California. He served seven mcnths at USNAS, Quonset Point, R. I., and three months on the US3 Kearsarge ;CVA-33) before coming to the Catamount in October, 1953. His home is New Orleans, La., and he is a graduate of Tulane, where he majored in political science. — 54 —

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Suell, Curtis, SDM Ford, Lecesler, SN Marahall, Clarence D., TN Rouse, Charles F., TN Swinehart, Howard, SN Bogacz, Edward S., SN Gillaspie, Clintell, TN Massle, Roy, SN Snodqrass, Richard A., DKSN Taylor, James F., SN Clayton, Carl, TN Gonzales, Henry, SN Nunes, Anthony, SN Spain, Lloyd, SN Tomko, Joseph, SN Dutton, Kaydon, SA Hawley, Andrew E., CSSN Potter, Albert L., SN Smith, Levie, TN Wright, Carlton C, CSSN — 66 -