Chemung (AO 30) - Naval Cruise Book

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i Stretch! That ' s my boy. i The Admiral says somebody on the cargo deck forgot to inflate his life jacket. Big Brother IS watchmgus. Tis better to give. ...than to receive. From the grinning corpsman, who probably just remembered that you had some shots coming, to the sun-baked winch operators, everyone got into the act during UNREPS. Different ships and situations exercised just about every capacity of CHEMUNG.

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S xc 0 tAc Uc Time spent in Subic dwindled to a minor matter compared to the con- tinuing experience of cruising with the Seventh Fleet. The multi-faceted world of the UNREP eludes descrip- tion, but the following pictures may tell more than many futile words. The Big E , USS ENTERPRISE (CVAN-65), required many preparations by CHEMUNG before the UNREP. I, i» J . Last minute conference: How do we play this one, Coach? LT Casselberry terrorized the cargo deck that day.

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As the year progressed, CHEMUNG refueled just about every tjqae of Navy ship in the Far East. Each presented different problems of rigging. We had to be versatile. Amphib, Cruiser, Minesweep — all came to CHEMUNG, even a MIKE-boat from USS KRISHNA (anchored at a safe distance this time). Lube oil drums were in universal de- mand, according to the disgruntled storekeepers. V l iji ' ' ' t No, they ' re not depth charges, but we carry just about everything else for the discerning customer ship, from soda pop to jet wing tanks to toilet paper. Under Mr. Proffer. CHExMUNG became a kind of floating GSK. 7 S l » l» ' ' -». K fc ' ' (. «u ' »i, „. ' ■«- ' ' . ««L I . Il ¥..