Chemung (AO 30) - Naval Cruise Book

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i fl Bf jRfl H ud H f965 - f 66 Captain Craning came to CHEMUNG from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in August, 1965. An Annapolis ( ' 43) graduate, he began his naval career as a Black Shoe but soon switched to aviator training. A distin- guished Airedale, he has served aboard USS TARAWA (CVA-40) and USS YORK- TOWN (CVS-10), commanded a fighter squadron — VF-114 — and qualified as a test pilot. Captain Craning and his wife, the former Marguerite-Jean Tucker, bothfrom Rochester, New York, are now living with their son in Corpus Christi, Texas, where the Captain became Chief of Staff of Ad- vanced Naval Air Training after 1 e a v i ng CHEMUNG. i966 - i967 Captain Montgomery, coming from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, met CHEMUNG in S a s ebo, Japan in A ugu s t, 1966. He also has pursued the career of a naval aviator, serving in such diverse positions as CIC and Operations Of f ic er aboard USS VALLEY FORGE (CVA-45), in- structor at NAS, Corpus Christi, Texas, and Commanding Officer of Patrol Squadron 56, NAS, Norfolk, Virginia. Cap- tain Montgomery and his wife, the former Mary Pittman, are both natives of Texas, and they have four children. Prior to en- tering the Navy through the AVCAD pro- gram, the Captain was a college professor.

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cu a cifit cK CHEMUNG went to WESTPAC with one Commanding Officer and returned with another. Captain Craning, who skippered the ship until the eleventh hour of the deployment, was relieved by Captain Montgomery prior to the return voyage. Fittingly, the ceremony took place during an UNREP. :. :| ,- ' -, Jl - ' V-;r-

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LC DR Flynn reported aboard CHEMUNG in March, 1965, after a two- year tour of duty with the training division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Wash- ington, D.C, He is a marine engineering graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Since embarking on a naval career, he has served on the USS ALAMEDA COUNTY (LST-32),USS TARAWA (CVS-40), USS IREX (SS-482)— he is a graduate of Submarine School— and USS MULIPHEN (AKA-61). LCDR Flynn and his wife, the former Carol Cudihy, come from Salem, Massachusetts, and they have two small children. i Utcncf ( t e S ifr USS CHEMUNG (A0-30),one of the old- est fleet oilers in the United States Navy, is 553 feet long, 75 feet wide, and displaces approximately 25,000 tons of water when fully loaded. Carrying 300 men and 15 of- ficers, CHEMUNG ' S primary mission is delivering fuel oil, gasoline and other pe- troleum products to combatant ships of the fleet while underway, in order to en able them to carry out sustained operations. In her cargo tanks CHEMUNG can carry up to 5,082,000 gallons of Navy Special Fuel Oil, 780,000 gallons of jet fuel (JP-5), and 588,000 gallons of high octane aviation gas- oline. The ship ' s maximum speed is 18 knots, and her present armament consists of four 3-inch 50-caliber dual-purpose mounts. Originally built as a merchant tanker, the ESSO-ANNAPOLIS, CHEMUNG owes her naval career to the rapid build-up of a mobile support force just prior to World War n. The Navy pure has ed her from Standard Oil of New Jersey, re-fitted her as a naval vessel in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and commissioned her on 3 July 1941. She was pressed into service imme- diately. From her commissioning to the end of the war, CHEMUNG was never idle. Speed-