Chourre (ARV 1) - Naval Cruise Book

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Formosan operations and reported aboard the CHOUBRE on 20 Feburary Q I '1 el, i I i. xl- l S I l I l ll Il il gl 'V' i 1 4- 1. l l i l i I Ii I 1. Lieutenant K. W. MULLIGAN, the ship's Navigator, was born in Providence Rhode Island. He Was graduated from the Portsmouth Priory Preparatory School in Portsmouth, Pt. I., and entered Yale University in 1942. He left Yale in 1943 and accepted an appointment to the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point, New York. He went to sea as a Midshipman and participated in the invasion ot North Atricia, Sicily and Italy. He survived the loss ot his ship in the invasion ot Italy and Was awarded the Maritime Commission Enemy Combat Service Medal. In 1944 he was graduated from King's Point and retired a 10th Company Commander. In November 1950, Lieutenant Mulligan, reported for duty aboard the USS CHIMON CAKS-319. He served a tour with this vessel as First Lieutenant in the Korean and 1952. Lieutenant Robert R. Klamt, the ships Medical Oiticer, was born in Ashton, ftdaho. He was graduated irom the University of Idaho in 1942, with a Bachelor of Science degree and entered the naval service as an enlisted Inan shortly thereafter. After completion ot tuvo years general- service in the U. S. Naval Reserve he entered Greighton Medical School and received his medical degree in 1948. He is a member ot the honorary medical fraternity and served his internship at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Long Beach, California. Dr. Klamt established his own generalpractioe. He Was ordered to active service in December 1951. Lieutenant Iunior Grade E. M. Mayer, the ship's Dental Officer, attended Georgetown University, .Washington, D. C., graduating in 1951 with a DDS. Hel is a member of Cmicron and Kappa Epsilon Fraternities. Commissioned an Ensign, U. 'S..Naval. Iteserve, in September 1950, he saw duty at the Paris Island Marine Base and in early 1951 was transferred to the Brooklyn Naval Base, Brooklyn, N. YQ Prior to reporting to the Chourre on 1 September 1952, Dr. Mayer Was attached to the Third Naval District Mobile Operating Unit at New York. -9-

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I 'I CHOURRE We came aboard a ship of rust, a ship of dirt, I decay and dust. From stem to stern, fore and 1 V aft: She didn't even have a raft. Her guns I were gone, Her paint was beat. She looked I . like Bonapartes' retreat. Yes, She was a horrible I I sightg A regular Bos'ns Mates delight ------- I ------ The Chiefs they howled and yelled and I I cussed, And many a Seaman bit the dust ------ I I, . 1, 'll ak I I I I to I I. I I I Slow but sure the work was done. And looking y back it was kind of fun. ------ Now the men II . . I are set the stores are ong We wait to sail at I I break of dawn. I I I Ii fi I The Zoomies', had but one decision. To work with the First and Second division. -I ----- There were moans and groans and the Bos,ns laughed. The paint it flew from fore and aft. Test the whistle. the word was passed. The siren screamed but no whistle blast ------- -11- I