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Swim call seemed to be one of the more relaxing events of WESTPAC. The captain authorized swim call four times. The main event sWim call was held when we were approaching the equator. It was around one thirty in the morning when the word was passed, swim call, swim call, we will be approaching the equator in fifteen minutes, all hands wanting to swim across the equator sign in at the turntable. To ensure you were properly groomed for the occasion the SHs cut 1,299 heads of hair. For a refreshment after the swim, there was al- ways an ample supply of soda. PAGE 50. DID YOU KNOW . ?
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DID YOU KNOW ? The information you are about to read is not completely accurate. We may have fault- ered in our statistics by no more than one percent. Be warned! The following informa- tion may shock you and could possibly cause a heart attack. Although shocking these sta- tistics help us to see where some of our tax dollars go. 11 Bringing supplies to the ship was no laughing matter. We had fifteen vertical replenishments underway replenishments hile we were on WESTPAC. That is anywhere from two to five hours of heavy lifting, storing, and inventorying supplies like od, soda, fuel, repair parts and other miscellaneous for just one VERTREPAJNREP. When COMSTOCK set ail, it was definitely out )r an adventure. The ship nd its crew sailed for one undred and eighty days Dvering 36,945.7 nautical liles. Along the way, they it a total of seven ports in- luding Hong Kong, Sin- apore. United Arab Emir- tes (Dubai, Jebel Ali), Jor- an, Kuwait City, Perth, nd Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, ISA. PAGE 49. DID YOU KNOW ?
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k total of 392 Navy personnel and 436 Marine Corps personnel were onboard for the lengthy WESTPAC. They all enjoyed services of the Mess Management Specialists by eating at the 800 meals that were served this WESTPAC. It was time to iate 568 new Shellbacks into King Neptune ' s world when we crossed the equator the first time. Personnel aboard COM- DCK watched over 3,000 movies, enjoyed 30 steel beach picnics, ran through 60 general quarter drills and after all that, 25 lors and Marines still reenlisted. The DKs inform us that $1,090,000.00 dollars were spent by personnel , not to include ATM nsactions or credit card purchases. While HMl was making pizza with the rest of his first class associates, 1,500 persons •e getting sick. Lets hope it wasn ' t the pizza! « PAGE 51. DID YOU KNOW ?
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