Cony (DDE 508) - Naval Cruise Book

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Xi 1 NAL VI GILANCE I - ,1 E it P . TEA l G AS BEFORE Life at sea. Drill, preparation. All divisions know that their ships must be in good conditon. Repairs, hopefully allocated to tender availability that never came, parts which arrived' on board just prior to sailing, men recently returned from schools-all resources become fair prey for the ocean and its contents. Up-keep. Testing. Checking instruments, re-tuning frequencies. Watch- ing boiler gauges carefully. Preparing new watch bills and assignments. A new OOD underway takes the deck for the first time. A new communications messenger rehearses the routes he will use. New crews on the flight deck, different repeaters in CIC. The operation order is re-read, and the ships pre- pare for event 1-l. Even as the ships steam from Norfolk, plans for replenishing and refuel- ing are made. Lines are broken out, schedules for sometimes frantic 'across- pollination are taped nervously to the Bos,n's Chair. Galleys move from a benign three meals a day to a murderous twenty-three hour schedule. Mess-cooks take their last look at the sky overhead, enginemen say au revoir to the cool winds off the ocean. Status boards become miniature Wall Street souvenirs, charts are broken out to be instantaneously at the hands of the ships' navigators. Routine. Steaming as before. Ship's work projects. Movies that seem new although they were on board the time before last. Routine. How is it broken! By a contact-a small sound on the sonar, a blip on the radar, a mes- sage from CINCLANTFLT or COMASDEFORLANT. By a holiday-a visit to New York or Quebec. The day and night existence of four thousand men, working and living together. Survillance, readiness, routine. 37

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