Dahlgren (DLG 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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1 SN R.C. Jackson 2 SN D.B. Saxton 3 SN R.J. Poorman 4 SN M.O. Johnson 5 SN J.W. Burks 6 SN R.L. Walker 7 SN W.R. Stone 8 SN R.S. Schroers SN J.W. Lannigan, Jr. 10 SN J.R. Anderson 11 SN R.L. Sullivan 12 SN J.L. King 13 SN R.F. Petchell 14 SN V.M. Wiest 15 SN D.R. Erving

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I DIVISION The first item to come to any Operations Spe- cialist ' s mind when queried about the 1974 Med cruise would have to be standing port and starboard watches, for these men spent most of their underway waking hours on watch in CIC. And this cruise kept them on their toes. The operations schedule changed like a fickle woman, often making it difficult to prepare for exercises. During the Cyprus crisis, it took all available OS ' s plus a horde of other ship ' s per- sonnel to guard the radio circuits and perform the myriad other jobs relegated to CIC. When- ever shipwide underway evolutions took place, I Division personnel rolled out of their racks to sleepily man their stations, Why do all refuelings happen when I ' m off watch? was thought by many an OS. But, they came through in the pinch. In spite of perennial problems with the other JL talker, on the bridge, the program going down at all the wrong times, the Know-it-all OODs doubting CPA ' s, courses and speeds, and having to con- trol aircraft using the 64 mile range scale, the DAHLGREN ' s OS ' s won the coveted Opera- tions E for 1974. Their outstanding perfor- mance proves the OS ' s right to the nickname brains of the modern DLG.