Dixon (AS 37) - Naval Cruise Book

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Dental Department CDR Myers, Department Head LCDR Zillner LT Shepard DTC Hallet DTC Kurtz DTI Harrison DT2 Reno DT3 Denison DT3 Sahagun DT3 Todd The Dental Department, the smallest department and division on the ship, consists of three Dental Officers and nine Dental Technicians and strikers. Dental has the responsibility of maintaining the oral health of the DIXON personnel as well as the personnel on the tended units and related shore activities. The Dental spaces were manned twenty-four hours a day to deal with the routine, as well as emergencies. Some of the services offered are Oral Surgery, Prosthetics, Endodontics, and General Dentistry and Preventative Dentistry. SN Dias DN Genovese I

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Medical Department LT Curry, Department Head LT Adkisson, Diving Officer LT Stoeckel, Division Officer HMCS Averette HMC Angel HMl HMl HMl HMl HMl Coquia Lebo Morello Post Sorensen id ' HM2 Burge HM2 Hadacek HM2 Hiatt HM2 (DV) Poplawski HM2 Romo HM3 Clemmons HM3 Negrete HM3 Valdez HM3 Woodall SN Hawkins The USS DIXON Medical Department provided round-the-clock emergency medical care, as well as routine daily sick call throughout the deployment. While on station in Diego Garcia recorded outpatient visits were 2,936. Sixty-six days of in-patient medical ward care was provided also. More than 750 X-ray procedures and a comparable number of laboraratory procedures were performed in support of patient care and of the 172 complete physical examinations performed in this period of about two months. The medical department served as the primary source for medical officer consultation to tended units, and provided assistance in the area of preventive medicine and in the performance of medical inspections. Shortly after leaving Diego Garcia, LT Adkisson successfully completed the first recorded appendectomy aboard the USS DIXON. The medical department is proud of its can do record of providing flexible and complete service to ships in availability, as well as to the DIXON crew.