Essex (CVS 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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R Mueller SMCA D Catherman SMI G Mares SM1 Someflmes you con T be sure where o voice IS coming from J' Bryan SM2 M Henson SM2 Ens R J Relyea III Eng D R Tom-se DIVISION OFFICER ASST DIVISION OFFICER J. Rogers, SM2 H. Thompson, SM2 R. Meade, SM3 J. Ford, SM3 Colors have on hypnofic effect on some people

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Commander Robert Q. Cleric, USN GUNNERY OFFICER GLJNNERV DEPARTMENT Now secure The Speciol Sed ond Anchor DeToil...Mon all DesTroyer Refueling ond l-lighline SToTions. IT doesn'T reolly hdppen ThoT woy in The Gunnery DeporTmenT buT iT hoppens olmosT ThoT woy. l-loving gone To ond Trom TwenTy-Three seo-deToils Trom QuonseT To QuonseT ond gossed up endless desTroyers in beTween, homving dropped onchors, booTs ond spors in mony woTers ond highlined everyone Trom odmirol To opprenTice, The boys Trom Gunnery will remember Midlinla Six os o Two-honded, eleven-Tingered exercise. Midlinla wos imporTiol in iTs dem-dnds. Accel- erored ocTiviTy Touched all ronks ond billeTs. No one had To feel he wos olone in defending The wogon Troing- STill, Gunnery is Gunnery ond some Things even Midlinlq could noT olTer. The gunners oiled The Tive-inchers ond Tired line-guns Tor drill. The Tire conTrollers locked on every neorby desTroyer ond groTeTully Trocked on occosionol olboTross. The JG's obsorbed Their rounds oT woTches ond deToils, moinToining, groTis, The TrodiTionol bunkroom over- heod woTch. The heod cleoners ond side cleoners pursued Their endless op-orders, Comex long beTore Midlink, Finex nowhere in sighT. The booTs wenT down which mode blood pressures go up. PuncTuolly oT T900 The deporTmenTol oTTicers would goTher oT The office ond hormonize To Every NighT !XbouT This Time... BUT These Things ore perenniol. ln spiTe or perhops becouse oT Them, Gunnery oTToined iTs Midlink obiecTives. l-loving dispensed our brosswore ond Rolexes oT The ChrisTmos homecoming, we will reTurn Tor The nexT round o biT more deck reody ond guns up Thon beTore.ThoT round will, oT course, begin wiTh Now seT The Speciol Seo ond Anchor DeToil...