Fletcher (DD 992) - Naval Cruise Book

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RMSN Culpepper, ENS Trelstad AND ENDS FTMSN Winters, GMMSN Macintyre. FTMSN Kober GSM2 Holt FTM2 Fletcher

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THE MEN WHO WENT TO SEA THE SHIP WAS PREPARED FOR HER JOURNEY ON THAT WARM AND SUNNY MORNING. THE RAILS WERE MANNED AND EYES WERE MOIST AND MANY HEARTS WERE SOARING. FOR MANY IT WAS A FIRST AND FOR SOME IT WOULD BE THEIR LAST. IT WOULD ALL BE IN THE LINE OF DUTY AS WITH ANY FLETCHER TASK. THE PASSAGE OVER TO OAHU, WAS CALM WITH LITTLE RAIN. IN LATER MONTHS WE ' D KNOW THE WRATH OF NEPTUNE ' S RAGING MAIN. PEARL HARBOR WAS A WELCOMED SIGHT AMIDST AN ISLAND OF SO MUCH GREEN. THE ARIZONA A SAD REMINDER OF WHAT AGGRESSION REALLY MEANS. THERE WERE MANY UNREPS AND REPEATED DRILLS AND A DAY THAT EVEN LEAPED. WE SPENT SOME TIME ON THE ISLAND OF GUAM AND FOR SOME IT MEANT SOME SLEEP. WE FINALLY MADE IT TO PI WHERE THE BARGAINS RUN GALORE. BE IT SUBIC OR IN OLONGAPO, THERE ' S A SMILE BEHIND EVERY DOOR. YOUR LIVES ARE SO MUCH DIFFERENT FROM THE EASY LIVES WE ' VE LED. EVERYDAY LIES THE WORRY, OF MAKING SURE THE CHILDREN GET FED. CULTURE SHOCK CAN BEST EXPLAIN WHAT MANY HAD DESCRIED. ' ' MANILA WAS A HAPPIER STORY WITH PEOPLE JUST AS KIND. A VISIT TO PUSAN, KOREA BROUGHT MEMORIES OF EARLY SPRING. WITH CHERRY BLOSSOMS AND SMILING FACES. YOU CERTAINLY COULD SING. THEN SASEBO AND YOKOSUKA IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN. A COUNTRY WITH IT ' S ANCIENT HISTORY BUT STILL A LAND OF FUN. HONG KONG WAS SO CROWDED. IT MADE NEW YORK SEEM LIKE A TOWN KOWLOON AND ABERDEEN WERE MUCH EASIER TO GET AROUND. PORT MORESBY IN NEW GUINEA WAS ANOTHER CULTURAL EXPERIENCE. WE WERE WELCOMED IN A JOYOUS WAY WITH EVERYONE QUITE CURIOUS. ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY AND ZERO ADDED UP TO A GOLDEN SHELLBACK. A CREW OF MOSTLY WOGS. WOULD WITNESS NEPTUNESS MERCILESS WRATH. IT WAS NOW A TIME FOR REFLECTION AND TO REMEMBER THE MILES OF SMILES. AT JOURNEY ' S END WE WILL HAVE TRAVELED THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND MILES. FLETCHER COMPLETED HER TASK IN THE TRADITION OF FIGHTING JACK . THE MEMORIES WILL LAST US A LIFETIME AS WE JOURNEY ALONG LIFE ' S TRACK. EVERYONE HAS THEIR STORIES AND WILL REMEMBER WHAT NEEDS TO BE. SO ENDS A HAPPY TALE OF THE MEN WHO WENT TO SEA. 1 « » EDWARD A. FARRON 96 WALSWOBTHYWW Cruise Bi».k Sale- (lllire PUBLISHING I I I KHH Crand Aven.ie Office E COMPANY AAA.. I, ,,, u„,,,a