Floyd Parks (DD 884) - Naval Cruise Book

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fi N X Nl , UP' L x , 2 S1 Wong 4 au' I If W Q' H ' Brumly, G., CSSN-Some sing California here I come. 9 9 2 960 06 ell ' , N 6 iliousi ,ev 9 ss., Nl ,nl s ill ie ff 5 ISCRRF Xiffo I 0 Q5 5 Personalities About The Ship Let's take a jaunt about the ship and take a look at some of the personalities of the vari- ous divisions. While doing so we'll take a note here and there about some of the best guys in the world, your shipmates. Then some- time, years later, when you have your twenty or thirty in, you can break out this book and ....there you'll be back in 1950 with your old crew on the old Floyd B. ,ui SUPPLY DIVISION By H. M. DAMASKE, HM3 The Supply Division is a small but very important division of the ship. For in it are the important services of food, clothing, material, medicine and surgery, and laundry. Ratings, whose duties comprise these occupations, are in this division and, although of diverse character, they still all have to do with some sort of service to the ship. The ship would be a miserable place, indeed, if it weref1't for the men in this division. We could not get any food, if we did, we could not get it cooked. If we got sick, we would not have any medicine or pharmacists to administer it. We would not be able to get our clothes washed. We would never get paid! We could not get any of the many other supplies that we need for the maintenance of the ship. It is a small division but a very important one. As for personalities in the Supply Division, those are not hard to find. They may be a small division but they make themselves well-known. Sometimes, perhaps they are too well-known! Rawson, HMC-He doesn't wear a pigtail it just looks that way. Carroll, HMC-What's that you got under your nose, Chief? Burkett, CS1-CPoppasonJ. You can take it from there! Marquez, SH2--He's not hard on his boys. They just like to gripe. Guanciale, SH3-Just call me Mousie. I love it. Palmer, T. R., SH3-They call him Slugger but he's not, he's a lover. Brown, L. J., DK3-There's one in every department. He's in the S. Warden, CS3-He thinks he's a baker, but we know better. Damaske, HM3-Here's a king. Anyone got a Queen? Gilmore, SKSN-He plays at baseball, that is. Cooper, J. D., SKSN--What would he do without Ellis? Brown, C. R., CSSN-Could he be a relative of Brown, L. J.? Large, CSSN-He likes the hospital in Yokosuka, but he likes other things better. Lawson, W. E.-CSSN-Just call him nothing-hum. Dancer, SN- Tiajuana, here I come. I can't stand pale faces. fUpon arrival back in overseas U.S.D Zinney, CSSN--Here is a man of experience. Camp, SN-He thinks he's a corpsman. Humm. Payne, A., SN-You're a laundryman, not a shipfitter. QYou'd never know it from where he hangs out.J Gooch, CSSN-Isn't 18 hours a day enough sleep? He sings Yokosuka here I'll return. Phipps, SN--He was a boatswain mate striker but he decided to work for a change. How's the laundry, Jesse? Tisdale, CSSN-He used to weigh 150. Now he's in the galley. C240Jl OPERATIONS DIVISION By W. E. TIPPS, S01 The Operations Gang on the PARKS this trip have all turned in a 4.0 performance, and having done so, deserve due and proper acclaim. In order that such credit may be impartially distributed, we must take a close look at the specialized talents that these men displayed so unselfxshly. Let us divide the division into the various rating groups so that we may more accurately evaluate the personalities involved! First-CNow we're getting down to businessll-let us take a peek at the QM's CQuartermastersD-CFlag wavers to youse guys D Never in this young writer's career have I ever seen a more motley crew of Quartermasters. Ah yes, the ring- leader, none other than Yoddy Tye, QMC. Reports