George Elliott (AP 105) - Naval Cruise Book

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The rodio gong lost some good men when they W lost Col Merchont, Dick Sweet ond Stu Milligon but we oll remember the good men the yeomen gong lost. There wos Lovely COSO- telli who got dischorged when on old illness lwhich we won't nomel cought up with him. The moin works vvos Jim l-loys of the Exegg Office who ron the office with much precision ond order while he enjoyed o good poker gome with the boys eight nights o week. lYes there ore! There ore eight nights in the week when we cross the dote linel Al Pornell wos in his glory when he mode Chief Yeomon ond thot good conduct ribbon could olwoys be seen on his blues becouse he didn't hove o hosh mork to look solty like the other chiefs, The two boys who worked with Al were Gene Compston ond Shorty Gordner, These two boys were the typicol formers who hod been drofted into the Novy ond disliked the ideo immensely. Both were nice, quiet fellows ond Shorty hod very good poker luck which the rest of the gong continuolly gripe-d obo-,it for 'Z hours on end. lf you were oboord when Ji, orr vvos here you will never forget his infomous P - morning coll, The Exec, thinking Joe to bt working down in the office, would send hi messenger to get Joe, The messenger knew where to go, not to the office but right to Joie sock for there he'd be Ak L Tk

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The Yeomen also come under the supervision of the C Division and they hold some of the most important jobs on the ship. They keep in Con- fact with the Navy Bureaus and tend to the crew's records. Much could be said about the ye0men's, signal men's and radiomen's duties, but we won't go into further details for a good part of their duties deal with restricted, confi- dential and secret matter which the Navy doesn't want disclosed. You'll want to know something about those fellows still serving in C Division. Looking on them we see Eddie Mont- gomery who although he's a lovable old soul would forget about eating if his stomach didn't let him know it was hungry. Monty's protege is Harry Luwich Brink who at all hours of the day and night can be found making a pot of Joe. Right beside Brink drinking some of that Joe would be Dick Gil Guilderson. Gil feels lost without Charlie Kacher's assistance in bur- lesquing comedy acts for the benefits of all but still manages to act crazy enough to bring on the laughter of everyone around. Then we have Rabbit Cheves and his guitar. l-le plinks out the oldtime tunes with the accompaniment of Glendale Riley on the mandolin. These two boys are undoubtedly the most religious boys on the old Fox, and it's a pitiful sight to watch them when they are mad, trying to say some- thing nasty and yet still be in bounds, but it is a grand thing to see that at least two boys have not been changed too much by their stay on the IIFOXII. N DIVISION The Radarman is as typical a sack rat as you'll find anywhere in the Navy, and although find- ing it very trying at times the Radar Gang of the George F, Elliott has followed through in extra- ordinary fashion. Eor the major part of the time the ship has been In commission the gang has been a member of the small, but loud, N Division. When the Radar is mentioned aboard the Fox, one first gives thought to non-smiling John Cline. Old John finally won the war and got the bridge painted from his elaborate top sack, and he is now on the outside with his Eleanor. Old -.ITZIDH Zafero was the shrewd one, who saw all, Heard all, and knew everything. l-loiman and GOiman Mueller was a staunch member of the O lQinal crew, along with dear Jasco Sau- hecver. l imagine Jasco is back in Arkansas with his shoes off by now. Admiral Coleman, the pride of Annapolis, and Dick Nauman, the cornfed Iowa boy, round out the original gang. ll, i Xi 4-:Q f.-Lax .-S