Germantown (LSD 42) - Naval Cruise Book

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fLeftJ 3rd Class Association Officers meet to plan events and brainstorm for ideas. fbelowj FN Campos fin disguisej and PN3 Fraga catch a movie sponsored by the 2nd Class Association and shown 'Cinema QD Sea' style on the flight deck. ira- .ns- Shortly after we deployed, Gennantown's 2nd Class Petty Officers came up with a crazy idea: 'the lst Class Petty Officers have an association, why canlt we'?' They took the idea up with the Command Master Chief, and he agreed. f'There's a lot of things lower ranks see landl a lot of ideas that aren't getting up to the topf, he said. The 2nd Class Petty Officers' Associa- Their first order of business was to host a Steel Beach Pic- nic on Germantown's flight deck for the rest of the crew. tion was bom. A few weeks later, the 3rd Class Petty Officers got in on the action. Their inaugural event, a Haunted House for Halloween, impressed and terrified just about everyone, while raising more than S5200 for MWR. CSee page 38 for photosj Throughout the deployment, the lst, 2nd, and 3rd-Class Petty Officer Asso- ciations continued to sponsor events for the crew. They held basketball shoot- outs, movie nights, and picnics. Asso- ciation members also volunteered to work in the galley to give our Food Service Attendants a break from their tedious jobs on PSA appreciation day. Overall, the Petty Officer Associations turned out to be a huge success.