Gray (DE 1054) - Naval Cruise Book

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...k-. ll A' . - .. '...d---.L.l . , , .,.. , The following message, I7I530Z AUG 71, was received from Commander, SEVENTHFLT: SAYONARA'5 I. AS GRAY HEADS FOR SAN DIEGO, I WOULD LIKE TO COMMEND IIER OFFICERS AND VIN TOR IIIL OLISTPINDING JOB THEY HAVE DONE WHILE SERVING AS A MEMBER OF OYMEVT YOU H11 VE BEEN TEE SEVENTH EEETETTEAN. DURING VoUR WESTPAC DEPL I A . W ' 1 A if CIRRIER ESCOR7,SAR,! TASKED WITH SPECIAL OPERATIONS IN IIIE SEA OF JAPAN, V PIRAZ DUTIES, AND OF SPECIAL NOTE IS YOUR PARTICIPATION IN PIONEERING THE DEVELOPMENT FOR SAR HELO OPS FOR TIIE I052 CLASS DESTROYER. IWTHINR TIIESE ACHIEVEMENTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES AND ATTEST A HIGII DECREE OI' VERSA- TILITY AND PROFFSSIONALISM. TO ALL IIANDS WELL DONE FOR A MOST SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO TIIE SEVENTH FLEET MISSION. , 2. PLEASE ACCEPT MY BEST WISIIES FOR FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS ENROUTE SAN DIEGO AND A HAPPY REUNION WITH FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES.,' VADM W. P. MACK, USN. ,A d COMCRUDESGRUSEVENTHFLT: 5. The following message was receive from HFAREWELL 1. AS TWO FINE SIIIPS OF DESTROYER SQUADRON TWENTY-ONE DEPART THE WESTERN PACIFIC, IEXTEND MY CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL IIANDS FOR A JOB WELL DONE I DURING YOUR SUSTAINED OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AS GULF OF TONKIN ESCORTS I AND IN SEA OF IAPAN AAW DUTIES BRADLEY AND GRAY DISPLAYED THE HIGH DEGREE I VERSATILE DESTROYERS. ROFESSIONALISM AND CAN DO SPIRIT ADMIRED IN OUR OF P . . - You CAN BE VERY PROUD, HOF,-,YOUR SLQNLETQANLT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SEVENTH FLEET MISSION. HA VE A SAFE AND PLEASANT JOURNEY HOME. RADM ROGERS. Y Y7 1 55219 ALL DA Y...ALL NIGHT...MARYANN!!. Report all secure from the crows nest. I 1 One of the symp tons of channel ffivef- These two happy men Icnow they will be home soon Preparation or entering pori,

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1-.:,-.w.,-e-- Hugs, -iw..--L....,.... ,,,.. THE KING ANI? Tlllz' SE!! AFTER His Realms and States were moved To bare their hearts to the King they loved Tendering themselves in homage and devotion The Tide Wave up the Channel spoke 7 To all those eager, exultant folk:- Hear now what Man was given you by the Oceanff There was no thought of Orb or Crown When the single wooden chest went down To the steering-flat, and the careless Cunroom haled him To learn by ancient and bitter use, How neither Favour nor Excuse, Nor aught save his sheer self henceforth availed him. There was no talk of birth or rank By the slung hammock or scrubbed plank In the steel- rated prisons where 1 cast him' But niggard hours and a narrow space , For rest-and the naked light on his face- While the ship,s traffic flowed, unceasing, past him. Thus 1 schooled him to go and come- To speak at the word-at a sign to be dumb, To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him, To share in honour what praise might fall For the task accomplished, and-over all- To swallow rebuke in silence. Thus Imade him. 1 loosened every mood of the deep On him, a child and sick for sleep, Throu h the long watches that no time can measure, When ldrove him, deafened and choked and blind, At the wave-to s cut and spun by the wind, Lashing him, dice and eyes, with my displeasure. I opened him all the guile of the seas- Their sullen, swift-sprung treacheries, To be fought, or forestalled, or dared, or dismissed with lau hter. lshowed him Worth by Folly concealed, And the flaw in the soul that a chance revealed, fLessons remembered-to bear fruit thereafterj. 1 dealt him Power beneath his hand, ' For trial and proof with his first Command- Himself alone, and no man to gainsay! him. On him the End, the Means, and the ord, And the harsher judgement if he erred, And-outboard-Ocean waiting to betray him. Wherefore, when he came to be crowned, Strength in Duty held him bound, I So that not Power misled nor ease ensnared htm ' , Who had spared himself no more than his seas had spared htm- A ter His Lieges, in all His Lands, hhzd laid their hands between His hands, ' And His ships thundered service and devotion, The Tide Wave, ranging the Planet, Spoke On all Our foreshores as it broke:- Know now what Man lgave yOU-1, the Ocean RUDYA RD KIPLING '97

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