Guadalupe (AO 32) - Naval Cruise Book

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WEST PAC USS GUADALU PE A0-32 1966

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-SDA-nv-.s . .. ina-,,,,nK,-. Mr, -V-,... - -'-5 .1-eg..--.N-., .- ... fl p L Y ,ff- I fffls f .+ CAPTAIN M. R. MASSIE-COMNIANDING OFFICER Captain Malcolm Roy MASSIE and the U.S. Navy have traveled the same road for better than one third of a century. The acquaintance began back in January of 1932 when Captain Massie enlisted after one year of college at the University of Virginia. His first duty was aboard the USS SARATOGA QCV 35, where he spent six years developing an affinity for the rating of boatswain's mate. He maintained this affinity and served as the ship's boatswains mate on his next three ships. In 1943 Captain Massie attained the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade as he moved from first class to warrant officer to Lieutenant fjg5 in eleven months. In 1944 Captain Massie reported aboard the submarine USS BURRFISH CSS 3125 for duty as reconaissance officer. He and his men were responsible for close-up surveillance of Japanese held Islands in the western Carolines. They moved by rubber raft as close to the beaches as possible to learn what they could about enemy strengths and beach conditions. Today the same job is performed by underwater demolition teams, but there was no such thing then. For this action Captain Massie received the Silver Star. In the years immediately following World War II Captain Massie served as Executive Officer on the USS ERNEST G. SMALL CDD 8385 and com- manded the USS FULLAM CDD 4745. Following three years of Stateside duty he spent another three serving in Jammat, Turkey as Ordnance Adviser. In S 1955 he returned to the states to assume command of the USS TOWHEE CMSF 3885 and then of MINDIV 85. . . In November 1956 Captain Massie entered what was to become his favorite field-intelligence. During his first tour in Washington, D. C. he was attached to the Office of Naval Intelligence as an international specialist. It was his job to advise Admiral BURKE, then Chief of Naval Operations, on current international happenings throughout the world. Following a tour of staff duty in Taiwan and another as Commander of MINDIV 92, he returned to Wash- ington. In September 1962 he began working for the new Defense Intelligence Agency, a combination of Army, Navy, and Air Force intelligence organiza- tions. Having had previous intelligence experience he was placed in charge of the analysis and presentation of all current intelligence data on Southeast Asia. Because of the importance of this area Captain Massie was constantly called upon to provide information. He worked closely with the office of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and once advised the President and the Vice President. Captain Massie is married to the former Florence CRAIN, the daughter of a forty two year Navy officer, and a Navy nurse herself. The Massie's have two sonsx Malcolm Roy Junior, a First Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps on his way for a voluntary second tour in Vietnamg and John Lawrence, presently preparing to assume the duties of president of his senior class at Western High School in Orange County, California. ff'