John McCain (DL 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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long hours reproducing the story of this our goodwill iourney. Eyrish continued to play of the scholar while the rest of us crossed The all hope for the opportunity to escort him on iourney at a later date. Back in Subic, it was that we had a potential swimming great in our Two of our more distinguished members, Gray and became Marlborough Men in Hong Kong. squeezed dollars out of our tight little fists to give division 1002 participation in the Okinawan scholar- ship fund. Mickle had a tough battle with a speed key 'to bolster our Zulu twenty score, a return bout is to be scheduled. T.P.K. Mortensen seems to have relatives to visit in the strangest places! Herrington grew a fine mous- tache, but was edged out in that department by Chief Williams, who grew two of them. Lamphier has been kept busy collecting for Western Union, and Avera has carried the mail, to give us the most important of our communications. lncidently, an impartial survey has shown that the best way to obtain quicker mail service and larger volume of mail is to get someone to write to you! Among new faces in the crowd were Clifford, who has taken over a specialty in brightwork around the pilot house, and a new Williams, who has finally succeeded in getting into the radio gang. Mueller couldn't seem to complete the last leg of our iourney without a trip to the hospital-is it possible that nurses are more interesting than ships? As we neared the iourney's end rumors were heard that Horn and Knapper had given passing thought to join- ing the civilians-ghastly group! lt is estimated that we have traveled some 47,000 miles at sea since leaving Pearl Oh 8 September. Forbes and Czerwinski have written the Sl0ry of those miles, but Stevenson, Steele and Dupree claim, that between them, they walked each of those miles while routing the message board. No messages have been lost, and far more compliments were received than blasts l099ed, in all, a very good cruise. The return home is a h0PPY one, but many pleasant memories of interesting lands, people and event have been stored up-Fknown only lo US who have actually experienced them. X E .15 st- . ' xg!! Q sl, it . i N . 1 y Q-. i....,,,

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The cruise has been a normal one for OC, that is, normal in the respect that we met only with the routine emergencies. The usual amount of paper was turned out in the ship's office, radio central, signal bridge and the chart house-probably something approaching being equal to the gross tonnage of the ship. Oriental hours com- menced in the usual tradition of WESTPAC at the time we departed Subic on the first leg of our goodwill tour. While the rest of the crew was taking up People to peopling , the communications center heard some new procedures on the circuit, the signalmen procured some unfamiliar colors, the quartermasters charted strange waters, ..,, . ,Z J1- .Q ,-1 and the ship's office put much wear on the efiqueffgg y protocol manuals. Many new crows were seen, with of ALNAV Russell's not to be overlooked. Chief Garringer traded in his white hats for khakies and a necktie. Chief Watson couIdn't overcome the urge to travel, and got our of his warm hospital bed just in time to make the Indian Ocean trip. Mitchell and company took the people to people program to heart and became honorary fathers for a week to a small lad in Calcutta. ln this same city, one of our more illustrious members from Brooklyn saw Q Ce Oh W for the first time, believed by him to be a most unusual animal. Chief LaMar, along with his staff of Taylor Clzront row left to rightlz Gray, C., Williams G.S., Bowen, M.M., Herrington, C.S., Mitchell, C.E., Eyrish, R.G., Davis, R.l-l., LTJG D.R. Larson CBack rowlz Williams, C.V., Keiner, J.P., Clifford, F.K., Mortenson, R.P.K., Vanderford, C.D., Dupree, W.L., Horn, F.B., Stevenson, R.l., Lamar, R.D.

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