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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Ol Division had an extremely successful cruise this year -with many credits in their record-boxing champs , bowling champs, second in the raffle-ticket buying, first in the Cebu blood-letting , and without a single case of fingers in the pencil sharpener at Sonar Attack team! This gang was led by the two chiefs-Kennick and Boot Foley, with Barney Summerford taking over as Leading PO after Foley graduated. Jurgens led the ET's, followed by all-night Williams lcomplete with pro-payl. This year we had the luxury of having more seamen than second class llast year's situationl, and we had a grand time squaring them away. Besides having the only redstriped battle lantern glasses on the ship, we had the notable Slugger Burgess and salty Squeaks White to keep us loose, with L.K. White as the division's P.L.O. lPermanent Latrine Orderlyl. H.O. lthe Professorl Ray led the student element, while Bob lmailmanl Dorn led the how can l waste my time today and western-reading section. Jurgens 'font ,OW left fg right ns JM oveless White LR hock PW unro TN Dorn RT Lenz U: ' j: E ...L 2 .1 --2 5 , - -1 M , --2 , --5 T, CE' Walker R.A., LTJG K.W. Barnes. CBack FOWD: ENS R.D. Wells, Foley, R.P.g Summerford, B.H., Q U, I 1 J , , ,, D , . . Jr., 9 , A.K., Q , J. ., , r-LE., Bur ess Gray RW Kennlck .IE MD Johnson LR Gerle FD ueboay CE Len es Jur ens H Cramer