Kawishiwi (AO 146) - Naval Cruise Book

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Captain Carpenter is a native northern Californian who attended St. Mary's College of California where he was a member of Slip Madigan's famous Galloping Gaels . Upon graduation from St. Mary's in early 1942 he received his basic Navy training at N,O. B. Norfolk and Princeton Officers School, During WWII he served as Commanding Officer of the LCT 395 in the Aleutian cam- paign where he participated in the landings on Attu, Kiska, and Shemya, In late 1944 he was ordered to the South Pacific as Commander LCT Group Forty and, as such, was involved in the landings on Anguar and Palau plus all LCT operations in Ulithi atoll, In October 1945, after serving at the Amphibious Base, Coronado, for four months he was ordered to the Mine Warfare School and thence to the Pacific as Commanding Officer, USS Sprig QAM-3845. During this tour he participated in the minesweeping operations inthe Yellow Seag Sasebo, and Nagasaki, Japan, entrance clearance mine- sweeping, Yangtze River entrance clearance minesweeping and the Tsushima Straits operations. In July 1946 he joined the Atlantic Fleet Mine Force as the USS Sprig was the last of the U. S. minesweepers to be returned to the U. S. Captain Carpenter's next assignment was as Executive Officer of the USS Ellyson QDMS-191 where for the next three years he was to participate in springboard operations, Sixth Fleet deployments, rendering of services to other units of the Atlantic Fleet and many other operations in the Atlantic. Upon reassignment from the Ellyson he attended the Navy Line School, Monterey, followed by a short tour in the Mine Warfare Branch of OpNav. In July 19 52 Captain Carpenter was again ordered to the Atlantic Mine Force where he was to serve as Aide and Flag Secretary for the next two years. At this time he assumed command of the USS Fitch QDMS-25i and in February 1956 decommissioned the Fitch, the last of the destroyer minesweepers to be decommissioned. From April of 1956 to June 1958 Captain Carpenter served as Ilead of the Training and Operations Division in the Navy Section, Military Assistance Advisory Group, Taiwan. As such he was the personal advisor to the CinC, Chinese Navy, the Chinese Naval Academy, the Command and Staff College and numerous other activities within the Chinese Navy. Upon completion of two years in the MAAG he was assigned as a student in the Naval Warfare Course at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. At the end of the year's course of instruction, he was transferred to the staff of the War College where he served as the Assistant Secretary of the College for the next two years. In August 1961 he assumed command of the USS Edson QDD-9461. It was during this tour that two interesting episodes occurred in that Edson assisted Hollywood in the making of the TV series Ensign O'Toole and the Twilight Zone film, Thirty Fathoms Deep , Upon departing the USS Edson, Captain Carpenter attended the interdepartmental seminar on Problems of Internal Security at the State Department Foreign Service Institute and then reported for duty on the Joint Staff, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific, in the Military Assistance Branch. In November 1965 he assumed command of the USS Kawishiwi lAO-1465. I-Ie is married to the former Jane Wishle of Washington, D. C. They have three children - - Melvin, Jr. , Kathleen, and Carl. 4

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.., fa f 1 X 'I 5.31. Captain Melvin J. Carpenter USN

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LIELITENANT COMMANDER J. P. NEYLAND USN Lieutenant Commander Neyland is a native of northern New Jersey. Born and raised in Clifton, New Jersey, he attended Seton Hall University at Orange, New Jersey, where he majored in English. He entered Officer Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island, and was commissioned on 14 January 1954. His first duty assignment was USS Russell County QLST-10903 where he served as first lieutenant. It was during this tour that he married the former Patricia Orann also of Clifton, New Jersey, Lieutenant Commander Neyland's next assignment was with the correspondence course center billeted as an operations technician. In August 1961 he was assigned to the stores ship USS Altair QAKS-325. After spending a year as operations officer aboard Altair, he was transferred to the operations department of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga QCVA-605. Lieutenant Commander Neyland reported aboard USS Kawishiwi QAO-1465 in Septem- ber of 1964, He and his wife Patricia have three children - - James, Barbara, and John.