King (DLG 10) - Naval Cruise Book

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OC Left to right, front: RMC HUD- KINS, RM2 PHILLIPS. Middle: RM2 ESPINOSA, RM3 PER- SHING, RM3 BUREL, RMSN CAMPROS. Back: RMI JONES, RM3 LARSON, RM3 HARRIS. SA MCLEOD. Messages handled: Average 1380 per month. Total for cruise 16,561 Terminations: Shifted full pe- riod termination with l3 com- munications stations. Supplies expended: 492 rolls teletype paper, 150 rolls hec- tomat tty paper, 310,000 sheets paper, 150 boxes ditto mats, 500 tty ribbons. v- i Bear's Tavern, Bear speak- Ilg .... KING maintained a full pe- riod duplex radio teletype cir- cuit throughout the entire de- ployment, except for a ten day period in Singapore. KING's average reliability on all ter- minations was 98 per cent for the entire cruise. On several occasions KING was the only ship able to maintain two-Way teletype communications with the beach. During these peri- ods, KING relayed vital high precedence traffic for Task Force Commanders on board the aircraft carriers as well as for other ships in the im- mediate area. In addition, KING's radiomen also main- tained an average of I8 other circuits while operating in a wide range of tactical situa- tions such as PARPRO, SAR AAW, CVA Plane Guard, and Surveillance.

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The Operations Depart- ment includes the four divi- sions OC. OD, OE, and OI. During this cruise, as the re- sult of several overflights by Soviet aircraft, the inadvertent rendezvous with Russian subs and a conglomerate of other Russian warships, plus an NTDS experiment in the Sea of Japan. Operations has never had a dull moment. LCDR. Stewart and his OPS boys are proud to have been operation- ally ready for any flap, any time. OPER TIO ..........0, F0 .E-S. .....i' 5 1' - 4 Q 'Mi' 6 A--Q 45 J H I 1 i LCDR. Jake STEWART, USN Operations Officer 4' :jc 3. xl - Wir Oil ,,-' pr 1 pg ,- ,,'. 'iv MR. Don WHITEACRE CETA 'f Q 5 . 'Q 'Q' - ' .l f is LT. Jim HITCHCOCK, USN CIC Officer ENS. Geoff STELLING, USN NTDS Officer LTJG. Cliff ENG, USNR EW Officer ENS. Woody BROWN, USNR Intelligence Officer LTJG. Warren GRIFFITH Communications Officer WO1 Mike JUDD, USN EMO I

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Although KING departed San Diego witha relatively 'tgreen crew', consisting of junior rates, KING's signal bridge, under the outstanding leadership of SMI Ramirez and Nelson, has met and effectively carried out its mission with excellence. This cruise pro- duced a variety in visual com- munications demands from the continuous traffic of plane guarding a CVA, to the use of Russian Cyrilic when opera- ting in the Bering Sea and Sea of Japan, to the use of inter- national signaling with the many merchant ships of var- ious nations: Canada, Argen- tina, Australia, Ceylon, India, Greece, Chile, China, Den- mark, Germany, Samoa, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Japan, Panama, Sweden, Netherlands, Vietnam, Malaysia, New Zea- land, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, Soviet Union, Nor- way, Liberia, and Kuwait. Messages: Average 547 per month. Foreign ships: Com- municated with 158 different ships from 27 different nations. MSG Blanks: 4,300 expended. Flags: 118 expended. Ensigns: 28 U.S. Ensigns expended. Brightwork: 18 cans of Never- dull expended. Dressed ship: 10 times in one month. Left to right, front: SM3 DUNN, SMI NELSON. Back: SM3 DU- GAS, SMSN VEJAR, SMSN CONNERS, SM3 FORNEY. Missing: SM1 RAMIREZ, SM3 ANDREWS.