King (DLG 10) - Naval Cruise Book

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l TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS Twas the night before Vhristmas And all through the KING Every work space was silent You couldn't hear a thing. Half the crew was on watch And the others in their beds While thoughts of their loved ones Ilanced through their heads. When then out of Fombat There arose such a chatter The Vaptain woke up 8: yelled Now what's the matter? The evaluator With firmly clenched lip said. There's something on radar, Approaching the ship. We can't make it out We've not seen it before There's five. maybe six. Maybe seven or more. Now the f'aptain's in Fombat lt did not take him long The night was going well Hut now something was wrong. All over the ship You could hear the loud wail General quarters! General quarters! Put some birds on the raill The tension was growing And a chill hit the spine All the dots on the radar Had amounted to nine. ,1 11 lherc was no IH' Ur a radio call Systems 4 K 5 tracking And now l made them all. So we called Alfa Whiskey. They are coming at me. For the sake of the crew I'm requesting birds free? We sat there just waiting And the night was so black When at the last moment All the systems dropped track. The whole crew was frantic They were working on fear 5 minutes had passed They should almost be here. Evasion was ordered We started our turn When all of a sudden There was noise on the stern We ran out of Combat With never a pause And there stood 8 reindeer With old Santa Claus He stayed quite a while As he wished us good cheer For a nice Christmas Day And a Happy New Year. As he drove out of sight The ship was still humming Maybe next time dear Capta in You'll know that I'm coming! Elvie Kester 4...Z , i. if

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I l Y - fha. 43' ,EN JV 4..- lx l ? 9 -edt 'Stags 00-04 Were underway in order to meet Requirements of Comseventh Fleet Whose operating schedule, third quarter. fiscal year Nineteen seventy three, says we must be here. B SOPA and OTC are the same CDR. R. R. Tarbuck, USN, is his name Captain of the KING QDLG-105, Skipper to a crew of the finest men. All four generators are on the line The load is parallel and doing fine 1B, 2B boilers are lit For obvious reasons the plant is split Material condition YOKE is set. Requirements of condition III are met. Mount 51 is ready to go. Smoothly into action it could flow. Our position in the Gulf is known as MID SAR in the 10 mile circle we can't go far, but steaming independently is rarely a bore When you're TU 77.0.4. 106D 30' E, 18' 40' N Around the point we steam back and forth We're at darken ship, all lights are out, There's no visual indication when we come about A well trained crew is ready at hand If our ship's SAR Helo must take off and land. Big Mother Six Zero is the Helo's name. Rescue and assistance is the name of her game. 0000, Listen did you hear? The sounds of the coming of a brand New Year. 0115, Received an injury report. Being cautious was not this young man's forte. HTFN P. W. Davis, USNR is alive. Service number 326-48-7095. I was running through a hatch and hit my head. Diagnosis: Une inch laceration to his forehead. ' Treatment: Cleaned and sutured, issued pills for tnelpam D DISPOSITION: Returned to Duty tOn the Bounding Mem? 0206 Changed the course of our track. Came to 2201 nothing special tdouble backl- M. R.Judd, WO1 . 4771'-