La Salle (LPD 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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,,,,, ....,.i - mm.. The five months between November 1968 and April 1969 proved to be long, active ones for S1 D1v1s1on There were many happy 'times a few sad times and much experience gained We started the cruise with Lt. C.E. Gartrell as Division Officer, SK1 D.E. Banks as Division P.O., and SK 's Klopf, Monfort, Brown, Day, Hagan, Morrison, Hinojosa, and Grant filling out the Division. One of the sad times was when ' ' Old Man Banks left the ship on orders to a new duty station. 'Although we were one of the two smallest divisions with only eight men, we were able to acquire a lot of ' 'power during the cruise with Mr. Gartrell being promoted to LCDR effective in October, and D.A. Brown making SK2 in January. These promotions gave us the senior Division Officer and made 37.57, of the division' E-5. The liberty ports S-1 enjoyed itself most in were Naples, Italy, Villefranche, France, and Valencia, Spain. SK1 Banks and SK2 Klopf made 'a vacation of our stay in Naples, spending lots of time at the ' 'one-armed bandits in the NATO Club. Villefranche found SK3's Morrison and Hagan indulging in the French pastime of wine-drinking. SN Grant spent his liberty time in Villefranche making friends with the local inhabitants. . 7 . Q . 1 7 .. . , . . . SK2 Brown enjoyed the port of Patras, Greece- for its souvenir offerings. His most prized purchase was a valuable Grecian Urn which he was able to acquire for only six American dollars. Valencia, Spain offered SK's Monfort and Day an opportunity to enjoy a real bullfight . and to pick up some souvenirs. Spanish- speaking SKSN Hinojosa 'fell in love at least once a day while in Valencia. In spite of the hazards of liberty, S-1 Division managed to carry on a fairly active business in general stores and repair parts. GSK made almost 3,300 individual issues. For morale, over 10,000 rolls of toilet tissue were issued. To keep ,the ship clean, 2,200 cans of scouring powder, 82 pails of wax, 298 swabs, and 250 brooms, and to keep the administration functioning efficiently, 900 pens, 9000 paper clips, 240 pencils, and 1,500 reams of paper passed through our storerooms. ' In our four monthly shopping trips to the USS Sylvania, we spent 825,600.00 to re- supply our continuously moving stocks. In addition to handling the receipt, stowage, and frequent issue of all this material, S-1 Division also managed to submit over fifty required reports. So you can see that your S-1 Division, with all of its ' 'slack time , M- MONFORT DOES HIS HOMEWORK. , did accomplish quite a bit of work on this cruise. LCDR C. E. GARTRELL, SC SUPPLY OFFICER S- 1 Divislbn ' ' SKSN A. Hinojosa SK1 D- Banks SKZ D' Brown SKZ E. Klopf SK2 M. Monfort SK3 M. Day SK3 G. Morrison

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' ' Gobb1e,'gobb1e - Rogers, CS1. Ktyznel shapes 'em up. 1 The scullery crew