Lake Champlain (CG 57) - Naval Cruise Book

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i — ■ c.f ' - Jr [ ■■- T 32 PRtur. ' d l.rit in Rii; In ' Shellback SMKSW I V idaurri raises the Jolly Roger. PNC(SW)NeaIycollects the summons while the Royal Scribe PN2 Grisset and LTJG Rottnek ensure the counting of the wogs is accurate. KingNeptunus Rex posses for the LKC paparazzi inall hissplendor. Wogs on the Fo ' c ' sle form as wog divisions Portside Amidships Quarterdeck is ESWS station. On missile deck, the wogs will i-eport to King Neptuneand will kneel in frontof his royal highness. Wogs on the flight deck will be given the correct answer to Neptune ' s question. They wi 1 1 exercise until ability to answer is demonstrated. Wogson the fan tail will play Simon says. Losers will don OBA, EEBD or tie knots. Correct response to King Neptune sends wogs to royal pool to be dunked and welcomed in to the Royal Order of the Deep. IJAN13:FuIlPowerTrial;North Arabian Sea JAN14;UNREPwithUSS SA( ' RAMENTO;PACFIRE5 : DIVTACJS JAN 15:CPOexam;Set weapon posture • ' }; Main Space Fire Dri 1 1; Ad va nee CI ock -5 Echo JAN16:HIFR VERTREP crewswap ho pu rnp launch Red St ingenGun qualifica- tion night deck HTHEGRUISK

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mA ' VLOBILE ENVIRONMENTAL TEAM laHR PRECIII What a living; I set paid to play with balloons. AG3 Morgan launches a weather ballon from the flight deck. Throughout the deployment AGC(AW) Cecil and AGS Morgan kept the Captain and crew informed of what the weather was to be like. Typhoon David, Sept 1997 Weatherman (aka Passenger 57)predicts encounter with Typhoon David. Weather enroute to Japan wasgreat until we caught up with Typhoon David (named after QMC(SW) Evans we think!). For 4 days we transited behind David encountering 12ft seas and winds up to 45 knots. As David became a tropical depression we passed through and arrived in Yokusuka, Japan. Calm seas were the mainstay throughout our transit to and most of our time in the Gulf. The exception was when we encoun- tered a SHAMAL . Three times we en- countered the infamous SHAMAL ' , an Arabic word meaning North Wind . A weather pattern of this type 20-25 knot winds and seas of 8 feet are experienced - quite a contrast to the normally flat Per- sian Gulf Again smooth seas became the norm until we left Perth, Australia; with winds from the south and seaswells up to 12 feet, due to a storm 1,000 miles away, we sustained more rolling than we did with Typhoon David. Leaving Sydney the storm tracks continued to give us 8 to 12 foot swells. Arriving in Hawaii we found the normal rain and cool winter weather. On our way home again we endured the 8 to 15ft swells caused from storms several hundred miles north. SHAMAL. A low pressure system has just passed the North Arabian Gulfand a strong area of high pressure is moving in behind. The reason this phenomena does not happen more often is that the lows normally pass further north over the Caspian Sea aren JJN 8: Desert Duck; SH2 llker ' s wife Rochelle [es birth to Jared Clayton JAN 9: Detach from Battle group; Tough guy RM2 Damian lifts 3 times his body weight to win JAN 10: Transit Strait of Hormuz; Advance clocks -4 Services; Catholic Lav DELTA: Goodbye Gulf JAN 11 Protestant Divine Services; Steel Beach Picnic JAN 12: Captains Call; UNREP USS SACRAMENTt , Commence Command Indoc THE CRUISE 47 aaam

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H -, K ) SSING THE LINEdn a kinder gentler NAVY) EQUATOR BOUND : ELLBACKS INDUCT WOGS INTO THE IMPERIVM NEPTVNI REGIS The Captain pleads to King Nep- tune for leniencv. YN2 Grays, GMG3 Speller, PNSN Bel 1, OSSN Bochalosi, OSSN Huffer, SM3 Smith, and YN2Aguirre just can ' t answer correctly How long have vou been in the Navv? ! J17:MainSpaceFiredrill;OS2 er,FC2Gallagher,RM3Vignier,EN3 ker newest ESWS JAN 18: Crossed the equator; Protestant Divine Services; Catholic Lay services; Advance clock -6 Foxtrot; J AN 19: UNREP w USS SACRAMENTO; Martin Luther Kingcelebrationonflightdeck JAN 20: AwardsC«remony OPSdepartment; Main Space Firedrill THE CRUISE 49