Lewis Puller (FFG 23) - Naval Cruise Book

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Above: RM ' s Fruchey, McCormick and Stoffer receive letters of appreciation after the Philippines special ops. Far left: BM3 Allan earned a Navy Achievement Medal for courageously disconnecting the fueling rig during an UNREP emer- gency breakaway. Left: FC 1 (SW) Han- sen Is awarded his second Navy Achievement Medal. Above, GSM1 (SW) Shelling, FC1 Carreras and GMM2 Foulk are awarded Good Conduct Me- dals, while below, engineers EN1 (SW) Wroblews- ki, EM2 Schmitz and EN2 Granstrom are commen- ded by the CO for outstanding performance.

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A WINNING TEAM A ship itself is nothing more than a complex collection of aluminum and steel, of pipes and wires; It Is only as good as the men who operate It In peacetime and who will fight It in time of war. It was the crew that gave the ship Its per- sonality and operated It effectively during the deployment, enabling It to fulfill every commit- ment It was tasked with. This commitment to ex- cellence is recognized in small part on these pages, where just a few of PULLER ' S many out- standing sailors are pictured. Above: (from left) OS2 (SW) Ste- vens, OS3 Kelley, BM3 LoGrow, EN1 (SW) Wroblewski. EM2 Schmitz. EN2 Gronstrom and STG1 VanAusdall receive letters of ap- preciation from the CO for per- formance during special opera- tions in the Philippines. Right: (from left) GSM1 (SW) Brenegon, FC1 Carreras, DK1 Galles, RM1 Nunn, ET1 (SW) Schreiner and OS1 (SW) Wright are frocked to First Class in Hawaii. WINNING NA VAL BA TTLES Naval battles are won by sinking enemy ships, shooting down enemy planes and missiles, destroying enemy submarines, and preventing the enemy from sinking our ships, shooting down our planes and mis- siles and destroying our submarines. To be able to do that, it is well to design, manu- facture and have afloat, ready to use, the best weap- ons systems, engineering systems, communications systems and any other systems you need in battle that you can get with the money allocated to the Navy. All that good equipment must be operated with skill the way it should be or it won ' t accomplish much. All that equipment has to work the way it ought to or it is simply excess baggage. Busted equipment won ' t help in battle. If your gear won ' t work, it ' s no good to anybody. If the systems operators know how to use their equipment, if they ha ve kept the equipment in operat- ing condition, there is a good chance we can win naval battles. Admiral Arleigh Burke

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CHIEF PETTY OFFICERS From Left: ETCS (SW) Jack Cabana, STGC Kurt Keys, QMCS (SW) Lonny R. Thompson, ENC Donilo Biscocho, ICC (SW) George Clark, RMC Dave Martin, MSC Arturo Gutierrez, CSC (SW) Barry Hunter, EMCS (SW) Dominador Gobaleza, SKC Kenny Garalde, MAC (SW) Fred Lee, BMCS Dan Blair, FCCS Craig Sparlin. 160 Years of experience It ' s often said thiat ttie Ctiief Petty Officers run tiie Navy , and to a large extent that ' s true. Ttiese men are the real experts in each of their fields, and have years of experience in the navy. In fact, PULLER ' S Chiefs represent a total of over 160 years of Navy experience among them. When a sophisticated piece of equipment breaks, you can count on the Chief to be on the scene, providing the technical expertise and years of decl plate experience necessary to solve a tough problem. In addition, the Chief Petty Officers super- vise all aspects of divisional organization, scheduled maintenance, training, paperworl , ... in short, everything that mokes the ship work. And on LEWIS B. PULLER, qualified SCPO ' s and CPO ' s regularly stand bridge watches as OOD and JOOD underway. This is certainly a distinc- tion for PULLER ' S CPO Mess, as few if any other Pacific Fleet ships hove enlisted OOD ' s. The CPO Mess is headed by QMCS (SW) Lon- ny R. Thompson, the senior Chief Petty Officer assigned to LEWIS B. PULLER Of the four other Se- nior Chiefs on board the ship, FCCS Sparlin and ETCS (SW) Cobono were advanced to E-8 mid- way through the deployment.