Lynde McCormick (DDG 8) - Naval Cruise Book

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Did they just say what I think they said?

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I ' d just like to know when our new Chief Yeoman is coming on board.

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R Division L ro R, kneeling: EN3 Casebeer, EMS Tran, EM3 Rickman, EM2 Mollenhour, FN McKinnon, MRFA Maietta, MM3 Bartek, HTFN Carlson; standing: HTC Ray, LTJG Spradling, EMS Castro, HTFA Kruse, HTl Moen, EMS Danby, ICFN Blom, MMS Criswell, MM2 Meischke, ICFN Robinson, ICS Gumke, EMFN Kruse, HTFA Eagy, EMCS Ruszala, EMC Holden. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Now each of us from time to time, Has gazed upon the sea. And watched the warships pulling out, to keep this country free. And most of us have read a book, Or heard the lusty tale About the men who sail these ships. Through lightning, wind, and hail. But there ' s a place within each ship, That stories never reach, And there ' s a special breed of men. The legends rarely reach. It ' s dawn below the waterline. It takes a living toll, A hot metal living Hell, That sailors call the Hole, It houses engines run by steam. That makes the shafts go round, A place of fire, noise and heat. That beats your spirits down. Where boilers like Hellish heart. With blood of angry steam Are of molded Gods without remorse. And nightmares in a dream. Where turbines scream like tortured souls. Alone and lost in Hell, As ordered from somewhere above. They answer every bell. The men who keep the fires lit, And make the engines run. Are strangers to the world of night And rarely see the sun. And every hour of every day. They keep the watch in hell. For if the fires fail. Their ship ' s a useless shell. I ' ve seen those sweat-soaked hero ' s fight In superheated air. To keep their ship alive and right. Though no one knows they ' re there. And thus they ' ll fight for ages on, Till warships sail no more. Amid the boilers ' mighty heat. And the turbines ' hellish roar. So when you see a ship pull out. To meet a warlike foe. Faintly remember if you can. The sailors who sail the hole. LT Rinaldi BT3 Fred Lines USS KITTY HAWK (CV-G3)