Moinester (FF 1097) - Naval Cruise Book

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SEP 21-SEP 24 ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS SEP 25-SEP 29 HAMBURG, WEST GERMANY OCT O1-OCT O5 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN OCT 11-OCT 16 AARHUS, DENMARK OCT 18-OCT 23 PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND XI,-KN ll-IAN 1-I ROSTEX, SPAIN I.-KN 21-IAN 23 .-XULQLFSSF.-X B.-W 'ilk Il X1 YAN IQAFLB ll LA M.-XUD.-Xl BNA f+XlQD!NI.b-X M.-XR O-1-M.-XR Oo .-XLfUL'S'I'.-X H,-XX SILSII N N1AR O7-M.-XR 13 N.-XPLL5 IT.-Xl N MAR lo-M.-XR 20 C.-XXEXLT.-XIIQE P7R.4XNkfL M.-XR 25-MAR 20 P.-XLERMU SIQILN APR O5-APR ll N.-XPLLSA ITALN APR 2-1-APR 27 5-OLSSE TUNISIA , -M APR 20-Nl.-XX 03 C.-XT.-XNI.-X, ' QHPF? 'S , . ,ICN 15-JUN 10 M.-XLALI.-XT 1 ' , .F- -- 4- , V wi' q,,ff- tx

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LCDR C L FERRELL Lieutenant Commander Ferrell is a 1973 grauuate of Au burn University and the Naval Reserve Offic s Training Program Hrs initial assignment was onboard USS BLUERIDGE QLCC 193 as the Main Propulsic Assistant and Combat Information Center Officer Sul equent as signments included Nav1gat1onfAdm1n1stra ion Officer aboard USS BERKELY QDDG 15D P-1 Division Officer on USS RANGER CCV 61, Ship Control Officer onboard USS OLIVER HAZARD PERRY QFFG 75 First Lieutenant on USS PLYMOUTH ROCK QLSD 291 and on the staff of Commander Cruiser Destroyer Group EIGHT as Surface Operations Schedules and Planning Officer. Ashore he served as AmphibiousfMine Warfare Readiness Officer for Commander Naval Surface Fleet Atlantic He as- sumed the duties as MOINESTER s Executive Officer in II E OFFICER: 333333333333333 .E f I I . flag.- Q, The following words were written by MOINESTER's first Executive Officer and are wholly deserving of official recog- nition as . . . THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S LAMENT As nearly everyone knows, the Executive Officer has prac- tically nothing to do except decide what is to be done, to tell everybody to do it, to listen to reasons why it should not be done, why it should be done by somebody else, or why it should be done in a different way, to follow up to see if the thing has been done, to discover that it has not, to enquire why, to listen to excuses from the person who should have done it, to follow up again to see if the thing has been done, only to discover that it has been done incorrectlyg to point out how it should have been done, to concludethat as long as it has been done it may as well be leftwhere it is, to wonder if it is not time to disrate a person who cannot do a thing right, to reflect that he probably has a wife and large' family and that any relief would be ' t b d A - ' Jus as a and probably worse, to consider how much simpler and better the thing would have been done if one had doneit' oneself in thefirst place, to reflect sadly that one would have done it correctly in twenty minutes 49 'fhilig oufitli ,taken-,two days to find ouf gwhyithastalcenthree week' ' fi A ' ' I' ' I I , 1 , , ,Sg9IS0meb9dyto5doit correct- . .a,a s. s 9 lis-tr crte , I 2 4.4. it-.' .. , S ' F1 ,:' October 1986. Unit, campaign and service awards include two Navy Commendation Medals, Navy Expeditionary Medal, two Unit Commendation Medals, the Battle Effi- ciency E , and Vietnam Service Medal. Lieutenant Com- mander Ferrell is married to former Delanne Miriam Rawls of Daytona Beach, Florida. They have a daughter, Gabrielle Ray, and currently reside in Virginia Beach, Virginia. 1

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ff' I I E gg! 3 3. i1 i f S1-1f's f S Maxx IQEALM CP THE That the Crew of the Good Ship MUINESTER did pass into the Land of Icyclesand Snowflakes on 28 August 1986'at Longitude 0090 47'E and that I, BOREAS REX, Ruler of the North and Sovereign of allthe Frozen Reaches it touches, do herebydeclafe these hotblooded Neophytes inemy Royal Domain to be True and Trusted Ice and BrineiEng:rustedr RBLUENOSE. ' ' - - H R A I , fs 'af , ' The sky bl 1 I Even the food had a blue hue .A . I