Morton (DD 948) - Naval Cruise Book

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Everyone scratched his head when they announced volleyball on the fantall while underway, but the Engineers proved It could be done (above left). SN Sweetland (above) attempts to shoot down SF3 Howard ' s curve ball in the skeet shoot, but he couldn ' t match the eye of CS3 Curby who walked away with first place Standby, shot ... from LT. Hansen.

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SPORTS Many are impressed when told that the MORTON is over 400 feet long, and weighs 4000 tons. Only those who have lived on a destroyer for months on end know how small that is. Exercise is limited to strug- gling through push-ups on a rolling deck, or, for the ambitious, lifting weights on a calm day. An inport period meant a chance to run, and run we did. The MORTON Westpac Sports Olympiad was an inspired way to let off steam. The program began before deployment in Long Beach when an unknown MORTON farm team challenged the First Fleet Flag Football powers and won the league crown. Then it blossomed into intra-ship competition in football, basketball, Softball, tennis, volleyball and skeet shooting. For the perennial egg-heads there was chess and ace-deuce. The results were almost always surprising — First Division overpowering the Officers ' team in basket- ball, the X.O. proving that his prowess at the plate wasn ' t all talk, FTGI Dangler humbling both the wardroom and chiefs ' quarters in the ace-deuce tournament, and STG2 Schultz walking away with the MORTON Cup in tennis. It was a great season. It took all the thought he could muster, but SN Huenefeld de- feated the CO. for the chess championship (above). The officers lost to SN Singleton and the First Division team in Pearl (below left) but came back to beat Operations despite a spectacular umpiring job by SN Smith (below). •i -.«i - '

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OE DIVISION What ' s an ET ETs will tell you he ' s an Electronics Technician. FTs say he ' s a guy who flunked out of FT school. But they ' ll never tell you how many times he ' s fixed fire control radar. STs will tell you he ' s a good guy as long as they keep borrowing his test equipment. EMs admit he ' s the guy who fixed their mul- timeter so they can burn it up again. GMs will tell you he ' s the keeper of the tube tester because that ' s all they ever see or use when they go into his shop. SKs claim he ' s a pain in the neck, but won ' t admit that if they lost him as a customer they ' d be out of a job. Officers will tell you he ' s drifty. But he ' ll never drift far. He ' s always tied down to his equipment. FIRST ROW (LtoR): S.P. Gearheart, ETC; C. A. Howell, ETN2; Nuyen Viet Dan, ENS, RVN; J. R. Peterson, LTJG; SECOND ROW: D. M. Reese, ETN2 W.D. Wheelock, ETNSN; R. J. Shunk, ETN3; A.Q. Hutcheson, ETN2; W.C. Sullivan, SN; A.C. Rosendahl, ETR3