Morton (DD 948) - Naval Cruise Book

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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

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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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As LTJG Peterson glee- fully looked on (above left) and ETR2 Howell took bets fleft), ETN3 Rosendahl tried to end it all by slashing his wrists. Unfortunately, the Army Medivac helo proved too quick, (above right) ETN2 Hutcheson (below left) never looked up from his voltage meter.