Morton (DD 948) - Naval Cruise Book

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER LCDR G. PHILLIPS LCDR. Philipps graduated from USNA in 1957 and reported to the USS ALBANY (CA-123) as division officer in gunnery. Shifting to the West Coast in 1959 he reported for duty at oard USS HENRY V. TUCKER (DDR-875). He then served as ASW Officer and Fox Division Officer for ten months prior to tjecomlng Engineer Officer. After four years at sea LCDR. Philipps was assigned to Washington, D.C. for Director of Naval Intelligence within the office of the Chief of Naval Operations. In December 1963 LCDR. Philipps became Commanding Officer of the USS PENOBSCOT (ATA-188), an auxiliary tug. LCDR. Philipps entered the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey in the winter of 19G5 and earned a Master of Science degree in Physical Oceanography. Upon graduation In June 1968 he reported to the MORTON. V ■tiLII

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COMMANDING OFFICER CDR W.P. HUGHES, JR. Following graduation from the Naval Academy In 1952 CDR. Wayne P. Hughes, Jr. served two years aboard the USS GUSHING (DD-797) as Navigator and DC.A.. He then served on the staff of COMINRON FOUR before becoming the Executive Officer of the USS SHRIKE (MSC-201) from December 1954 until February 1956. CDR. Hughes then assumed duties as the Commanding Officer of the USS HUMMINGBIRD (MSC-192) until July 1957. .After a three- year tour at the Naval .Academy CDR. Hughes was the Operations Officer of the USS ROBERT A. OWENS (DDE- 827) until 1962 when he was transferred to the USS DYESS (DDR- 880) as her Executive Officer. .attending U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, CDR. Hughes earned a Master ' s degree in Operations Research in 1964. He then attended Nuclear Power Basic School in Bainbridge, Maryland followed by studies at the Nuclear Power Training Center in West Milton, New York, where he earned his qualification to operate nuclear power plants. In 1965 he returned to the DYESS serving again as her Executive Officer. From . ugust 1966 to August 1968 he assumed duties as ASW Analyst on the Staff of the Chief of Naval Operations (OP-9G). During this time he led the .ASW analysis of the successful Major Fleet Escort Study which yielded the DX DXC Program.

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the men Men have always had a fascination for the sea. Since Odysseus, men have made heroes of their brethren who went to sea, who as of another breed pitted themselves against a vast spirit which the song writers, the story- tellers and soothsayers dared not face themselves but could not escape. The men of the Morton are not heroes as Beowulf and the Old Man were, but we are sailors, and that makes us different. We know a comeraderie with our fellows, a feeling that our women can never know. And after weeks at sea, we know ourselves, if only through loneliness. And we know the sea. And she knows us. We are her men.