Mount Hood (AE 29) - Naval Cruise Book

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i 23,57-veg, gig s f l . l' .si When a ship goes to sea and returns the families waiting in the quiet port ask, What did you do over there?'l Often the answer is slow in coming, incomplete, and hard to understand.. D Friends and family don't understand that in the dark of Combat Information Center it is always three o'clock in the morning, or that in the engine room the turbines never stop whining and the lights never go out. Even the sailor has trouble grasping at the answer. He understands that he was gone almost a year, and yet to recount all of that time seems impossible. There are physical marks, greying hair, weight gained or lost, eyes that can look to the horizon, but to the sailor nothing has changed. When the decision was made to print a cruise book, a group of us came together hoping to chronicle the events of what we thought was going to be an eight month deployment. Over a year has passed since that first meeting and in that time ma th' h h , ny ings ave c anged. Most of the original crew has left, and in their place a conglomerate of contributors has come t . . ogether. That eight month cruise became eleven months, ten days. And the cruise book became a Crew's Book. Herein then is a small presentation of the history and the crew of the MOUNT HOOD, from keel laying to April 1973. The Staff

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