Mount Katmai (AE 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER I COMMANDER WILLIAM N. MORGAN Commander William N. Morgan was born in Septem- ' 5 ' ' I' ber of 1924 in Arcata, California. He enlisted in the Navy I UIII In fifteen days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Commander Morgan advanced through the ranks to I llfi I Chief Fire Control Technician in june of 1951. In 1956 ...I I. Jg he received his commission as Limited Duty Officer in the rate of Ordnance. Commander Morgan's sea duty is extensive. He has served aboard a tanker CAO5, ,, an attack cargo ship QAKAD, an attack aircraft carrier QCVAD, a destroyer CDDD, a guided missile destroyer CDDGD, a guided missile frigate CDLGD, and the MOUNT Y. f' .3 f E,,,uqg2f ilk N fb I 3 f , fha 1 YZQM' 7 M Vfxff' 7' I -4 .1 KATMAI, an CAE5. His shore duty assignments include X I 911. instructor duty at Washington, D. C. and Fleet Train- ing Group, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Officer-in-Charge, Guided Missile Service Unit 212 at Concord, California, Operations Officer, Odnance Missile Test Facility, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Third Marine Division Naval Gunfire Officer for the Northern I Corps area of Vietnam, and is now serving as Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Magazine, Subic Bay, Republic of Philippines. Commander Morgan and his wife Diane currently reside in the Philippines with their three children. LIEUTENANT COMMANDER IOSEPH E. BALLOU Lieutenant Commander joseph F. Ballou was born in Rochester, New Hampshire on luly 29,1935. Upon completion of high school, at the age of eighteen, LCDR Ballou was accepted to the United States Naval Academy. On the 7th of june 1957 he was commissioned the rank of Ensign and received his Bachelor of Science degree. His first duty assignment was aboard the USS RANKIN CAKA-1035 as Assistant Communications Officer and Electrical Officer. ln january of 1959, he entered the U. S. Naval Submarine School in New London, Connecticutt. Upon completion of his submarine training in june of the same year, he was ordered to the submarine USS TORSK CSS-4235 and assumed the duties of Supply Officer and Engine- ering Officer. After three years aboard the TORSK, LCDR Ballou initiated his postgraduate studies at Brown University in the university's Advanced Science Pro- gram In June of 1965 he graduated with his Masters of Science in Physics In luIy1965 he reported to the submarine USS BECUNA CSS 3195 as Operations and Navigation Officer After serving two years aboard the BECUNA he received orders to COMOPTEVFOR to assist in the testing detection and classification of sonars LCDR Ballou assumed the duties of Executive Officer aboard the USS MOUNT KATMAI AE 16 on December 9 1969 LCDR Ballou and his wife Carolyn make their home in Rochester New Hampshire The Ballou s have three children Catherine joseph Ir and Karen I l I I . . . I I . l l 'I '

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COMMANDINC. OFFICER CAPTAIN HERBERT E. CAMP Captain Herbert E. Camp was born on the 30th of October 1921, in Alma, Oklahoma. He grew up in the oil field boom towns of Texas and Oklahoma. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in the Navy. After attending the Naval Academy Preparatory class, he entered the Naval Academy in 1942 and was commissioned as Ensign in Iune 1945. Upon graduat- ing from the Academy, he received orders or the Amphibious Forces in LSM CRD 411 and 412 as Gunnery Officer and Executive Officer. After completion of rigorous flight training in 1949 he joined the Navy's first F9F-2 jet fighter squadron VF-111 and deployed soon thereafter to the Korean Theater on the aircraft carrier PHILIPPINE SEA. He was awarded the Air Medal and Gold Star in lieu of a second Air Medal for this campaign. Subsequently, he served in five jet fighter squadrons, two of which he commanded. These were VE-132 on the carrier CONSTELLATION, and VF-124 which provides combat readiness training to all Navy F-8 CRUSADER pilots and maintenance personnel. For the period of three years between 1957 and 1960, Captain Camp was project officer for air-launched guided missiles at the Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake. He then served on the staff of Commander Carrier Division NINE as Air Warfare Officer during the initial Navy CVA combat operations in Southeast Asia. After completing a tour of duty in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in April 1968, Captain Camp assumed command of USS CASTOR CAKS-15. When the CASTOR was decommissioned in October 1968, he was ordered to command USS MOUNT KATMAI CAE-165. He assumed command in March of 1969. Captain Camp and his wife Ellen make their home in Vallejo, California. The CamP'5 have a married son who resides in Astoria, Oregon.

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