Reasoner (DE 1063) - Naval Cruise Book

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XN DE PARTME T 1 7 'W 9 ' X LTJG Terrence A. Councilor Personnel from the XN Department are responsible for the safe navigation of the ship and the efficient management of sick bay, the post office, and ship's office. During the deployment the YN's and PN,s continously sifted through the sea of paper that keeps the Navy go- ing, and thereby kept REASONER in touch with the day to day changes of our Navy. Whenever the mail arrived the PC's were the most popular men on board as they dis- tributed those welcome letters from home. Also. the Corpsmen helped cure us whenever someone would catch one of those not so rare tropical diseases. The Quarter- masters did an outstanding job of pointing the ship in the direction of the best liberty ports in the Pacific and dis- tinguished themselves by navigating the ship without any modern navigational aids and without a gyrocompass for over 8000 miles.