Topeka (CLG 8) - Naval Cruise Book

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Supply Officer Lcdr J L Cobb SU PLY DE PART A modern warship and her crew cannot keep performing with-2 out replenishment. And herein lies the demanding task ofthe Supply Department. At some time, every piece of TOPEKA equipment will have a difficulty of one kind or another. A Radar in Combat Informa- tion Center fails right in the middle of a critical situation and Supply must be able to put its hands on the needed tube quickly and without difficulty, a small part of the shell casing extractor mechanism in a five inch gun mount breaks and must be replaced, it is a rarely re- placed part and one must be tracked down, The crew must be fed three times a day, and, of course, they must be paid. Not a TOPEKA sailor's day goes by but he in some way comes into direct contact with the Supply Department and its many functions. And each func- tion must be planned, down to the desserts, of a meal to be served months into deployment, to what tubes and capacitors are known, through years of experience, to be the ones that most frequently go out. And there is a strict budget to be adhered to and so each pur- chase must be wisely chosen, for at the end of the money, TOPEKA will have to do without. And this situation a warship cannot afford to slip into, for combat readiness on the line is a function' of her material condition. This, obviously, is alcritical responsibility. Sales Officer Ltjg.. RC. Bond Disbursing Officer Ens. RJ.. Peden p Commissary Officer Ens. L.A. Sears Stores Officer WO-1 K.l.. Cochran