Truett (FF 1095) - Naval Cruise Book

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l l L to R5 Top to Bottom: TRUETT is viewed through the cockpit window of TRUDY Ill, the ship's SH-2 helicopter, as preparations are made for landing. USS AMERICA sets flight quarters for recovery. A logistics helo from USS AMERICA hovers over the flight deck while lowering TRUETT's Captain lpictured belowl by hoist. An ocean sunset is watched from the fantail. TRUETT steams in the calm waters of the Gulf of Aden. The Special Operations Russian helo carrier MOSKVA anchors off Greece. An ASROC frocket-thrown torpedol exits its launcher during anti-submarine exercises. KIEV, the Soviet's only aircraft carrier, anchors while TRUETT watches.

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Truett Lifestyles r + ti 014' TRUETT's first operations were to be with NATO forces but shortly after arriving in the Mediterranean, the exercise was cancelled. That change in the ship's operations schedule was destined to be only the first. Later in October she was sent to escort an American submarine through the Straits of Gibraltar. Once just before Christmas and again just after, ports and i operations changed while TRUETT observed Soviet task groups. During February and March 1978 she diverted to the Red Sea under COMIDEASTFOR.

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Truett Lifestyles Q A ,MXN X X , f Vx, A malior effort throughout the deployment was the replenishment and refueling of TRUETT at sea. Although relatively simple in port, receiving food and fuel at .um - sea can be complicated by everything from the ship's schedule for reaching port to 40-knot winds and 20-foot seas TRUETT once carried out a triple-evolution with USS SEATTLE supplying ammo on TRUETT's forecastle, fuel by a hose amidships and supplies by helo on the flight deck aft. ,