Tulare (AKA 112) - Naval Cruise Book

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H 1 l Wi J! THIRD DI I IO The coxswains of TULARE's eighteen boats make up the nucleus of Third Divi- sion. These men and boats are the heart of TULARE's main battery and they have tremendous demands placed in them during condition 1-A. More than 1500 times the ramps on the boats were dropped and over a thousand miles were driven by the coxswains. The coxswains carried in their boats everything from jeeps to bulldozers, while the boats themselves were used in a variety of ways -- from patrol boats to lemonade boats. The boats and men of Third Division were called upon to do many and varied tasks and they responded in true TULARE spirit. l . NX R f N X e W .N . sl ,GX , rl 5. a V ' . w 'x , But Bosn', if that's Batman, why the big S on his chest?

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Delaney, back to'the engineroom tomorrow morning! 5 :.fnl4.LLx.1 39-If n.: E Eli .annzsl N

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-Y . f - , 3 I ' , 'if'Z1?i i5M f 2 E 5 f X, 1 I I ii ' 1 4 I -1 s. . F0 RTH DI 11 O Fourth Division is responsi- ble for all the weapons on the ship -- from the BMOW's 45 to TULARE's six 3 f50 mounts the men in Fourth Division perform a variety of tasks concerned mainly with fighting the ship. Eight targets were built and destroyed-Q and over 1000 rounds of 3 ammo and 150 hand grenades were expended during the cruise. Qlt would have been less ifComp- ton had not been attacked in Chu Laiy. , Sixty snakes, 300 cardboard cartons and 83 fish were des- troyed by our security guards while at anchor. But the trigger- happy men allowed no one to penetrate TULARE. I built it myself, with an erector set. 3 .-. ir.-,fn ,an if Z 7 2 3 1 l J I T Z il i 2 2 2 2 F VI!