Virginia (CGN 38) - Naval Cruise Book

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I MM2 Robert V. Dykstra MM2 John W. Kuzmich MM2 Kenneth R. Lauyans MM3 Kenneth M. Zeigler THE SNIPE'S LAME T Now each of us, from time to time, has gazed upon the sea, And watched the warships pulling out to keep this country free. And most of us have read a book, or heard a lusty tale, About the men who sail these ships, through lightning, wind and hail. But there's a place within each ship, that legend fails to teach. It's down below the waterline, it takes a living toll - A hot metal living hell that sailors call the 'Hole.' It houses engines run by steam that makes the shafts go round A place of fire, noise, and heat that beats your spirits down. Where boilers like a hellish heart, with blood of angry steam, Are molded gods without remorse, are nightmares in a dream. 9 Whose threat that from the fires roar is like a living doubt, That any minute would with scorn escape and crush you out. Where turbines scream like tortured souls, alone and lost in hell, As ordered from above somewhere they answer every bell. The men who keep the fires lit, and make the engines run, Are strangers to the world of night, and rarely see the sun. They have no time for man or God, no tolerance for fear, Their aspect pays no living thing the tribute of a tear. For there's not much that men can do that these men haven't done, Beneath the decks, deep in the hole, to make the engines run. And every hour of every day they keep the watch in hell, For if the fires ever fail their ship's a useless shell. When ships converge to have a war upon an angry sea, The men below just grimly smile at what their fate might be. They're locked below like men foredoomed, who hear no battle cry, It's well assumed that, if they're hit, the men below will die. For every day's a war down there, when gauges all read red, Six hundred pounds of heated steam can kill you mighty dead. So if you ever write their sons, or try to tell their tale, The very words make you hear a fired furnace's wail. And people as a general rule don't hear of men of steel, So little's heard about the place that sailors call the hole. But I can sing about this place, and try and make you see, The hardened life of men down there, cause one of them is me. I've seen the sweat soaked heroes' fight, in super heated air, To keep their ship alive and right, though no one knows they're there. And thus they'll fight for ages on, till warships sail no more, Amid the boilers mighty heat and turbines' hellish roar. So when you see a ship pull out to meet a warlike foe, Remember faintly if you can THE MEN WHO SAIL BELOW AUTHOR UNKNOWN 'I9

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MM1 Bruce P. Billings EM1 James R. Grable MM1 Robert S. Iliff so YOU'RE THE NEW gp g TRAINEE. 1 TRA ING fg Q fix A, Dlvlslon Though trainees think field-day their only job, the primary job of training divi- sion is producing the most knowledge- able nuclear watchstanders possible. They learn basic engineering concepts and become familiar with the engine- room. Students are then sent to their par- ent divisions as NUB's QNuclear Unquali- fied Billet.J However inexperienced, they are prized for their acquired talents - as field day technicians. S S You vill LISSEM undt LEARNV' Isn't there something to do besides . 1 u nn ET1 Charles J. Burke MM2 David S. Brinkley F