Wasatch (AGC 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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----5mmm!-Fu..U-ww'wqu..--''-'EEE'H''ii'''H'' ' iiiiiiii!llllllliilliilllllllll------g-I-1 From left tv fright first row Goltz, Chief Goodwin, Ensign Tucker unch. ,Eckert 1 Chief Eager, and Benton. Second row Succio, Uhrich, Kelly, Howard Forsahyflg?r Haskell, and Bivisnano. Third row Barnum, Leffler, Whittaker, Duerschiedt ' Whitfield, Hynes,-and Minser. Not in picture Denson. ', T y' , B DIVISION I It won't be long now, Mr. Tucker, until you'll be leaving us. We did have a swell time of it, though. There was C. W. Morris with his corn cob pipe hat, who helped organize a swell little division. I can still hear them word for Eager, CWT, who played an important part as oil king. We never the importance of his job, until some CWT, hasn't been with us long, but he soon. Benton, WTlc, came aboard when He will be leaving us soon too, going and crooked passingnthen did realize Goodman, 1 beeretiring. we were in a tight spot with no watch standers. out on the point system. Watts, WT2c, lost his of us had a taste of it ourselves. knew you from the old navy. He'll sea bag coming cross country. He didn't mind, though, for he get out of two weeks , work waiting for it. Barnum came after everything was done and now complains of how, hard he worked. Hynes, WT2c, forgot the water had to stay in the gage glass and not out. Will you ever again run into a man who can laugh like he does? He should have, gone in for opera. Whittaker, WT2c, will be married soon to Elsie. Does he look I I like a person who could settle down to family life like he says he will? I guess Elsie will decide that. It's hard to say if Forshay will go out. He does have a a contented look and really believes he's cut out for navy life. Howard will be back in the grocery business in a few more months. He has decided after a lot of deep. I thinking that he wouldn't trade the grocery business for a navy career. Whitfield, Flc, is looking forward to going back to the farm. Someday, he says, he will own his own. Succio, WT3c, is going out and back to his machinist job. You would think Kelly, Flc, being a tin can sailor, would want to ship over, but he's going back to Oklahoma. Minser will go out too, so he says, and I'm not sure that he isn't con- T templating marriage. Duerschiedt, Flc, will probably stay around for about twentyf years. Urich, B2c, is talking about going out, but I guess he is just lonesome for his wife and little girl and who can blame him? Leffler has quite a novel career behind him, but he's going out to run his father's furniture store. It'e really hard to say what Denson will do for he's as changeable as the weather, but I think you will agree he's in to stay. Bisignano, will soon be taking over the oil king 1' job. One thing for sure, he's big enough, all 220 pounds df him. It seems that with the exercise he's getting going up and down the ladders he'd reduce, but he's still gaining. Haskell will be getting hitched as soon as he gets home. He has only 31 points, but he likes the fireroom. So, Mr. Tucker, we all say goodbye, and bon voyage, ' 'e -'rf -H ' r - -- , , - - -f1- 'Zi b. .:.:s: '-

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pm u fir 1: wnxsn vner Fails Hytjan Gullezr. Chief Dever, Lt. Cigildyi Ehigf Johnsonfuhocak, Boylan, iyers, and Tavares. Second row Scott, gnu-., nay, suggins, Smith, scsrborougn, olmick, Riley, Webber. Snyder. and A Snglley. Third row Gibson, llartin, Kiser, Preston, Waddington, McNair, Hartlings Sgan, Kylie, and Legal. Not in picture Beeker, Fleck, Benson, Mitchell, Brown, I and Guntin. A DIVISION Auxiliary, Available, Able , As you, dear shipmates, browse through this book, you will undoubtedly chance upon numerous divi 1 s on reporters, who, with flowery paragraphs, will lead you to believe that I they are in the best, most efficient division aboard. Do not be deceived, simply ask any man in 'A' Division. Anyone who thinks otherwise is 'A pragmatic eva 1 t ' pr r ca or, with a propensity for oratorical sonorosity, which is too pleonastic to be expeditiously assimi- 1ated.' Seriously, our division is comprised of two groups, topaide and below deck groups. ' The topelde grou mans and p maintains the boat engine repair shop, emergency fire pumps, emergency generators, after steering, and also cares for steam heating and deck machinery repairs. The below decks group mans and maintains the ice machines, air-cooling machines, portable refrigerators, scuttlebutts, evaporators and the machine shop. The log room, where all machinery history of the engineering divisions is tiled and kept up to date, is also a very able part of our division. !or a return to the lighter side we proudly present 'Available' loylan, lT2e. A water tender should belong to 'B' division, but since he is the last er-at-arms of the engineers' berthing compartment, he is a member of the most highly respected 'A' division. Not only does he guard our sleep an our gear, but he is a very active jeweler, haberdasher, and laundry executive. Also, his success as a finan cle ha d I t - t ts of the Southwest Pacific t th r 8 apr.. rom h. far flung ou po. e e finlneill 'l08111s on wan st f.. 'mf b HA ll bl '.. New, that you are convinced of 'A' division bein th ree 8 8 o', V. l 0 g e most attractive division aboard, fall in outside the log room anytime between the h f 081 d will do the rest. Low point men preferred. our' o 5 ee 1630- 'Peppy' Tavares,

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