THE BUREAU 01 ERSONNEL CA " E AUGUST 1967 607 NUMBER Nav-Pers-0 VICEADMIRAL BENEDICT J. SEMMES,Jr., USN TheChief of Naval Personnel REARADMIRAL BERNARD M. STREAN, USN TheDeputy Chief ofNaval Personnel CAPTAINJAMES G. ANDREWS, USN AssistantChief for Morale Services TABLE OF CONTENTS Features Navy Comes tothe Rescue ............................. 2 The Fleet Greets Stars at StarsGreets Fleet The Sea L 8 Navy’s Bees Sprout Wings of Steel ........................ 12 Farewell to the Flying Boats and Their Tenders __________-___ 14 Orion andNeptune Carry On ........................... 17 D ate Line: Vietnam Line: Date _ _______-__ 18 Life Line of the Pacific: ComServPac ...................... 22 Destroyer Doctor 25 Ask the Man Who Flies One-Navy’s Spad _________________ 26 Navy Exchange, Taiwan _______________________-_-___-_ 28 Departments Today‘s Navy ~ ___________ 30 Servicescope: News of Other Services ..................... 40 The Word 42 Word The Letters tothe Editor ................................... 58 Bulletin Board ForBetter Navy:a Another Lookat the Record 44 Now’s.... the Time to Be Thinking About Operation Deep Freeze _-_ 48 DlrectlvesInBrief ...................... _-__-______ 49 To an LDO Commission via the WO Program ________________ 51 A Reporton A LivingConditions Whidbey at _ 52 ReportonBachelor Housing ~ ...................... 54 This Completes Listing ot Ships Eligible for AFEM ____________ 55 Taffrail Talk ........................................... 64 John A. Oudine,Editor Assotiate Editors G. Vern Blasdell, News Don Addor, layout & Art Ann Hanabury, Research Gerald Wolff, Reserve 0 FRONT COVER:SHARP SIGHT-An E2A Hawkeye earlywarning aircraft is directed toa Seventh Fleet carrier’scatapult for launch. Theaptly named Hawkeye alertsthe carrier to approaching aircraft with its keen radar domeeye. 0 AT LEFT: SEASILHOUETTE-The guidedmissile destroyer USS Cochrane (DDG 21) makes a high-speed starboardturn into the sun asshe chases asonar contact inthe South China Sea.-Photo by William Powers, PHC, USN. CREDIT:All photographs published in ALL HANDS Magazine are official Department of Defensephotos unless otherwise designated. THEFIRST TRY with this system al- most didthe raft in. “I thought we were going right under the stern of that wreck,” Giv- ens said later. “I could feel the coral tearing the bottom of the raft apart. I was screaming at the fishermen to climb down the ropes, strung be- tween the two wrecks, to the raft so that we wouldn’t have to get too close. They were frightenedand didn’t understand what I was saying. I thought for awhile that I would have to climb upand show them. It was a tense time.” The raft finally succeeded in car- rying seven of the fishermen to the landing craft. Givens and Upchurch set out again. About halfway to the wrecks a large wave broke over the raft. GOING UP-Navyteam at Do Nang‘! i Civic ActionDivision put up one of Men and raft went in different direc- their ’instant’ houses for burned-out fa lmily as the village children look on. tions. the lee side of the reef, there looked the chief and pull him hack aboard “The raft had turned completely to he little chance of success. the raft. over,” recalled Givens. “I couldn’t Winds of 25 to 40 knots and 15- Rowing wasn’t going to dothe see Upchurch anywhere and I foot seas made immediate rescue at- job. LT Smith decidedthey would thought sure he was gone. Then this tempts impossible. Chase County have to shoot a line over to the big hand came sliding up over the maneuvered up and down the reef, Japanese with the line-throwing gun. side of the raftand he climbed in, trying to find a way to help the two In spite of the seas, the second try “He yelled, ‘You aren’t going to stricken craft. For two days the was a perfect shot. lose me.’ The raft was upside down weatherraged. The situation be- The raft set out again, crewed by then, and we decided not to try to came desperate. Weather or not, the Givens and Engineman Third Class right it. The bottom had been fishermen had to be taken off their Robert W. Upchurch. This time the chewed away and we figured we failing perch. raft had a guideline pulled by the could use the top for a deck. Inthe early hours of the third Japanese on board the grounded ves- “We made it to the wrecks and day, Chase County lowered a small sel in additionto the retainer line took off 12 men this time. I think landingcraft carrying seven volun- handled by the men on the landing they had figured out that we wanted teers, led by Lieutenant ( jg) Charles craft. them to climb down the ropes to us W. Smith. They had with them a because we didn’t have nearly the 15-man life raft.Their job: go in trouble with that trip.” and get those people. FIGHTING THEIR WAY through the THEN what was supposed to be the towering swells and howling last trip for the raft was winds, the men moved the landing launched. craft to within 150 yards of the fish- “There were 10 more of the fisher- ing boats, as close as it could go and men on the wreck, and we didn’t ex- still stay off the reef. At this point, pect any real trouble. Both Up- Chief Commissaryman Richard J. church and I were pretty worn out Kehoe and Seaman Michael J.Giv- by this time, but we were sure we ens manned the raft and rowed to- could make it. We maneuvered the ward the Japanese. raft through the surf up to Shofdu. The other volunteers stayed with The sea was really gettinq bad, but the landingcraft and handled the we got the people aboard. line that was secured tothe raft. “On the. way back, I felt kind of Kehoe and Givens rowed furiously, relieved. We still had a lot of work but were pushed 30 yards off course to do and things to worry about, hut by the seas, and missed the fishing the big part of the jobwas over, boats. They were being towed back ?nd we were finallyontop-we toward the landing craft when a thought. Then a big wave hit and huge wave caught the raft at an an- dumped two of the fishermen out of gle and dumped ChiefKehoe over- ON THE SPOT-Copter crew from the raft. board. NAS Atsugi, Japan, was on hand to ‘‘I could have cried. The two man- Luckily, Givens was able to grab rescue a fishermaninjured in a fall. aged tograb a line and make it 4 ALL HANDS back to the wreck, but for us it only four men in the United States meantanother trip through that so qualified, Doctor Goodman is surf. I was so tired I couldn’t think stationed at the Submarine Base, in straight. They took me out of the Groton, Conn. He recently had to raft when we got back to the land- take his knowledge more than a ing craft with the remaining eight thousand miles tohelp solve a res- men.” cue problem. Boatswain’s Mate Third Class A civilian diver had run into trou- Michael A Beylotte tookGivens’ ble while he was working from an oil place for the last trip. rig off the coast of Louisiana, at a The final trip, with a raft that was depth of 250 feet. His equipment almost completely shredded, was the became entangled,and he was longest of them all. But the two forced to stay beyond decompres- fishermen were rescued. sion limits before he was freed. When the last of the Japanese fish- While another civilian diver ermen had beentaken aboard the worked to free the distressed man, landingcraft, the boat battered its Dr. Goodman wason his way to way through 20-foot waves back to New Orleans Naval Air Station, Chase County. The three-day ordeal where a Coast Guard helicopter was was over. standing by to take him out to the The29 fishermen were taken to drilling rig. Subic Bay Naval Base, and were During the struggleto free the later picked up by another Japanese entangled diver, both divers reached fishingvessel. about 300 feet. Meanwhile, the MAN OVERBOARD from carrierop- Navy doctor was having his prob- erating in Tonkin Gulf is helped into lems getting to the scene. ODERN RESCUE STORIES are not A ski-equipped aircraft sought to always as exciting as that one, rescue collar by helicopter crew- pick up Dr. Goodman in frigid Gro- however. Sometimes they involve member for lift and return to his ship. ton, but was unable to land because just plain, hard, unglamorous work. the runway was covered with eight The salvage ship uss Opportune inches of snow and visibility was (ARS 41)had such a job recently demonstrated recently. poor. when she pulled the Colombian While Tolouana was anchored off The StateHighway Patrol es- Navy Tug ARC Pedro De Heredia Acapulco, Mexico, during a routine corted him to Quonset Point, R. I., free. The 205-foot tug went aground visit, she was called upon to assist where a Navy LC-130 was able to near the harborentrance atCarta- the commercial American tug Ellen touch down. Dr. Goodman was gena, Colombia, while attempting to Foss, which was en routeto South flown to the Naval Air Station at salvage another stranded tug. Vietnam with two ferries in tow. Virglnia Reach, Va. There, he Opportune was dispatched to the The tug had damaged a cylinder boardeda Navy A6 Intruder jet scene from San Juan, P. R., after the in her engine, and she had to have which quickly got him to New Or- Commandant of the Colombian it fixed before she could continue on leans.