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'i" THI BU u OF r MA PER CAREEREL PUB CATION I I MARC.. i7 I. I MARCH 1967 602 NUMBER Nav-Pers-0 VICEADMIRAL BENEDICT J. SEMMES,Jr., USN TheChief ofNaval Personnel REARADMIRAL BERNARD M. STREAN,USN TheDeputy Chief ofNaval Personnel CAPTAINJAMES G. ANDREWS,USN AssistantChief for Morale Services TABLE OF CONTENTS Features Battleon the Plain of Reeds ............................ 2 ASWTraining: theSchool with Electronic Brains ____________ 4 This Is SEADuty - InPerson ........................... 8 Where to Go for Good Advice: Counterinsurgency Training ____ 12 All AboutComputers: How Do You Pronounce ADP? ________ 16 If Your FancyLeans TowardBig Figures ________________-_ 18 SecNav Nitre Speaks on ProjectManagement ______________ 21 In the Navy,Everything's Relative _____-____________-___ 22 Departments Letters to the Editor .................................. 26 Today's Navy ...................................... 32 Ne ws of Other ServicesServicescope:Other of News 40 TheWord .......................................... 42 Heroesand Leaders: Decorations & Citations ______________ 60 BulletinBoard Real Scoop: Navyman's Guide to Navy Manuals ____________ 44 Listof Well-Read Instructions and Notices ________________ 46 ID Cards and Credentials for Retirees Using Medicare ________ 48 Duty Options for Returning Vietnam Veterans _______-___"._49 Dlrectlves.. inBrief .................................... 50 Techniqueon Writing Ship's Histories .................... 51 VAP Motto: Every Man in Vietnam Is a VIP ________________ 53 VietnamService Medal: More Ships and Units Listed ___-____ 54 John A. Oudine,Editor AssociateEditors G. Vern Blasdell, News DonAddor, layout & Art Ann Hanabury, Research GeraldWolff, Reserve FRONTCOVER: 'WALKING' ON AIR-A monster-like NavyPatrol Air Cushion Vehicl (PACV)slides on its bubble up a landing ramp after a patrol along the delta watei waysin Vietnam. AT LEFT: SIDE BY SIDE-Guided missilecruiser USS Boston(CAG 1) and heavy cruiser US NewportNews (CA 148) berth together inNorfolk, Va. Together thecruisers have a ma battery of five turrets, each with three eighth-inchguns. Secondary batteries contain 22 duc purpose, five-inch gunsand 16 three-inch, rapidfire guns. Boston also has a twinTerri, missile syatem. CREDIT: All photographspublished in ALL HANbS Magazineare official Departme of Defensephotos unless otherwise designated. HOMECOMING-Air cushion craftreturn home toCat Lo after six-dayhunt. Rf: PACV apl VCsampan. 0 I A”” THFIEE MECHANICAL “monsters” when three U. S. Navy Patrol Air and Navy and elicopters. skimmed across the Plain of Cushion Vehicles (PACVs) left their The Vietna merican team Reeds. In their trail, the high grass base at Cat Lo on the Vietnamese intended to cat 1y guerrillas as of the swampy terrain lay beaten coast 35 miles southeast of Saigon. they tried to e! down from the air blast which seem- Their assignment would take them ingly carried the machines effortlessly deep inland. ANNJNG OUT le base at Moc ~ over the marsh. Hoa, the P worked closely “Quai Vat!” the Viet Cong guer- OVING on a cushion of air at with the aerial 2s-the UH-1B rilla fighters shouted, paddling their speeds up to 65 miles per hour, Huey helicopi quipped with sampans away as fast aspossible. the 39-foot-long craft can travel over dual machine hemselves, the (Quai Vat is the VC term for mon- water or any relatively flat surface. hovercraft swe 5s the swampy sters.) Combining speed, maneuverability fieldslooking ack pajamas.” Some of the enemy tried to conceal and a zero draft, the British-inspired Routed f,rom .lment beneath themselves by submerging under the machines arrived in South Vietnam the reeds or p om their sam- muddy surface-breathing through last May for test and evaluation. pans, the cal VC guerrillas the hollow stems for which the Plain The journey from Cat Lo to Moc were loaded ab e roaring mon- of Reeds is named. Hoa-a distance of 150 miles north- sters. The sight alone of the roaring west-took the vehicles up the myriad Whenthe c ,eratiom were Navy craft as they moved in con- rivers and canals of the Mekong completed, 32 Ins had been vinced many of the guerrillas to sur- Delta. damaged and v upplies, mostly render immediately. Otherswere On the morning of 21 November, rice, captured, suspects were persuaded when machine gun fire Operation Quai Vat began in full. It turned over to vince chief for reached the location of the elusive was to be a jointeffort, combining questioning. hideouts. Vietnamese Civilian IrregularDe- The followir the combined Operation Quai Vat, pronounced fenseGroup (CIDG) troops with forces experien :ir heaviest ac- “kwhy vat,” began in mid-November U. S. Army Special Forces advisors tion. Encounte ]at one PACV CAPTURED CONG-Crewmen of PACV take Viet Cong prisoner aboard. Rf: Quai Vat roars a arsh after VC. .. TEAMED TOGETIiER- -Navy copters bec operatordescribed as a“flotilla of enemysampans,” the PACVs and gunships successfully blocked the VC escaperoutes as CIDG/Special Forces troops were airlifted to comb thearea. Somedays later, in an areasome 16 miles south of MocHoa, the PP ICVDivision commanding officer, Lieutenant Kenneth H. Luenser, re- PO lrted a number of the enemy killed an groupda of Viet Cong taken Prisoner by his three craft. At the end of the Operation Quai V: it, Lieutenant Commander Charles H,. Billings, officer in tactical com- m!.-.and of the PACVs in the operation, commentedon his participation. RIDING HIGH-Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle skims across thePlain of “It wasan unusualexperience di- Below: Officers-in-charge of PACVs make plansfor the day‘s ope1 recting the PACV operations-in rice PE Iddies.” As navala officer, he aclded, “I couldn’thelp feeling a lit,tie funnyabout being 60 miles in land.” -Bob Martin, LTJG, USN ASW TRAINING- C QI with Electronic HE FLEET Antisubmarine Warfare teaches enlisted crewmembers to different situations, individuals are School at SanDiego has been seeknnd heartheir invisible and converted into well disciplined teaching ASW tactics to Navymen silent enemy. The otherteaches teams. since 1939. Backin those daysthe command personnel to make the de- The attack trainer looks and acts szhool was located at the San Diego cisions which destroy the enemy. like the major operationalcompart- Destroyer 13ase and offered only onc The enlisted men for ASW crews ments and equipment of an honest- course-UnderwaterSound Tactics receive theireducation through the,. to-goodness ASW ship. Thestu- and Sonar EquipmentOperation. electronic gear they will use at sea. dents learn how theequipment Students could complete their class- Other electronic devices produce for functions as well as its responses to room study intwo weeks and re- them the actions of the enemy sub- target detection, fire control solution ceive all the practical at-sea training marines which are out to sink their andlaunching and tracking weap- they needed in five. ship, ons. In addition, the trainer eval- Training and the school, however, Still other machines analyze the uates the tactical situation on which havechanged considerably since effectiveness of the students’ actions. the students are working. 1939. The schoolnow occupies Machinesalso tell the students The ASWTrainer’s statistics are, about 30 acres of land dotted with whether or not their efforts in com- in themselves, rather impressive. It World War I1 buildings, liberally bating their enemy were successful. occupies more than 3000 square sprinkled with newer structures of feet offloor space which is divided glass, concrete and glazed brick. LL THESE TEACHINGDEVICES are into six operatingareas: conning The TacticalTrainer Building is A combined in the Surface Ship station,combat information center, one of the latest additions tothe ASW Aktack Trainer. Electronically, underwaterbattery plot, problem school. It is the last word in ASW the trainer takes enlisted crewmen critique and display room, launcher electronics and its equipment is throngh the steps of searchingout captain’s control station andthe reminiscent of scenery in a science the enemy and attacking him. By computer projection equipment fictionmovie. Two trainers are observing basic ASW procedures, room. housedin the new building. One andoperating ASW equipment in ASW attack problems center in FLAG PLOT-Students learn by operating complicated gear in command center, a part of Coordinated Tactics trainer. rains the Underwater Battery Plot (URP). Here the students work with real- istic mockups of fire control equip- ment, sonar ;md their associated comrnnnications equipment. Submarine targets are searched outand all stations are notified when one is found. The student can attack the target using Asroc, over- the-side torpedoes or a Dash vehicle. \\’ith the help of computers, the student can select the weapons sys- tem best suited to the problem and fire the weapon. Computers then keep the target in sight and send the ASW weapon on a collision course. N THE COMBATINFORMATION CEN- I TER, the student can see the over- all tactical situation justas if the situation were real. Everything is there-the plot and status boards, read reckoning tracer, two radar re- peater units, a Dash controller unit, plotter and a fiddle board which con- tains communications, course, speed and wind indicators, control indi- cator and the ASW alarm. Herestudents observe their own ships andother vesselsas well as the planes which take part in the problem. The range bearing of the sub- marines is reported from sonar in UB Plot while information on sur- face vessels is furnished