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**Ail HANDS* THE BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL CAREER PUBLICATION J A N U A R Y 1968 Nav-Pers-0 1968 JANUARY NUMBER 612 VICE ADMIRAL BENEDICT J. SEMMES, Jr., USN TheChief of Naval Personnel REAR ADMIRALBERNARD M. STREAN, USN TheDeputy Chief of NavalPersonnel CAPTAIN JAMES G. ANDREWS, USN AssistantChief for Morale Services TABLE OF CONTENTS Features Home From the Sea-A Big Welcome .................................................. 2 Tomea Cougar,and Join the Jet Set .................................................... 6 Meetthe FourHundred-They Keep Those Jets Flying ........................ 8 Floating Lab: USS Mizar .......................................................................... 10 GallupHas Jet-Up-and-Go Too .............................................................. 11 The Champs: They Made It With Es ...................................................... 12 Want Good Food? The Neys Have It ...................................................... 14 JunkPatrol .............................................................................................. 17 JunglePatrol ............................................................................................ 18 AnInterview WithMCPON: Master ChiefBlack .................................... 20 A Report on Judo: Black BeltNavy ........................................................ 22 TheHabitability Team ............................................................................ 35 CenterspreadFeature YourIdeas Are Worth Money! ................................................................ 30 Introducing ... Ben Suggs ...................................................................... 32 Departments Lettersto the Editor ................................................................................ 26 Today’s Navy .......................................................................................... 36 NavyNew Year’s Log .............................................................................. 54 BulletinBoard HousingAssignment Procedures Spelled Out in CNO Directive ............ 44 CrowHunters Have Good Chance of BaggingLimit .............................. 47 cumstances warrant sending direct to sub- RatingControl Desk Ready to HelpYou .............................................. 49 activities the Bureaushould be informed. SeaDuty Cutoff Datesfor Seavey Segment A-68 ................................ 50 Distributionto Marine Corpspersonnel SpecialReport is effected by theCommandant US. Ma- rine Corps.Requests fromMarine Activi- ForNavy Juniors: Scholarship Opportunities .......................................... 58 tiesshould be addressed to the Com- TaffrailTalk ................................................................................................ 64 mandant. PERSONALCOPIES: This magazine is for sale by Superintendent John A. Oudine, Editor of Documents, US. GovernmentPrinting Oftice, Washington,D.C. 20402. The rate AssociateEditors forALL HANDS is 25 centsper copy; subscription price $2.50 a year,domestic G. Vern Blasdell, News (includingFPO and APO address far Don Addor, layout & Art overseas mail); $3.50 foreign. Remittances should bemade to the Superintendent of AnnHanabury, Research Documents. Subscriptions are accepted for Gerald Wolff, Reserve one, twoor threeyears. 0 FRONT COVER: MANNING THE RAIL--Crewmembersof heavycruiser USS NewportNews (CA 148) standformation during International Naval Review held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Onboard were 155 midshipmenparticipating in their at-sea trainingprogram. 0 AT LEFT: SWING SHIFT-Doubleboatswain’s chair highlines Under Secretary of the Navy Charles F. Bairdand ADM John J. Hyland, Commander inChief Pacific Fleet, from USS Haleakaka(AE 24) to USS Kawishiwi (A0 146) duringvisit to ships on station in the Tonkin Gulf.-Photo by R. C. Moen, PHC, USN. 0 CREDIT: All photographspublished in ALL HANDS Magazineare officialDepartment of Defensephotos unless otherwise designated. were a river hydro-survey with mem- Oak Hill‘s most unusualcargo. She bers of Underwater Demolition Team transportedthe junk to Kaohsiung, 11, and a joint U. S.-Philippine train- Taiwan,where the local fishermen’s ing exercise. association presented the ship with a Weiss also became a mother ship banner and bouquet of flowers. for Swift boats and Coast Guard cut- Oak Hill was also called upon to ters.She provided hot meals, sup- salvage a Swift boat, PCF 97, after plies, and repair parts to the coastal other attempts had failed. The craft surveillance craft. hadbeen sunk by hostile fire 150 The attack transport uss Mont- miles southwest of Saigon.Within rose (APA 212), also backin her eighthours of herarrival on the San Diego home port after a seven- scene, Oak Hill had the patrol craft monthtour. aboardand on its way toa repair Overseas assignments forMontrose facility. included a five-week period as sup- The San Diego-based tank land- portship for river craftoperations ingship uss KemperCounty (LST near Vung Tau, Vietnam. 854), after seven and one-half She also took part in an amphibi- months with the Seventh Fleet. ous landing exercise with the Korean KemperCounty’s dutiesin the Navy and Marines. Shelater oper- combat area included shuttling mu- ated near the Demilitarized Zone be- nitions between Da Nangand Chu tween North and South Vietnam. Lai,and acting as mother ship for e uss Seminole (AKA 104), after craft of River Flotilla One, a mobile seven months away from San Diego, river force. herhome port. Seminole carried uss Snohomish County (LST cargoto Vung Tau,and Da Nang, 1126), at San Diego after an eight- Vietnam, then joined Montrose in month deployment. the amphibious trainingexercise with Duringher WestPac tour, she the Korean Navy. transported vehicles, ammunition, Seminole took part in four combat general cargo and combat troops to operationsnear the Demilitarized various trouble spots along Vietnam’s Zone: Beau Charger, Bear Bite, Bear rivers. Claw, and Beacon Guide. Snohomish County, accompanied uss Oak Hill (LSD 7), after by uss Caroline County (LST 525), steaming more than 35,000 miles in pioneeredU. S. ship navigation of herseven-month deployment inthe the shallow Cua Viet River, near the FarEast. A 6O-ton NationalistChi- Demilitarized Zone. nese fishingjunk, stranded in Subic Cargo was previously transported Bay after being damaged at sea, was by small utility landing craft limited JANUARY 1968 thonsands of gallons of fresh water, with the Sixth Fleet,logging more Newportafter a seven-month, In one six-week periodin the than 40,000 miles and visiting ports 30,000-milecruise as part of the SouthChina Sea, Sacramento pro- in Spain,Italy, Sicily, Malta,Crete, NATO exercise MatchmakerThree. videdover 200 separateunderway France and Majorca. The manyports visited included replenishments. Two Newport-based destroyers, Hamilton,Bermuda; Lisbon, Por- The internalcombustion repair uss Fiske (DD 842), and Dyess tugal; Hamburg, Germany;Rotter- ship uss Tutuila (ARG 4)~ after (DDR 880), after four months’ Mid- dam, Netherlands; and Montreal and seven months off the coast of dle East duty. Quebec, Canada. Vietnam. Duringtheir deployment,both While on the Matchmaker cruise, Duringher tom, Tutuila was as- ships aided vessels in distress. Dyess Zellars welcomed 75,000 visitors in signed to Commander Naval Forces, helped the sloop Atlantis after that the 12 nations visited. Vietnam, supporting Operation Mar- vessel and a merchant ship collided, USS Essex (CVS 9), back from ket Time and Came Warden forces, damaging the boat’s rigging beyond a four-monthdeployment to North- Tutuila’s responsibility was repair repair. Dyess towed the sloop to the ern Europeand the Mediterranean. andupkeep of destroyers,radar Creek island of Rhodes. The 26,000-mile cruisecarried the picketships, Coast Guard cutters, Fiske went to the aid of two ships QuonsetPoint-based carrier into Swift boats, tank landing ships, and within a period of fourdays. First ports in Norway,Holland, West river patrol boats. was the Panamanian cargo ship Pearl Germany,England, Italy, andthe of Victoria, which was in danger of islands of Malta and Sicily. Ships returning from Atlantic and breaking up in heavyseas. Fiske’s Duringthe cruise, Navy Unit Mediterraneandeployments in- motorwhaleboat was dispatched to Band 146, embarked in Essex, enter- cluded : help the merchant ship’s crew of 39 tained approximately 320,000 people Four ships of Escort Squadron abandon ship. Whenthe seas sub- in thevarious countries visited. On Eight and one from Escort Squadron sided next morning, the crew elected a two-daytour of SouthHolland, 10, uss Rrumhy (DE 1044), Hartley to return to their ship to save herand 200,000 heard the band in a series (DE 1029), Lester (DE 1022), her cargo. of jazz concerts and special appear- Willis (DE 39.5), and Courtney (DE Fourdays later, Fiske aided the ances. 1021), back in Newport, R. I., after crew of aSaudi Arabian ship. The The band’s largest single audience three months’ deployment. tanker D’Karum was aground on the came in Hamburg, when a crowd of Covering nearly 26,000 miles, the island of Dahret Abid, about 20 miles 32,000 gathered in the town park for squadronvisited ports in Norway, off the old porttown of Saukin, a jazz concert. Denmark, Sweden,Finland, Scot- Sudan. The crew had left the ship One of the highlights of the cruise, land, England, West Germany, Hol- and were on the island withont food accordingto a newsrelease, came land, Spain, Italy, and the islands of and water. when Essex steamed into the waters Malta and Sicily. A crew