V OLUME 3, ISSUE 1 M ARCH 2004 USS KING (DLG-10/DDG-41) ASSOCIATION NEWS LETTER

PUBLISHED BY: DAVE NESBITT 1530 Ocean Bay Dr. #305 Key Largo, FL 33037 [email protected] ELECTION ISSUE AND THE CRESCENT CITY BECKONS

Message from the Board of Directors Dave Nesbitt, President This issue of your Newsletter is an important one. It is time for you to vote on how the association is to be run, who is going to run it and where the 2005 reunion will be held. Please take a few moments and complete the Ballot sheet located within this newsletter and send it in.

In the past we decided on the next reunion location at the Annual Membership Meeting. We have found that doing so, put us a year behind in Reunion Planning. The Board of Directors made a risk decision that most of you would favor a reunion in Seattle. Toward that end, Ray Mar- shall, Reunion Director has undertaken some preliminary steps to de- velop a reunion plan for a Seattle location. We need your vote before proceeding any further. You will be asked to vote for Seattle or some other location.

There have been significant changes made to the Bylaws, which re- June 10th-13th, 2004 quire 2/3 of the Membership to approve. The draft of the Bylaws is on the King Website for you to review, comment on and vote for. If anyone does not have web access and would like a copy of the draft, please con- tact any Board Member and we will mail you a copy.

One of the changes to the Bylaws is that the terms of office for Board Members have been reduced to one-year terms. This gives you, the member, the opportunity to “fire” any Board Member that you feel is not doing their job. Every year all Board positions are open. Current Board Members can run again for a limit of three terms. This year, three of our

1 Looking Forward to Seeing you Board Members will not be seeking re-election and they will be very much missed; Ray Marshall, Bruce Carlsen and one of the co-founders of the Association, Steve Cuddihy.

If you have some time that you can spare to support the association, it would be gratefully accepted. All of the board members are wearing multi- ple “hats”. Ray Marshall is not only up to his “eye balls” with the 2004 Reunion in New Orleans, he is also doing preliminary work on the 2005 Reunion so that the next Board of Directors does not have to play “catch up”, add to that, he is the Chairman of the Nominating Committee and the Election process for the next Board of Directors. Jim Sievers, the Admini- stration Director, is also the Database Manager, Bruce Carlsen is currently The Doubletree Downtown Hotel the Membership Director with the additional responsibilities of treasurer and Ship’s Store. Jack Dineen, Vice President, is also the Recording Sec- retary for the Association, lastly myself, I have the additional responsibili- ties as Publisher. So you can see, there is plenty of work to go around, ex- cept Publisher (I have to have some fun!)

Another change to the Bylaws, better defines “Associate Membership”; this category of Membership is for friends that do not meet the require- ments for Regular Membership. We now have one Associate Member and that is Connie Cuddihy. Connie has been an active supporter of the asso- Photo from PSNS Achieves ciation since it’s inception. Last year, Connie took the minutes at the An- nual Membership Meeting. Welcome Aboard Connie. Hull Number 10 Getting her Keel Laid April 1957 Also time is running short for signing up for the 2004 Reunion in New Or- leans. For the two past reunions the association used a professional reun- ion service to schedule and coordinate the reunions, they could take risks in the booking of hotel rooms etc. This year we are going it on our own and we do not have the financial resources to take those risks. In a few weeks we have to guarantee a certain number of rooms. If we fail to have those rooms booked, we (the association) pay for the difference. On the flip side, if we guarantee too few rooms some shipmates may not be able to get a room yet want to attend. Please send in those Registration forms Photo from as soon a possible. Ray Marshall and his Reunion Committee have pulled PSNS Achieves together what we think is an outstanding reunion package for you with outstanding pricing, you do not want to miss this one. Hull Number 10 May 1957 Recently three of our members, Bill French, Charles Samuelson and Donald DeTemple, sent in cash donations to the Association. The Board of Directors would like to thank these shipmates for their support. Besides physical support we always need, and can use financial support.

Lastly, the previous board did not turn over the “Association's Crystal Ball”, so we cannot use it to know what you want or do not want, we have to rely on you telling us. If you have comments, please let us know by Photo from contacting any Board member or myself at; [email protected] PSNS Achieves

Hull Number 10 We are looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans. January 1958

2 ber of the Board, should I have been elected, as I am REUNION 2004 the Chairman of our Kalamazoo Area Emmaus Com- Ray Marshall, Reunion Director munity this year and beginning in October I will also be the Lt. Governor of our Michigan District Kiwanis The thermometer reads 9 degrees as I write Division 12. It has been a privilege to have served this and you can bet my thoughts are on June and our our Association and will continue to make myself New Orleans reunion. Have you made your hotel res- available to the oncoming Board whenever possi- ervations and sent your reunion registration to Bruce ble. Let's all commit ourselves to make the USS King Carlsen? We have 36 registered so far and our goal is (DLG-10/ DDG-41) Association a place where ship- 150. Remember we only have a limited number of mates feel at home. It has been a rare and distinct rooms reserved at the special reunion rate; don’t miss pleasure to have served as your representative of our out! great USS King (DLG-10/ DDG-41) Association as a The Reunion Committee, comprised of; Bill Member of the Board of Directors, Thank You! Brewer, Bruce Carlsen, Richard Crockett, Steve Cud- Rosanne and I look forward to seeing you in New Or- dihy, Tony Murphy, Roger Geist, Jim Sievers, Doug leans! Schultz, Dave Wood, Chuck White, Dave Nesbitt, and myself, have all been very beneficial to our organiza- MEMBERSHIP tion but Jim Sievers, Richard Crockett, Dave Wood, Bruce Carlsen, Membership Director and Doug Schutz have all four made significant contri- butions to the effort. Dave Wood made the initial con- So far we have 31 renewals for 2004. (I’m writing tact with the Convention Visitor's Bureau and the pre- this on Feb. first.) We also have six new members and liminary site survey, Jim took a trip to New Orleans our first associate member. Welcome aboard. You from for the site survey, at his own expense, don’t have the duty. Richard Crockett has been doing a fantastic job of get- Well maybe you do have the duty. To grow the As- ting the word out to a variety of venues, and Doug sociation we need you to locate your shipmates and Schutz has made contact with a DJ and also some fol- tell them about the King Association. I know it is low up visits to the hotel. tough but there is something you can use for a clue to Our Reunion Committee is doing a great job to locate your liberty partners, the guys you worked with make sure we have a great event but we need your as- or the guys involved in that incident you would all sistance. Using the words of a famous New Orleans rather forget. Chef, “Let’s kick it up a notch”, if we could have The Association has a miner working for us. Terry some door prizes. If you know of a vendor and/ or Forsyth is doing a fine job but he is only one man. have access to items you feel would make a great door There are only so many hours available for Terry to prize please get that word to me, your Reunion Direc- do what he does. We can use your help locating those tor, our President and Newsletter Editor, or send it old shipmates. This especially goes for the crews who along with your registration form to Bruce, our Treas- had no cruise books. We have nowhere to start our urer. The other thing we need you to do is to contact search. all of the shipmates you have kept in contact with over How do you find them? Do you remember where the years and invite them to join us in New Orleans. they went to college? I found one shipmate by con- Planning a really great reunion takes two years tacting his alumni association. I found the father of and toward that end our Board of Directors and your another. Hometowns are another place to look. Try Reunion Committee have been doing some prelimi- www.whitepages.com. Have you tried to google an nary evaluations of potential West Coast sites. At our old shipmate? It works, try me. I was surprised! Did I Norfolk reunion many folks expressed an interest in mention that I left the King in ‘71? It sure is good to holding our next reunion where the King was initially talk to a guy you haven’t seen in 30+ years. built in Seattle. We would like to begin some more If any of you know where a shipmate is, let us formal planning but need your approval to begin. know. If you know where a shipmate lived, went to Please review and submit your desires on the 2005 Re- school or talked about moving to after the Navy, let union survey form below. us know. We can use the information to help our I won't be able to continue to serve as a mem- search.

3 Many of you have heard about the problem of iden- Sheet. Please take a few moments to fill it out, make tity theft. The Board of Directors is aware of it and we your selections and send it into Ray Marshall. Our will safeguard any information we have about you or Membership is not that large that your vote does not anyone you help us locate. Only shipmates who have a count significantly. specific inquiry have access to the contact data we col- Three members of our current Board of Directors lect. It is not available to the public. Members may are seeking re-election to the Board of Directors (Jim “Opt Out” of having their data available to other ship- Sievers, Jack Dineen, and myself) hopefully they mates. If the shipmate you are looking for has chosen need no introduction and what they have done this to “Opt Out” we will contact him and provide your past year speaks for itself. We have four additional data to him. members seeking your vote for the Board positions The last thing we ask is that you keep your data and Alternate Board of Director positions. For those current. If you move or change your phone or email of you that do not know them, we are providing a Re- address let us know. Every mailing we send out gets sume’ of each. returns for bad addresses. If we can’t find you, neither can the buddy you are hoping to locate. The best way Richard Crockett is to fill out a membership application and mark across the top “Change Of Address”. Or you may email me I enlisted in the Navy in March of 1945. Attended at [email protected]. boot camp in in May. Had a couple of set- Dave Nesbitt asked that I add a few words on why I backs due to health and was sitting at Camp TADSEN am not running for election to the Board of Directors. (training and distribution center) on the bench above As things stand now I do not have the time to do a San Diego waiting assignment to an amphibious good job of it. I spend a considerable amount of volun- group when the war ended. Along with several hun- teer time with the Willington Fire Department. Our dred others was put on a troop transport headed for training requirements have increased considerably this Japan. Arriving in Tokyo Bay was transferred to an year, which adds more hours to my commitment. The LST as a passenger and sent to Sasebo. Assigned to a two other hats (Treasurer and Ships Store) I wear for minelayer, USS Robert H. Smith DM-23, the Association also require a considerable amount of going aboard as a deck seaman. I was over the side time. Add to that that my paying job looks like it is chipping and painting when word was passed that vol- going to be a 6-day a week job and I run into an over- unteers were needed in engineering. I told the line ten- load. I thank you for you confidence in electing me to der to hoist me up; I had enough of filthy water hitting an alternate position in Norfolk. However, I do not me in the butt. Returned to the States on this ship as feel that I can give a board position the time it de- MM3 and decommissioned her in July serves this coming year. 1946. Listening to all the OLD SALTS saying get out, Bruce Carlsen, QM3, ’68 – ‘71 I went to active reserves in my hometown of Tucson, AZ. When the Korean situation came along I went regular navy, losing my 3rd class stripe. Was in San Diego again and was assigned to the pre-com crew of Your Vote is Needed the USS Essex CV-9 in Bremerton, Wash. Served Dave Nesbitt, President aboard her for 3 1/2 years and transferred to the USS Boxer CVA-21 ending the 4 years as MM1. Re- The Board of Directors have certain limitations on enlisted and went to FT conversion school in what they can or cannot do for you, as it should be. Wash. D.C. On graduation as FT1 was assigned to the We can not make changes to the Bylaws without 2/3 USS Neifeh DE-352 home ported in San Diego. of the Membership voting in favor of it. We can not Pulled several tours out of Guam doing island surveil- choose the next Reunion Location without a majority lance. Returning to the states in 1956. Pulled a tour of of the Membership voting in favor of it. And although shore duty at Fleet Gun School San Diego making there are provisions in the Bylaws, we do not want to FTC. January 1960 found me at "knife and fork" make the Board of Director decisions for next year. school in Newport R.I. becoming an "officer and gen- We want you to vote your preferences. tleman". Had an interim assignment on a destroyer in On the last page of this Newsletter is a Ballot San Diego, a missile indoctrination school in Pomona,

4 Ca. then pre-com of the USS KING DLG-10 in Brem- Drug Interdiction Operations in the fol- erton, as Fire Control Officer. Left King as LTjg and lowed by a deployment with Standing NATO Forces went to White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. Atlantic in the North Atlantic during the waning years Made LT at that post. Next was 4 years in Hawaii with of the Cold War. COMSERVPAC. I retired from NEMESES, Port Hue- While on KING, Doug earned the Surface Warfare neme, CA. 1 Feb. 1970 with 25 years service. Officer (SWO) qualification. Doug next served as Navigation and Administrative Officer on the Aegis Cruiser USS YORKTOWN (CG-48) participating in George Estock Operation Provide Comfort in support of the Kurds and the "No Fly" Zones in Iraq. While on YORK- Enlisted in the Navy in 1948 as an Airman Appren- TOWN, he navigated the ship through the Turkish tice. In 1958 as a Chief Aviation Electronics Techni- Straits and participated in the first joint US Naval ex- cian was selected for Officer Candidate School, Com- ercises missioned as an Ensign, Unrestricted Line and as- with naval units from former members of the Warsaw signed to USS Fletcher (DDR-870) as CIC Officer. In Pact Bulgaria and Rumania. 1959 transferred to Pre-commissioning detail for USS With the end of the Cold War, Doug journeyed to King (DLG-10) as prospective CIC Officer. Com- eastern Germany in 1992 for the opportunity to live pleted NTDS School in San Diego and devel- and work in a foreign culture recently freed from oped CIC Operating Procedures for NTDS. Com- Communist control and for the opportunity to gain a pleted Computer Programming School and was pro- working knowledge of the German language. While moted to Operations Officer on King. 1963, trans- in Germany, he supported the Production Engineer of ferred to Navy Electronics Lab in San Diego as com- a tile manufacturing plant near Dresden and then pro- puter programmer and system analyst. In 1966, trans- vided technical support for a computer and software ferred to USS Hitchiti (ATF-103) as Commanding Of- services company in Berlin. While living in , ficer. While aboard Hitchiti, promoted to LCDR. In Doug drilled with the Selected Reserve unit of CIN- 1968 transferred to MACV Vietnam as Intelligence CUSNAVEUR ( in Chief, U.S. Naval Collection Officer. Awarded Bronze Star and Joint Forces Europe) in London, UK. Service Commendation Medal. In 1969, transferred to Doug returned to the States in 1994 for graduate Fleet Computer Programming Center, Dam Neck Vir- school earning an MBA with a concentration in Infor- ginia as Project Officer. Worked on various projects, mation Management from the McCombs School of including the AEGIS Program. Retired in July, 1971 Business of the University of Texas at Austin in and went to work for Champion International as 1996. While in Austin, he drilled with a Navy Seal Scheduler. Retired from Champion in 1990. Served as Delivery Vehicle Reserve Detachment. Doug was re- Chairman, Lafayette County Planning Commission cruited by the electric utility company Entergy in New for five years. Served as President, Oxford Exchange Orleans, Louisiana to work for the Information Tech- Club. Deacon , Sunday School Teacher and Sunday nology (IT) organization where he managed the IT School Superintendent, for my Church. Married 54 Help Desk. When Entergy outsourced IT to SAIC years, four children (one deceased). Hobbies, deer (Science Applications hunting, vegetable and flower gardening, and wood International Corporation) in 2000, Doug joined the work. outsourcing company where he currently serves as IT Manager for the Integrated Services Management Doug Schutz Center (ISMC) responsible for business process engi- Doug Schutz was born and raised in the Philadel- neering, phia, Pennsylvania area, graduating from Harriton procurement, audit, metrics, and Service Level Agree- High School of Lower Merion in 1983 where he was ment (SLA) reporting for the Entergy account. voted Most Likely to Succeed. He graduated from the Doug rides in the Mardi Gras Parade "Krewe of U.S. Naval Academy in 1987 with a B.S. in Electrical Tucks", is a member of the USS KING Association, Engineering. serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the New Orleans His first assignment was Missile Systems Officer Chapter of the US Naval Academy Alumni Associa- for USS KING (DDG-41) where he participated in tion, and is Vice President of the Paragon Lofts Con- 5 dominium Association. Doug holds lifetime memberships in PUBLISHER the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, and the Texas Exes Dave Nesbitt Alumni Association. Every five years he organizes the class reunions for his high school classmates. In the Sep- tember issue of the newsletter we published a carton taken Chuck White from the 1965 Cruise Book As the U. S. Marines were landing on Iwo Jima in 1945, I was making and asked if anyone could identify the art- my debut in Santa Barbara, California. Some 18 years later I was on my ist. Don Gischler identified the artist as way to Great Lakes, Illinois. I spent the winter in Great Lakes (19 below Bruce Robbins, who was an RD onboard and no snow) burrrr... In December of 1963 I was off to Yokosuka, Ja- King at the time. pan to catch the USS King. I caught her there and sailed off to a new Embedded in the last issue was a state- way of life. I became a Boilerman or as Steve Cuddihy would put it, a ment that a free King Coffee Mug would be given to the first five members that read Thermo Dynamic Steam Propulsion Engineer. I spent my time aboard the statement and notified the publisher. To the King in both firerooms, the forward fireroom being first. Where I make it fair, there were actually ten free learned what to do and what not to do. The King was my only active coffee mugs available, five for the mem- duty station. bers that received the newsletter via email, and another five for the regular mail deliv- ery. Unfortunately only three shipmates I returned to civilian life in 1967, went back to college and I met my read and notified the publisher, Congratula- wife, Cheryl. We married in 1968 and I went to work with my present tions to Irv Trinkle, Tom McKenny, and employer three months later. I feel blessed to have a spunky wife of Peter Vuchetich. The publisher absorbed thirty-five years, a talented and creative daughter who teaches kindergar- the cost of these cups and Bruce Carlsen ten and a career of thirty-five years at Penfield & Smith Civil Engi- provided the cost of shipping. I apologize that there are not more pic- neers. I enjoy life with some satisfying hobbies: Genealogy, Naval His- tures in this issue. I ran out of pictures that tory (after the Civil War and before WWI), US Navy Match cover col- had been provided by Bruce Carlsen and lecting, and being webmaster for two sites, the USS King and my own Steve Cuddihy. But as you can see there is US Navy Apprentice Boys http://members.cox.net/navalapprentice/ not much space left in this issue for pic- index.html tures. Communications Steve Cuddihy, Director This will be my last letter as Communication Director. This is my third year on the board of directors and the bylaws say you can only be Photo from on the board for three years. I also need a break. I have been with the or- PSNS Achieves ganization since it’s inception and before. As most of you know I started the web site for the USS King back in 1997. I could not find anything about the King and my son said, “Why don’t you start one”, the rest is history. It has been a great ride to help put this great organization to- gether, with the help of Terry Forsyth, Jonathan Kammen, Alan Barnett, Irv Trinkle, Jack Dineen, and Bill Brewer. These gentlemen helped de- velop the original concept and even though it is still in its infancy, we have a great start. With your help we will continue to grow and prosper. Many friendships have been made and old ones rekindled. I hope to have helped bring a lot of joy and good memories to you all. May we continue finding old shipmates and sharing this association and website USS King Christening December 1958 information with them so that we may all continue to enjoy and remem- ber our years on the USS King. 6 Ballot Sheet

Name: ______Date: ______Address: ______City: ______State: ___ Zip: ______

1. Do you approve the Revised Bylaws of 26 January 2004? _____ YES ____ NO

2. Election of Board of Directors

Candidates: ___ Richard Crockett ___ Jack Dineen* ___ George Estock ___ David Nesbitt* ___ Doug Schutz ___ Jim Sievers* ___ Chuck White

*Denotes Incumbent

Please place an X in front of SIX individuals you wish to vote in as Board Members. The six individuals to receive the most votes will be the Board Directors, the seventh in- dividual will be the Alternate Board Member.

3. Please indicate your preferred West Coast Reunion location for 2005: Seattle, WA ______Other ______

Make your selections and submit your ballot to our Nominations Committee Chair Ray Mar- shall via e-mail [email protected] or snail mail 216 S. Nottawa Rd. Mendon, MI 49072 by 15 April 2004. Results of the balloting will be announced at our 2004 Reunion An- nual Membership Meeting.

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