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THEBUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL CAREER PUBLICATION .I SEPTEMBER, 1966 Nav-Pers-0 NUMBER 596 VICE ADMIRAL BENEDICT J. SEMMES, Jr., USN The Chief of Naval Personnel REARADMIRAL BERNARD M. STREAN, USN The Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel CAPTAINJAMES G. ANDREWS, USN Assistant Chief for Morale Services TABLE OF CONTENTS Features At Home in Hydrospace .................................. 2 DeepSubmergence Vessels on the Way .... ............... 4 Flip and Spar: Bottoms Up! ..... ........................ 6 Toda y-It’s Booming UNREP Today-It’s .............................. 8 Naval Support Facility,Chu Lai: Small ButBusy ..............12 Close-Up: Vietnam Report ............................ 14 Time Off inManila .................................. 17 Neptune Surveys the Situation .... ..................... 18 Ney Awards: Add a Dash of Salt ........................ 20 Departments Letters to the Editor ................................... 24 Today’s Navy ..... ............................ 28 BookReviews ............................................ 34 Decorations and Citations ............................ 62 BulletinBoard AbsenteeBallots Mean Voting Booths in EveryShip ................ 36 Changes in Travel Regs ....................................... 37 NROTCExams Again Offer Chance for Commission ............... 38 Here‘s a Deal That Could Make You a STAR ..................40 Banana Belt in Alaska? Go North for Interesting Tour .............. 42 ‘ Wlp’s Heading for Shore in Seavey.C-66? .................46 Directives in Brief .................... :. ............... 48 SpecialSupplement MissionAccomplished: TaskForce Sixty-Five .................... 50 TaffrailTalk ............................................ 64 John A. Oudine, Editor Associate Editors G. VernBlasdell, News DonAddor, Layout & Art AnnHanabury, Research Gerald Wolff, Reserve ~ ~~ 0 FRONTCOVER: MAKING LIKE A FISH-Students at Navy’s diving school, SubicBay, Philippines, swim a fewfeet below the surface of thewater while receiving instructions in the use of Scuba diving gear.-Photoby William M. Powers, PH1, USN. 0 AT LEFT: SUNSET AT SEA-Crewmember of guidedmissile cruiser USS Providence (CLG 6) watches thesetting sun and task force teammember during operations at sea.-Photo by Jerry Young, PHI, USN. 0 CREDIT: All photographs published inALL HANDS Magazineare official Department of Defense photos unless otherwise designated. ing. These same advancements have IN project extend ability to work below at greater depths MAN THE SEA will made deep water operations an ele- for longer periods of time. Here an aquanaut works during Project Sealab II. mentto be considered in national security. HE BOTTOM is a long way down. space.They arethe mechanically Until recently, for example,sub- T Dark,with crushing pressures sophisticated descendants of Trieste, marine collapse depthswere rela- and occasional examples of evolu- which was purchased and brought tively shallow. With recent advances, tionary dead ends. It’s called hydro- to this country by the Office of however,the limits of modernsub- space. It is that portion of the ocean NavalResearch as part of its early marines have been constantly push- which lies beyondthe 150-fathom pioneering efforts toincrease man’s ed downward. As a result, sub- limit. Buildingthe equipment to knowledge of thedeep ocean en- marine rescue capabilities must also conquer it is the purview of the vironment. beincreased. oceanographicengineer, an entirely In 1960,there were only four The sinking of the submarine uss new breed. Thresher (SSN 593) 10 Apr 1963 in , The oceanographicengineer may 8400 feet of water was the event hold ‘ his degreein oceanography, TheUnderseas Challenge whichled to greater intensity in but more likely it will be in en- Navy Secretary Paul H. Nitze has underwater engineering. Attempts at gineering,chemistry, geology,biol- restated that ocean explorationand search and recovery were hampered ogy or physics. He is concerned exploitation offers challengea as by weather problems and lack of a with the’ deep ocean as anarea of great as that posed by current ex- , deepwater vehicle which was ac- accomplishment,not of purestudy ploration of outerspace. tually capable of working in extreme and observation.His jobis deep- He said this will ultimately require depths. watersalvage, rescue, maintenance, a national effort and expenditure on Afew months after Thresher’s perhapsconstruction. acomparable scale. loss, a group of Navy scientists and .Hisfield is representedby the Citing past undersea programsand engineers met to study the situation DSV, the deep submergence vehicle. achievements as “dramatic,” he said andrecommend navala deep-sea These craft, such as Alvin, arethe the Navywill requireimproved engineering development program. deep-sea equivalent of an astronaut’s capabilities in its undersea strategic In June of 1964 the Special Proj- spacecapsule. Far below the hard- forces, antisubmarine warfare forces, ects Officewas named to carry out hat diving limit, theykeep the andundersea search and recovery. the advisory group’s recommenda- aquanaut. alive and,by means of These improvements, he said, de- tions and, as a result, the Deep Sub- mechanicalarms, enable him to do pend largely on the national ability mergenceSystems Project wases- usefulwork. Alvin, sponsoredand to discover and exploit newocean tablished. Thechoice was a logical funded by the Office of Naval Re- scienceknowledge, and successin one. The Special Projects office had search andoperated under contract developingnew and relevant ocean originally beenestablished to de- by the WoodsHole Oceanographic technology. velop the Polaris weaponssystem. Institution, is the first of a family SecretaryNitze said “wemust Oceanographicengineering was to of deep oceanographicresearch make certain” the United States, be a priority project. submarines planned by the Office of throughboth public and private Thedeep submergenceprogram NavalResearch. These research enterprise, leads the world in work- hadfour objectives. First of these vehicles will providedramatic new ing towardunderstanding and con- was to devise the nieansto rescue tools for the exploration of inner trolling theocean depths. men from submarinesfrom any depth 2 ALL HANDS in which there existed a possibility was recognized that it mightbe or recharged in a short time so that of survivors. Second was the devel- many years -hopefully never -be- the vehicle, withcrew and power opment of a vehicleto investigate fore a similar incident might occur. replenished, could promptly resume the ocean’s bottom,locate objects Therefore, they set about designing its job. and retrieve objects of relatively a vehicle which would be used as a In addition, there must be enough small size. Third, a different vehicle research and salvage vessel, but room to rescue at least a dozen sub- wasto be developed,along with witha submarine rescue capability. mariners on each trip, a requirement methods of recovering large objects, whichcompounds the problem of includingintact hulls as large as T HE CONCEPT presented problems. the pressure hull. And reliability 1000 tons. Thefourth, titled the The combination rescue, en- must be absolute. Man in the Sea project, wasto ex- gineering and salvage vehicle would On 14 April, thedesigns were tend man’s ability to work in the sea have to be capable of operating on finished. The Navy now has a proto- at greater depths for longer periods. the continental shelf andthe slope type of the combinationvehicle on Although the Thresher tragedy beyond. It wouldneed a minimum order. was the incidentwhich prompted endurance of 14 to 16 hours,per- The first, of a planned fleet of six the Navy to establish a specific pro- mitting eight hoursof effective work, vehicles, is scheduled for delivery in gram for the development and pro- four hours of reserve, and the rest 1968, and will becapable of sub- curement of the hardware necessary for transit. Apower supply was merging to 3000 feet to clamp onto to do useful work at great depths, it neededwhich could be exchanged theescape hatch of a sunkensub- DEEP DIVER-Artist‘s conception showssmall sub exploring ocean bottom with mechanical arm to retrieve obiects. UNREP Today-If’s, THE DESTROYER swungaway from to1000-pound bombs with equal hergunfire support station off ease and in minimum time. Where the coast of Vietnam. Her ammuni- threereplenishments were formerly tion expended,she headed for the necessary, Sacramento dishes out the Philippines to reload. same in one short replenishment. Fiction?Obviously, since under- She’s fast, too. With a sustained wayreplenishment is the way it’s speed of 26 knots, she can keep up done these days, and has been since with a carrier task force, operating well before World War 11. as an integral part, or steaming close It’s nothing new for our Fleet to by, waiting for the word to come operate for months at a time nearly running with the rations. a thousand milesfrom the closest Sacramento has already made an naval base. But, like most areas of impressiononthe ships of the navaloperations, the replenishment SeventhFleet. Since her arrival in of our ships at seahas changed a WestPac, she has been averaging 100 good bit since the old days. replenishmentsper month, on a The ships -being built to handle round-the-clock basis, to all types of the logistics loadare certainly dif- ships, fromthenuclear-powered ferent.In fact, they reflect a com- carrier to the smallestboats patrol- pleteturnabout in replenishment ling the Vietnam coast. During one concepts.Previously,