*All HANOS+ 1 THE BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL CAREER PUBLICATION L A Y3 A b. I 19 68 Nav-Pers-0 NUMBER 620 NUMBER SEPTEMBERNav-Pers-0 1968 VICEADMIRAL CHARLES K . DUNCAN. USN 411 HANDS TheBureau of Nav- TheChief of Naval Personnel 01 Personnel Career SFZj REAR ADMIRAL M . F. WEISNER. USN Publication.is published monthly by the Ej Bureau of NavalPersonnel for the infor- E.".# TheDeputy Chief of Naval Personnel CAPTAIN H . W . HALL. JR., USN AssistantChief for Morale Services TABLE OF CONTENTS Features Launch from Cleveland: 'Crews-Man Your Craft' ................................ 2 So Long. Spad-Piped Ashore. Out on Twenty .................................... 4 Lab in the Sea-A NewScientific Station Coming Up ........................ 7 AngelDriver: The Helicopter Pilot ........................................................ 8 'Light Water' Passes Tough Test ............................................................ 9 How to Become a Salvage Expert ........................................................ 11 FleetTraining Tank ................................................................................ 12 Desert Tank Corps .................................................................................. 13 The PRs: They Pack Their Chute and Jump With It ................................ 14 It's a Cool Experience: The Ice Barrier Patrol ...................................... 16 The Fine Art of Building a Yabuta Junk ................................................ 18 Visit to Trieste Grave Recalls a Note from History ................................ 20 Seabees Work with Korean Marines in Vietnam .................................... 29 Departments Letters to the Editor ................................................................................ 23 Servicescope: News of Other Services .................................................. 30 Today's Navy .......................................................................................... 32 The Word ................................................................................................ 41 Decorations and Citations: Heroes and Leaders .................................... 54 TheBulletin Board That Deadline for NESEP Is Rapidly Approaching ................................ 42 Three States Offer Bonus to Vietnam Veterans .................................... 46 Rotation Time for a New Group: Seavey Segment C-68 .................... 48 Answering the Call of the. Antarctic? Better Hurry ................................ 50 Must Reading Only for Navy's Top Crews: E Awards ............................ 52 SpecialSupplement TheNaval Air Systems Command ........................................................ 58 TaffrailTalk ............................................................................................ 64 John A . Oudine. Editor Associate Editors G . Vern Blasdell. News Don Addor. Layout & Art AnnHanabury. Research GeraldWolff. Reserve 0 AT LEFT: SHIPSHAPING UP-lower bow section ofammunition ship USS Butte (AE 27) islowered into placeby 'rhipyard riggers at Quincy. Mass . The new AE waslaunched thissummer and is slated for commissioning in January 1969. 0 CREDIT: Allphotographs published inALL HANDS Magazine are official Department ofDefense photos unless otherwise designated . MOTHER TO MANY-USS Cleveland (LPD 7) has capability to launch waves of amphibious craft from her well deck. (amtracks), spitting themout of her feet of water to launch the smallerLyons has two helpers in the con- welldeck like so many watermelon boats. Fiveand one-half feet is trol room. He uses them as telephone seeds. enough to launchthe larger utility headset operators, one with a direct Making a full 20 knots andrun- landing craft andamtracks.” circuit to the ship’s bridge, and the ning parallel to the beach, Cleveland Lyons is the petty officer in charge other a direct circuit to the well deck hurls theamtracks into the sea at of the Ballast Control Room, the crew. spaced intervals. Already lined up in nerve center for all ballasting opera- “With two phone talkers on differ- the boat lane, the vehicles make their tions. From there, the25-year old ent circuits,” he remarked, “we have turnon signal andhead for the sailor controls each evolution, operat- constant communications with both beach.Once ashore the embarked ing a control console that stands 10 places and don’t have to worry about Marines will begin ground operations feet high and 15 feet wide. a busy signal.” against enemypositions. Buttons operate the sea-ballast, air As soon as Cleveland’s Marines are “When those amtracks crossover blow, andvent valves. Indicator ashore, shebegins to launch utility the sill, it’s like being catapulted from lights show the position of the valves, and mechanized landing craft filled an aircraft carrier,” remarked one andwhat motors and aircompres- with ammunition, jeeps, trucks, tanks, embarked Marine. “Once theyhit the sors are running. A draft gauge sys- and other support equipment. ship’s wake they just take off flying.” tem provides a continuous indication When the operation is completed, of the ship’s draft from bow to stern, she willreload everythingshe has ECAUSE THE SHIP has reduced aswell as thedepth of thewater launched and make her way to the maneuverability while ballasted in the well deck. next rendezvous, where shewill have down, it is importantthat she get VI’hen the time comes to deballast, anotheropportunity to takeher down, launch her craft, and recover Lyonspresses various buttons, and down.-Dick Benjamin, JOC, USN. her stern as fast aspossible. Forty- vent valves close as air-blow and sea- was also the A-1 that flew cover for the United Nations forces that evac- uated Hungnam in the early months READY TO GO-Assistant catapult officerwaits hookup of A-l Skyraider. of the conflict. In all, Skyraiders Below: Pilot mans his plane while readying for mission over the Tonkin Gulf. madethree Korean cruises aboard Boxer and the carrier Philippine Sea (CV 47). Ten yearspassed, yet the A-1’s usefulness continuedto grow as South Vietnamese pilots were trained to fly them. Soon afterward, Skyraiders flown byNavy pilots joined the fight in SoutheastAsia, striking communist supplydepots and troopconcentra- tions inthe south. They also went to the forefront when air strikes were orderedon North Vietnam. It was then, however, the image of the Skyraider Spad began tofade. Inthe decade that had passed since Korea, communist air defenses had made some substantial advance- ments. The plane’s slow speed made it toovulnerable a target. FOR A TIME, the Skyraider held her own in the southern panhandle of South Vietnam, hitting supply depots and bombingmaterial moved by boat, rail and highway to Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops fight- ing south of the DMZ. Her days of combat flying for the Navy,however, were numbered. CommanderC. E. Church, Com- SEPTEMBER 1968 LAB IN THE SEA Y THE 1970s, teams of scientists may be working a mile beneath the ocean surface for 30-day periods in fully equipped oceanographic lab- oratories. The scientists’ ocean laboratories willbe called mannedunderwater stations. A “conceptual contract” for the development of such a station hasbeen awarded by the U.S. NavalCivil Engineering Laboratory (NCEL). As conceived under this contract, the scientific station will provide a shirt-sleeve environment for five scientists at depths to 6000 feet in the open ocean. It will be an operating platformfrom which sci- entists canaccomplish useful work on the bottom and in the water col- umn. The station will be composed of two vertical cylinders resulting in a vehicle 42 feet long, 48 feet high and 30 feet wide. One of the cylin- ders will house a power plant, using anumbilical cable to the shoreor surface. The scientists will live and workin the other cylinder. Labora- tory space will be provided on two engineeringoperations decks, and a third deck will be used withocean exploitation. for berthingand living quarters. A ple, thedeep submerge fourth deck is provided for station vehiclebeing developed operation and control. for submarine rescueoperations can ing satellites is being considered. From the station, scientists will be able to observe undersea environ- ments either directly through view- ports or indirectly byclosed circuit TV. They will beable to collect sampleswith a manipulator and bringthem into the station’s pres- sure envelope through a lock-in/lock- out system. A small drone is en- visioned for extendedobservation. In use, the station will be posi- tively buoyant and tethered from an anchor. All equipmentthat could become entangled will be jettison- able. Additional droppable ballast alsois incorporated in the design. A connecting spherebetween the two hulls willprovide an escape trunk feature similar to that used onmodern submarines. Emergency life support and power will be avail- able. The manned underwater station project is tied inwith other ocean SEPTEMBER I968 GROUNDED-Crewmenon beached LCM pump waterfrom the WW II landingcraft during salvage exercises. How fo Become a Salvage Expert EFORE. DEPLOYING to WestPac, made of sturdy concrete, her metal hold. It is only a procedural test, as Service Forcetugs and salvage fixtures are completely rusted the hulk is considered an immovable ships must undergo rugged, realistic through. object when being pulled on by only salvage training. The student ship hooks up to the one ship at a time. It begins at Pearl Harbor’s Middle hulk with a tow wire and then pulls ServPac tugs demonstratecontinu- Loch. Then comes anoperation