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THE BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL CAREER PUBLICATION

Keith M. Tracy,

HMCS (SS), B.S., M.S., P h.D., USN

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NOVEMBER 1968 Nav-Pers-0 NUMBER 622

VIC E ADMIRAL C H ARLE S K. D U N C A N , USN The Chief of Naval Personnel

R E A R ADMIRAL M. F. WEISNER, USN The Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel

C A P T A I N H. W. HALL, JR., USN Assistant Chief for Morale Services

TABLE OF CONTENTS Features

USS Friendship Underway in Vietnam: Operation Positive Approach

Swiff Takeover-Boat Transfers to Vietnamese Navy .......................... Navy's Flying Lab: Airborne Scientists on the Job ............................ Mobile Base II: A Prefab Home on the River ........................................ Award-Winning Units: Champions With Good Taste ............................

Sailors in Green Uniforms: Tops in Efficiency ......................................

Drums of Steel and Music by the Barrel ................................................ Navy Sports: It's Been a Good Year .................................................... The Battenberg Cup: A Famous Trophy on View Again ........................

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Departments

Letters to the Editor ................................................................................ 30

Heroes and Leaders: Decorations and Citations .................................. 58 Today's Navy ........................................................................................ 38

Bufletin Board

Thirty Thousand Reservists: Early Release from AcDu .......................... Eligibility of NESEP Students for VRB .................................................. Reprint Copies of ALL HANDS "Education Issue" Available ................ Revision in Pro Pay Awards ................................................................ ADCOP Offers Junior College Opportunity ........................................ Dollar Limitation to Be Placed on Tuition Aid .................................... New Insignia for EOD Personnel .......................................................... Time to Say Sayonara Again-Yokosuka Beckons ............................ Round-Trip Travel Expenses Paid While on Sick Leave ........................

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Ta f f ra i l Ta lk ........................................................................................... 64

John A. Oudine, Editor

Associate Editors G. Vern Blasdell, News

Don Addor, Layout & Art Ann Hanabury, Research

Gerald Wolff, Reserve

0 FRONT COVER: PLOT A T SEA-While seated at the charting table Rudarman 2nd Class Leon S. Thomas, USN, plots course. The Navy radarmon solves problems of course and speed and fin& closest point o f approach o f radar contacts.

0 AT LEFT: DOCTOR, CHIEF-Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Keith M. Tracy, USN, receives h i s P h D degree during ceremonies at the Un ivers i ty o f U tah. See story on page 46.

CREDIT: All photographs published in ALL HANDS Magazine are official Department of Defense photos unless otherwise designated.

“In the past five months,” Le said, “the Vietnamese Navy has experi- enced a tremendous growth-not just in numbers, but more importantly, in efficiency and capability.”

Waves who wear identification badges will center them above the left coat pocket flap or in a corre- sponding position on uniforms which do not have pockets.

A qualification breast insignia may be awarded to Navy men desig- nated and qualified in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD). The in- signia is identical to the one worn by Army, Air Force and Marine Corps EOD personnel. Enlisted men should dispose of their EOD shoul- der sleeve distinguishing marks when they adopt the new breast insignia.

An undershirt with a V-neck in- stead of an elliptical collar is ap- proved for wear with white and khaki tropical shirts, and is prescrib- ed for officers and chief petty offi- cers. When the V-neck undershirt is worn, it should not show above the V in the tropical shirt.

A specialty mark has been ap- proved for the new Aviation Anti- submarine Warfare Operator ( AW) rating. Until rating badges are avail- able through regular supply chan- nels (approximately 1 Jan 1969), AW personnel may wear the special- ty marks of their previous ratings, or acquire AW badges through com- mercial outlets.

List of New Motion Pictures Available to Ships and Overseas Bases

The list of recently released 16- mm feature movies available from the Navy Motion Picture Service is published here for ships and over- seas bases.

Movies in color are designated by ( C ) and those in wide-screen proc- esses by (WS).

Dark of the Sun (WS) (C) : Melodrama; Rod Taylor, Yvette Mi- mieux.

The Shakiest Gun in the West (WS) ( C ) : Comedy Western; Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades.

Berserk ( C ) : Mystery Drama; Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin.

Panic: Drama; Janine Gray, Glyn Houston.

What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? (WS) (C) : Comedy; George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore.

Half a Sixpence (WS) (C) : Mu- sical; Tommy Steele, Julia Foster.

Kona Coast ( C ) : Melodrama; Richard Boone, Vera Miles.

The Wild Racers ( C ) : Drama; Fabian, Mimsy Farmer.

Blue (WS) (C) : Drama; Terence Stamp, Joanna Pettet.

Project X ( C ) : Science Fiction; Christopher George, Greta Baldwin.

The Shuttered Room ( C ) : Drama; Gig Young, Carol Lynley.

The Sweet Ride (WS) (C) : Dra- ma; Tony Franciosa, Michael Sarra- zin.

Don’t Just Stand There (WS) ( C ) : Comedy; Robert Wagner, Mary Tyler Moore.

The Pink Jungle (WS) (C) : Ad- venture Drama; James Garner, Eva Renzi.

Blackbeard’s Ghost ( C ) : Comedy; Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones.

The Counterfeit Killer ( C ) : Dra- ma; Jack Lord, Shirley Knight.

Rise in Uniform Prices Prices of officer and chief petty

officer uniforms and accessories were expected to increase by 10 per cent, effective as of 15 October, according to the Naval Uniform Shop in Brook- lyn.

The raise in prices, which also af- fects personnel of the U. S. Coast Guard and Public Health Service, is attributed to an increase in man- ufacturing costs.

Orders received by the Brooklyn ship postmarked after 15 October will have their invoices based on the new price list.

Copies of the revised price list may be obtained from either local naval uniform shop representatives or by writing to: Manager, Naval Uniform Shop, 29th Street and 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232.

I New Insignia for EODmen I Navymen involved in the ticklish

job of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) may now wear a breast in- signia to identify them as members of this select group.

The Chief of Naval Operations has approved, for both officer and en- listed EODmen, the wearing of the insignia now worn by the bomb dis- posal men of the other services.

Officers will wear the basic in- signia (shown below) with a 3/16- inch silver star attached, while en- listed men will wear the basic in- signia only. The new insignia re- places the enlisted EOD sleeve patch.

Officer EOD breast insignia

Enlisted €OD breast insignia

Two More Barracks Ships The Navy Mobile Riverine Force

in the Mekong Delta has increased its mobility by adding two barracks ships to its roster.

They are uss Nueces (APB 39) and Mercer (APB 40) which ar- rived at Vung Tau in August after a month-long crossing.

Designed to berth and mess 600 troops and 400 Navymen, including gunboat crewmen, Nueces and Mer- cer join two sister ships, Benewah (APB 35) and Colleton (APB 36) , which have been operating with the MRF in the Delta since April 1967.

Both newcomers are fully air- conditioned and provide comforts infantrymen rarely expect to find in the steaming Vietnam jungles. Be- sides eating and living spaces, each ship has a large laundry, a .soda fountain, a well-stocked ship’s store and movie projectors for nightly flicks. They are also equipped with helicopter decks and 35-bed surgical hospitals.

The troops and boat crewmen who live aboard the ships spend most of their time ashore tracking down Viet Cong guerrillas. In a typical operation, the infantrymen are carried into a battle zone on board Navy armored troop carriers ( ATCs) , 56-foot amphibious land- ing craft.

Arrival of Nueces and Mercer in- creased to 10 the number of ships in River Assault Flotilla One, the naval component of the force.

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