Frank BRANCATO, ENC, recently departed
NAVCOMMSTA Chief in charge of the gar
age, wrote that he had a little trouble
going across country in his car. Seems
that all the rods in his car decided to
part company with the crank shaft.
Guess Frank must have been so busy try
ing to keep COMMSTA’ s clunkers going
that he didn’t have time to "PM” his
own. Chief Brancato did a fine job dur
his tour here and we were sorry to hear
of his bad luck. Hope he has better
luck with his new Rambles.
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FUTURE_SCIENTISTS?? _
Congratulations are extended to- the
following personnel who, have been pro- ,
visionally selected for the Navy En
listed Scientific Education Program,
(NESEP), by .the Chief of Naval Person
nel;
ARBOGAST, John E., CT3
NELSON, Robert'M., Jr., CTSN
RAGLAND, Allen W., . CT.t
Of a total of six applicants from NAV- *
COMMSTA, three were selected for the
program. This is batting .500 and it
speaks highly of the caliber of per
sonnel attached to .NAVCOMMSTA.
Transfer orders will be issued to the
successful Candidates directing them
to report to the Naval Preparatory
School, Bainbridge, Md., or.to the Ser
vice School Command, San Diego, Calif.,
in June for approximately nine weeks of
temporary, duty under instruction.
Again, congratulations to these fine
men and this should be very encourag
ing news to fellow COMMSTA personnel
who are planning to apply for this
program.
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NEW SHERIFF....
’’IRISH", CS1, (his real name is imposs
ible to spell and sounds something like
’too much skivvies’) has a new job. He
is now filling the newly created bil
let of Mess Deck Master-at-Arms. Irish
says he’11 really have the place shin
ing for the up-coming NEY awards com
petition.
NEW CHIEF PETTY OFFICERS^ANNOUNCED_
Congratulations to the following new CPOs
from NAVCOMMSTA!!!
RUFF, J.E., BUI - •
CURTIS, R.V. EOij.
CHASTAIN, E-.F-.,- SMI
VOIGHT, E.G., EN1
This news was received just before press
time so we don't, have time: to give any
background information on .the selectees.
More on them in next woeks column* . Y. .■
TVffiLVE_HUNBRED_GOOD REASONS,
DUANE 0. BAUMERT, CT1,USN attached to
NAVCOMMSTA, Adak‘, was sworn in for four
years by Capt, GREELY, USN, Commanding
Officer, on 28 March 1962,
This is Baumert’s second reenlistment &
will entitle him to a check for about
$1,200,00, Duane is the husband' of Eula
Quonette Buamert, who resides at quart
ers E-10Q. They have three children;
Duane Jr,, age 5; Susan, age 2; and Kea
ton, 3 day old at this writing,
A native of Keota, Iowa, D.uphd enlisted
in the Navy on 27 March 19,52 and report=
ed aboard this command for duty on 10
August I960, _‘
Duane has orders to report to Instructor
School at Norfolk, Virginia," for a course
of instruction and upon graduation, to
be assigned in ah instructor* s billet at
CT "A" School, Pensacola, Fla, Duane
will leave Adak about 27 June for his
next assignment, ' . , '