REPORT
OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT
The hot skinny from the operations
Department is.nothing. STRAUCH had
a cmmment of two but due to the restric
tions of higher authority, we’d better
not delve too deeply into them.
Congratulations to DON MERRILL, RM1 &
his wife on the arrival of their new
baby girl. It seems that Chief Hadley1s
big Ford with the ’ 56 V-8 really did
the trick....even though five pistons
sort of appeared through the hood after
the ride over DF road. Chief Hadley
said the car still runs the same on the
three cylinders left.
RHODE, ET3 is losing weight..but in the
wrong places! He’s losing weight in his
arms from arm wrestling with Chief EAT*
ON. Beating RHODE would be no great a
chievement for an ordinary man but for
the Chief1it’s outstanding. Maybe it
would be better if RHODE tried a few
sit-ups....then he could kill1 two birds
with one stone...beat the Chief at sit
ups and lose a little weight where he
needs to lose it the most.
The fellas in Control have lost a friend.
For the past three weeks,there has been
a little furry fella boarding in the
Control Room files. This morning Chief
Hadley was walking through Relay (for
his morning siesta) and the little guy
attacked him...at -least that’s what the
Chief said after he climbed down off the
lights. I swear, these chiefs are be
coming more physically fit every day...
The fabulous BLUE NOTES now have a bit
of competition on the island. Jackie
DIXON and her husband have a new group
which we’re all anxious to hear. Also
a group of Marines have developed a com
bo and will be heard this Sunday at the
COMMSTA snack bar. I have yet to hear
them, but LANNAN, club manager, reports
that they show promise. Of course, I’m
still partial to the iBLUENOTES..having
l/4 interest in all their activities.
You don’t know who the BLUE NOTES are?
Well, there’s TEX BARKER on Gitfiddle,
Alohonse HARRIS on the big bad Bass,
DODO BURIAN on skins and not much on
SAX (Continued next column)
CHERNOBIEF, ML, is here to square a
way the Message Center* He arrived
last week.
That’s it for Operations this week.
■"TILL-DEN”
OFFICER’S & CHIEF1S LUNCHEON_
The Officer's and CPO Luncheon, held
the first Thursday of each month, has
proven to be a successful medium of in
formation exchange. As.was pointed out
by CDR. SOCHA at the initial meeting,
information and ideas must be fed
from the bottom up as well as from the
top down. The CPO’s of Radio City wel
come this opportunity to keep posted on
command policies and also the chance to
air their own views from time to time..
One important point brought out at this
month1s meeting had to do with LDO ap
plications. LTJG LOZANO pointed out
that 15 April is the deadline for com
pletion al all applications. Everything
must be completed..interviews, physical,
pictures, etc. One of the requirements
for. LDO application is a very complete
personal history. This includes date/
place of birth of . many relatives. Any
college credits must be substantiated
if they are to be considered. All these
details take time and the personal hist-1
ory is usually the hardest and last
thing to be completed. Anyone consider
ing going up for LDO this time should
start NOW to get this information gath
ered together. For further information
as to requirements, contact your I & E
office.
CART. GREELEY gave a brief run-down on
the C.O. NAVSTA conference held earlier
the same day. The weather forecast will
not be revealed in this column.
MOFFETT HIGHLIGHTS
New arrival at MOFFETT this week is
MCQUIRE, J.G., SK3, USNR. Prior to ar
rival at Adak, McQuire was stationed at
the Naval Reserve Unit, Great Falls ,
Montana, (continued next column)