THE SCUTTLEBUTT
The Newsletter of the
USS Buchanan DDG-14 Association
June 28, 2003
Vol.
V, No. 2 http://www.uss-buchanan-ddg14.org Editor:
David B. Malone
Our
next Ship wide reunion is scheduled for February 18 –22, 2004 At the Beachside
Resort & Convention Center, Pensacola Beach, Florida. All crew members,
families and persons who have the common interest of the USS Buchanan - DDG
14 are welcome.
Room
costs:
$70.00
per night two persons
$89.00 per night beach front rooms two persons
These
room rates are available 3 days before and after the reunion for those members
wishing to stay longer or arrive early
Schedule
February 18, 2004 (Wednesday) Travel arrive after 3:00pm
February 19, 2004 (Thursday) Historic Highlights and Naval Air
Station Tour Aprox. $38.00 per person.
February 20, 2004 (Friday)
Battleship Memorial Park and USS Alabama Aprox. $45.00 per person.
February 21, 2004 (Saturday) Morning
will be the membership meeting followed by an evening Banquet Dinner. The cost for registration and banquet dinner
will be $55.00 per person or $80.00 per couple.
February 22, 2004 (Sunday) Travel
depart 12:00pm
For
more information on 2004 plans, http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tbnightingale/Reunion/index.htm
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TREASURY REPORT
Balance
5 March 2003 $2,696.10
Dues 84.00
Ship
store sales 147.05
Ship
store expenses - 20.40
Balance
31 May 2003 $2,906.75
NEW
MEMBERS SINCE MARCH 2003 (4)
Roger
Ginter FC2 1985 - 89
Tim
Heisler QM3 1972 - 75
Richard
Hoermann E5 1966 - 68
Tom
Yow BM3 1962 - 63
PAID
MEMBERS (47)
Ansell,
John; Bartleson, Don; Bass, Jack; Bergum, Dave; Borg, Gene; Boston, Richard;
Botti, Bill; Bowers, Steve; Browning, Rob & Marian; Casmier, Dave; Congdon,
Bob; Daisley, Dick; Falade, Mark; Falkenhan, Marc; Giardina, Joe; Gilbert, Joe;
Ginter, Roger; Glidewell, Mel; Heisler, Tim; Herrman, Larry; Hoermann, Richard;
Howard, John; King, Mike; Looney, Glenn; Malone, Dave; Manis, Frank; Mezori,
George; Myers, Dean; Nepper, Jerry; Norrod, Mike; Parks, Bill; Pinkney, Robert;
Poplin, Dave; Repp, John; Ridlon, Lawrence; Sample, Eric; Schiefelbine, Ron;
Scott, Walter; Sena, Pat; Shortreed, Fred; Ursich, Al; Vermillion, Charles;
Waltrip, Jim; Wihera, Victor; Yow, Tom; Zimmermann, Dick
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PRINTS OF NAVY SHIPS
Dick
Zimmermann reports on a place which makes prints of ships that you can frame. I
got one for each of my ships, and I'm very happy with them. The site that
offers them is: http://hometown.aol.com/woodblox/myhomepage/index.htm.
Each
print is about $35-40 including shipping, depending on what features
you want. If you don't want to spring for a costly upscale framing job, it
would help if you have access to a discount framing store (I found one in
Arlington, VA, that charges $45 per print for frame, mat, and glass). If
you can't find a shop like that, you can get a relatively inexpensive
10-inch by 20-inch frame at a department store for about $20. But you still
have to get a custom-cut mat from someone who knows what he's doing, to fit
the print and the frame.
The seller says rather than framing them, you can just trim them so about a
half-inch of white border shows all around, and then mount them on
'styrofoam boards.'
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NOW ON THE BUCHANAN...
Taken
from the ship’s annual reports.
Thirty Five years ago...
On
7 June BUCHANAN departed the line for Subic Bay for repairs of her
previous Battle Damage. BUCHANAN remained in Subic Bay until 17 June
when she again departed for duty with SEA DRAGON forces where she provided
naval gunfire from 19 June until 20 June.
Thirty years ago...
During
the first week in June, BUCHANAN was visited by Inspector General, U.S. Pacific
Fleet who conducted an extensive review of the ship's material condition,
training and readiness programs and administrative affairs. On 22 June 1973, Lieutenant Commander James
G. Roache, USN assumed command of BUCHANAN.
Twenty Five years ago...
BUCHANAN
left Seattle on 30 May enroute to San Diego with MTT again embarked while
conducting Phase II Training. For five days ECC drills were conducted on all
watch sections and observed by the MTT. At the end of this period of intensive
training the decision was taken, based on MTT recommendation to postpone the
OPPE for two weeks in order to allow for further ECC training. As a result,
BUCHANAN returned to San Diego on 03 June with the OPPE rescheduled for 12 July.
Twenty years ago..
June
3, 1983, found BUCHANAN anchoring in Okinawa harbor for a change of command.
Commander Stephen H. Jones relieved Captain Mays as Commanding Officer.
Commander Jones reported from USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) where he had been
Commissioning Engineer. A Naval Academy graduate, his previous duties included
service aboard USS ZELLARS (DD-777), USS; HAWKINS (DD--873), USS ENTERPRISE
(OIN-65) and USS MISSISSIPPI (CGN-40) and a tour of duty in Vietnam as
Commanding Officer of a division of river patrol boats.
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SEA STORY OF THE QUARTER
This
one was contributed by Larry Webster, the son of Buchanan’s first CO. Some recollections of his youth at sea aboard
his father’s ship.
I've
walked the length of the ship...........from the bottom. She was up on supports
in Bremerton before she got her first taste of salt water. It's interesting
(and unforgetable) to be under all of that steel!
I
sailed on her out of San Diego for exercises around Baja. We "sunk"
our opponent submarine at a range of what must have been 10 miles with her
ASROC. Ever since I've said that any submariner who tries to take on a properly
armed surface ship had to be crazy. We hit him over and over and he never got
close enough to get off a shot.
On one cruise, I was served bunless hotdogs in the Officer's
Mess. The ship was rolling so hard that I couldn't catch the damn things with
my fork!
I don't remember the occasion, but Dad shot a Talos nearly (as
it turns out, probably) vertically, He was up on the Bridge (outside) watching
as it burned out. By-and-bye, he yelled "Flank speed!" The spent
rocket fell about 100 yards off the stern.............Hum.???