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Here are 2 sets of Shore Patrol Orders while visiting Barcelona, Spain and Marseille, France. I can remember the Marseille experience, we had to be accompanied by a local policeman because of the language difference and our unfamiliarity with the city . He didn’t speak English nor I French. But it worked out, we both survived and at the end of the shift he bought me a few drinks. I don’t remember the Barcelona assignment, at all.
After returning to Newport, Rhode Island aboard USS Calcaterra, I submitted a second Request for Transfer to USS Thomas J. Gary. I already had orders to the USS Willis A. Lee DL-4, but had not yet reported to the Lee. Someone suggested that I walk over to the Atlantic Fleet Personnel office in Newport, and speak with a Chief Warrant Officer, whose name is long forgotten. He told me to submit another Request for Transfer and there would be a good possibility the orders would be rewritten. Above are scans of the second Request, and the Naval Message directing me to USS Thomas J. Gary vice WA Lee.
Here are 2 other documents pertaining to my transfer to USS Thomas J. Gary. One is a letter written to Fleet Personnel by the Calcaterra’s XO that indicated that I was interested in a transfer to USS Mills or USS Thomas J. Gary. I recall putting in for a transfer in April, 1966. The other document is my actual orders to USS Thomas J. Gary.
