"O" Division

Once upon a time, in a roof garden high atop a mountain
in the land of Porterania, there dwelled a race of super-man
known as gunners mates.
    Really, they were a peaceful lot, but by the nature of of their
occupation...death and destruction..they became a power to be
reckoned with.
    Down below, lesser minions of this small community marveled
as these men from above manipulated secret wheels and
pushed secret buttons and waved their weapons in a threatening
manner, but

Nothing was more fearful than those gunner's mate' "most supreme", a rather friendly person to be sure, named Wardrovich, who had the strange habit of sounding alarms many times a day
and at the strangest hours, (This alarm, by the way, was adopted from Sanskirt, was called by them Gee Cue.)
   And in addition, he picked poor hours to bring aboard ammunition.
   Naturally, lots of people didn't like these carryings on,
in fact, the gunner's mate bitched as much as anyone else, but that is neither here nor there.
   Counting from left to right they were twenty eight in number, and their job was to keep the guns and magazines in top-top-shape, which they did most of the time, except
   Every now and then, it rained, and then they turned fore and aft, elevation "0"

Standing Left to Right
Raymond C. Smith GM2c, [?], I.D. Henry GM1c,
William C. Webb GM2c, Harold W. Johnson CGM.
Kneeling Left to Right
Robert S. Mack GM2c, Lowell C. Davis GM3c, [?], [?], [?],
Gilson G Guiher S1c, Robert G. McCandless GM3c,
Jack W.Collins GM1c

NAME	RATE	Months Served
Harold W. JOHNSTON	CGM	66
Jack W. COLLINS	GM1c	57
William E. EASLEY	GM1c	66
"I" "D" HENRY	GM1c	33
Richard BARTIK	GM2c	36
Benjamin LOUIE	GM2c	24
Robert S. MACK	GM2c	26
Raymond C. SMITH	GM2c	30
William C. WEBB	GM2c	58
Lowell C. DAVIS	GM3c	34
Robert G. McCANDLESS	GM3c	34
Leroy C. McGOVNEY	GM3c	49
Rupert E. POSEY	GM3c	24
Frank R. PROCHASKA	GM3c	24
James H. WELLS	GM3c	27
John R. WHELIHAN	GM3c	33
Robert W. PROFF	S1c(GM)	24
Arnold G. RHODES	S1c(GM)	24
John F. WOODS	S1c	42
Gilson G. GUIHER	S1c	36
Kenneth R. HAKE	S1c	32
Kenneth M. CLARK	S1c	30
Larry B. SLAYMAKER	S1c	28
Casey WINTERS	S1c	26
Richard E. MONTGOMERY	S1c	22
Albert H. MARTIN	S1c	19
Raymond SCHMIDT	S1c	17
John J. LOPEZ	S1c	13

Pages from the USS Porter's 1st Anniversary Year Book
Officers	1st Division	2nd Division	"O" Division	"F" Division
"T" Division	"C" Division	"B" Division	"M" Division	"S" Division
All Artwork, Poems, Text and Crew Lists are from the First Anniversary Year Book

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