USS RICH (DD-820)
Fleet Post Office
New York 09501
THURSDAY
JULIAN DATE 2314
PLAN OF THE DAY
09 November 19XX
DUTY MAA: STG2 CARLSON
DUTY YN: PN3 CIERVO
CARRY
OUT THE NORMAL UNDERWAY ROUTINE WITH THE FOLLOWING EXCEPTIONS:
0600 Messgear
0615 Breakfast for cooks,
messcooks, POl's and the oncoming watch
0630 Breakfast for the
crew
0632 Sunrise
0730 Officer's call
0740 Quarters for muster,
inspection and instruction
0800 General Quarters (battle
problem) plus BDCE
1000 Medical Lecture in
the hangar for OPS Department
1000 Executive Officer's
inspection of messing and berthing spaces
1045 Messgear
1100 Dinner for cooks,
messcooks, PO1's and the oncoming watch
1130 Dinner for the crew
1300 NGFS training for
starboard section (CIC, Plotting Room, Director,
and mount personnel)
1630 Check setting of material
condition YOKE, make reports to the Bridge
1700 Messgear
1715 Dinner for cooks,
messcooks, PO1's and the oncoming watch
1730 Supper for the crew
1731 Prepare to darken
ship
1801 Sunset, darken ship
NOTES:
1. RICH SCHEDULE
Our tenative
operating schedule for the rest of this year is listed below:
18-23 November: Upkeep in Subic Bay
24-25 November: Enroute to gunline
26-Nov-19 Dec: NGFS off coast of Vietnam
20-22 December: Enroute to Singapore
23-31 December: Upkeep in Singapore
The ship
will probably remain in Singapore through New Year Day.
2. UCMJ Art. 92. FAILURE
TO OBEY AN ORDER OR REGULATION
Any person
subject to this code who-
(1) violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or
regulation;
or
(2) having knowledge of any other lawful order issued byy a member
of the
armed forces, which it is his duty to obey, fails to obey the
same;
or
(3) is derelict in the performance of his duties; shall be punished
as a
court-martial may direct.
3. INTERNATIONAL
DATELINE
Tonight
at 2200 the ship will cross the International Dateline, and
therefore
the date will change to 10 November, 1972.
The International
Dateline is used to adjust for the necessary difference
of one
day in time in traveling either in the eastward or westward direc-
tion.
As our Navigator, Assistant Navigator, and Quartermaster's will
readily
explain; it is an irregular line roughly coincident with the 180th
Meridian
of Longitude shown on all maps of the world.
If the
entire circumference (360 degrees) of the earth is traversed, a
full
day (24 hrs) is gained or lost. This time adjustment is made necessary
by the
fact that on proceeding eastward or westward, the time becomes
respectively
one our later or earlier for each 15 degree of longitude
covered.
Surely you have noticed the frequent clock set backs we've ex-
perienced.
The location
of the dateline in the middle of the Pacific Ocean provides a
convenient
location in which to make the change of date without confusion
in the
affairs of eveyday living. Actually, the line deviates around
certain
small islands and island groups to maintain harmony.
In crossing
the dateline from east to west, the date Thursday, November 9th
instantly
becomes Friday, November 10th; and of course the opposite is
true
on the return voyage.
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