The following is a story that was donated by LT Mike GOSS who served aboard the Warbler during the peace years 60-62.  It looks as if they had there share of fun also.  Thanks Mike

One day we were asked to use our M/S SONAR to find a downed F-105 Thunderbird in Hakata Ko which was the bay directly under the take off pattern for Itazuke Air Force Base.  The 105 had flamed out as she was leaving the runway and the pilot ejected before the bird hit the water.  The Air Force had the pilot come on board Warbler to assist by roughly indicating where he had seen the plane splash down.  I distinctly remember hearing him use the PriTAC like it was a HAM radio and the skipper wincing every time the less than standard voice procedures of the typical AF Jet Jockey went out over our circuit.  We had ALWAYS observed strict radio protocols and it was almost sacrilegious to hear it mangled in that casual way.  With a sense of inter service cooperation we said nothing to the AF Cap't. but found it very difficult to bite our tongues. 

An interesting story came out of the Cuban Missile Crises.  We were in Hong Kong along with USS Whippoorwill MSC 207.  Lt. Hopkins had been transferred and my relief had reported aboard.  I was scheduled to board a Cruiser (it was in Hong Kong with Sasebo as its next Port) the next day.  I woke up and looked out the porthole to see the Cruiser steaming out of Hong Kong harbor under full steam.  I wondered what had happened to my ride back home.  I went up to the bridge, where most of the OPS gang and the rest of the Wardroom had gathered, to find out that the Cuban Missile Crisis had just put the US Navy on a full war time alert.  We watched as every US ship in Hong Kong harbor put to sea and expected at any moment to receive our orders to get underway.  As the day went on the harbor cleared of all US Navy craft and we suddenly realized that Lt. Tarbuck was SOPA Hong Kong.  After waiting a while, we contacted CoMinRon III in Sasebo asking for instructions.  The reply, while worded differently, said in effect "OOPS!!  We forgot about you guys.  Get the hell out of there and get back to Sasebo ASAP."

During the last six months I was on board, FDR III otherwise known as Frank reported aboard one of the Sweeps in Sasebo.  He was a fresh young Ensign who had just been commissioned.  Shortly after reporting, the skipper asked Frank if he wanted to bring the ship into port.  The green youngster said, "Sure, I'll give it a go."  After doing a near perfect job of docking the ship and getting her tied up, the skipper complimented him on having done an excellent job of bringing her in.  The story goes that Frank replied, "Well it is a little bit larger than Grandpa's (THE FDR) yacht but she handles about the same."

Would like to know what happened to all of the guys aboard Warbler.  Would especially like to hear about BM Denver Cox, Ship's cooks Davis & Gregg, and the other White Hats that made made it possible for my job to get done.  We had the FINEST galley in the US Navy.  Davis & Gregg were OUTSTANDING cooks who really cared about the food that they prepared.  I believe they were the FIRST MSC galley that received a 4.0 rating during annual inspection.  I still have fond memories of the end of the fiscal year when we had money left over in the galley funds (unheard of in sweeps) and Davis suggested that we have a picnic and barbecue for the crew and their families.  We had Whippoorwill's crew take over for a few hours and the entire crew embarked on to a YFU that took us out to one of the sand beach islands outside of Sasebo harbor.  There Davis & Gregg set up steel oil barrel halves with charcoal fires where they cooked steaks, lobsters, hamburgers and hotdogs for all hands and their significant others.  What with potato salad, a little beer and other libations we all had a grand time.  One of the few really pleasant memories from some very interesting times.