Talk:USS Pine Island (AV-12)/@comment-216.41.242.208-20160803184012

don't know why it was not mentioned but Piney Maru was first and as far as i know, the only ship in COMNAVPAC to ever win a Gold E Battle Efficiency Award...i was a LTJG Supply Corps officer aboard Pine Island under command of Captain D.W. (Hutch) COOPER  (later VADM Cooper) in 1964 and 1965; believe it was 1965 when we won the Gold E....