Post-Korean War Service
From 1954 to 1956, her destinations ranged from islands in the Central Pacific Ocean, to Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan, the Philippine Islands, and Thailand. During the summer of 1956, she conducted arctic operations. On board was poet and yeoman Allen Ginsberg, who used the ship's mimeograph to print 52 copies of "Siesta in Xbalba", his first publication, while the ship was anchored off Icy Cape, Alaska.
With the fall, resumed her schedule in the more temperate and tropical zones of the Pacific.
Read more about this topic: USNS Sgt. Jack J. Pendleton (T-AKV-5)
Famous quotes containing the words war and/or service:
“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
—Tony Benn (b. 1925)
“We too are ashes as we watch and hear
The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise
Of one whose promised thoughts of other days
Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed,
The service record of his youth wiped out,
His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)