[Bob]

the usual cruise was 6 months and 6 months in home port. This incident, I recall, was about this carrier being sent back again with out a break again to S.E Asia again...Don’t remember why it was though...

While I could easily be mistaken, I thought that a normal carrier Westpac at the time was at least nine months, if not a year. (My DDG did a six month Westpac in late 1972 but that was typical for the smaller ships.)

[virgil283]

Bob I was on a different carrier so I don’t know about the K.H. (My point was they were motivated to riot because of being sent back for another cruise with out a break..6 mo. or 9 mo. is a long at sea.And liberty’s don’t cut it after a while)