BATTALION Wednesday, January 10, 1973 College Station, Texas Page 3 Navy Demoralization: Familiar Signs Reappearing IE. YOU E CARE- mptm LY SlflO ALTERNATIVE FEATURES SERVICE I Is the U.S. Navy in for the |1 same fate that destroyed the American Army as an effective FVFV fighting force in Vietnam? For ^INCH the past eight months, the Navy has been doing the bulk of the ED PPpr fighting and the familiar signs '!RF!AA/t °f disintegration have all appear- 9 ed—increased anti-war dissension, ■ racial tensions and riots, acts of sabotage, and growing use of hard • drugs. Even if the fighting stops ream Y two !es utter ffee ■ soon, it will take years ™ Navy to recover from the A % 1 for the Viet- ■ nam curse” that has demoralized I the American military. Serious racial clashes on air craft carriers have received wide ■ publicity recently, but the Navy I — views as more ominous the rash of sabotage incidents keeping U.S. warships immobilized and away from the Gulf of Tonkin. Since the air war has intensified, mys terious explosions have ripped through several huge aircraft car riers stationed just off North Vietnam. Millions of dollars worth of repairs have been done on these ships, and others delib erately sabotaged in other parts of the Pacific. The carrier USS Ranger, while stationed at Alameda Naval Sta tion, suffered more than two doz en documented acts of sabotage in two months. These included cut ting of fire hoses, telephoned bomb threats, plugging of a fire main, pollution of the ship’s fresh water with aviation fuel, fire in the auxiliary room, flooding of a gun compartment, and assorted damage to the generators and oil pumps. But the most spectacular sabotage was done to the ship’s reduction gear. Someone had thrown a paint scraper and two bolts into the gear causing $800,- 000 worth of damage and keeping the 78,000 ton 4600 man ship idle for four months. The Navy has singled out a 21-year-old ship’s fireman, Pat rick Chenoweth, as the culprit and charged him with “wartime sab otage” a crime carrying a 30- year sentence. Chenoweth is a quiet, unassuming sailor from Puyallup, Washington who grew up in a foster home. He has nev er been active in any kind of political group. Presently he is in the brig at Treasure Island, where he has been held without bail for four months while the case is going through its prelimi nary hearings. “The Navy has an incredibly shaky case,” says Eric Seitz, at torney for the young sailor. “There are no eyewitnesses, fin gerprints or any other physical evidence linking him with the act. The prosecution case rests entirely on statements of three witnesses who claim Pat admit ted doing the sabotage, but two of them say they thought he was joking. We have evidence that many of the men on the ship talked like this—bragging they were responsible for keeping the ship away from Vietnam.” Seitz says his investigation has shown that some 350 men had access to the room that was sab otaged. “I believe there is so much sabotage on the ship the Navy is frustrated and looking for anyone to serve as a scape goat,” the attorney says. “The charge of wartime sabotage is be ing used to boost the punishment and to make my client an ‘ex ample’ to the rest of the crew.” A similar sabotage trial was completed last month in Norfolk, Virginia. In that case, a military judge found Jeff Allison, the son of an Oakland, California high way patrolman, guilty of setting a $7.2 million fire aboard the air- BATTALION CLASSIFIED ECIAL gening " dinner th Crabapple essing ffee or Tea vy of any Me. 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