Image from Brian Johnson

circa 1966 Image from Danny K. Shepherd

From Danny K. Shepherd: Thought I'd send along a very rare look at the very first station patch for Sinop. Unlike the later plaque image, this patch was the work of the sailors of NAVDET 4 at Sinop in 1966, when the very first PCS personnel were assigned to that dusta. CT2 Bill Myrons helped design the patch and authored the translated patch slogan, "Give me some slack" into Turkish. He was the resident "I" branch Turkish linguist at the time.

From Bill Myrons: Although Danny Shepherd gives me a lot of credit for the design, I really only provided the Turkish. John Crossley was the one that came up with the idea for a patch. John Crossley and Tony Gales were the ones who designed it. John wanted to find out how effective the slogan worked and one morning when he was returning to the hill on a bus with a load of Turkish workers chatting among themselves, he yelled "Bana Lacka verin!" and an immediate hush settled and the bus remained quiet the rest of the way.