Ashland (LSD 48) - Naval Cruise Book

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Operations Mission Ratings The Operations Department performs the functions of combat systems operations and coordination, communication. intelHgence. electronic war- fare. heHcopter and amphibious support. ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN (ET) - maintains, repairs and caHbrates: radars, electronic communications, recognition and identification, navigation, test and support equipment. ELECTRONIC WARFARE TECHNICIAN (EW) - responsible for the detection, collection, location and classification of elec- tronic emissions. Additionally, they are responsible for acous- tic countermeasures. OPERATIONS SPECIALIST (OS) - responsible for the opera- tion, evaluation and dissemination of information derived from radar, communications and navigation equipment. RADIOMAN (RM) - responsible for the operation of radiotele- phones and teletypes, preparing messages for international and domestic commercial telegraph, and transmitting and receiving na al messaees. SIGNALMAN (SM) - responsible lu. .iiuinj; a, visual messages, encoding and decoding messages honors to passing vessels, and serving as lookouts for sending and recei ing conducting

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