Benham (DD 796) - Naval Cruise Book

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Bad Row: HALL, STOCKARD, MUIR, MONDERO, LEBOLD. DEBENEDETTL ESCOTT, RIEPMA, ADKINSON. BAXTER. DREADING. BRUNSINK. FERREIRA. ThnJ Row: COINS. WL OLLE, SILVA. HOLLINGSWORTH. KORN. BROOKSHIRE. BAILEY. CROCKER, BLEA. COWELL. Kiitclinn: flAGNON. VANDEBERG, TREVINO. RUSSELL. GOUBAL ' LT, MARCZI. OSBORNE. PAUL. PYN. MONTO ' A, MOODY. Silting: CURRY. VOGEL. ALLEN. GORE. ROBERTSON. LEJEUNE. HALEY. CHAPPELL. SECOND DIVISION This is the division that is seen working around the fantail all day and rigging the motor whale boat in and out all night. It is made up of deckapes, gunner ' s mates, fire- controlmen and torpedomen. The jobs vary with the different rate, but nobody is a stranger to the favorite tools of the navy; a paint scraper and brush. When we embarked on the trip, we were under the able supervision of Ensign Tex Copeland and Tate, BMl. After about three months of the trip, Tate got those much sought orders to shore duty and Gagnon, BM2 took his place. Whatever the job given the division there is always a specialist to handle the situation.

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,- t-V V I ' Bjci Row: LILLIE, BENNETT, OWEN. LLOYD. RICHBURG. CHAMBERS. ROY. GONZALES MiJMe: ENS COSGROVE, ERASER. GRAY, PETERSON. KEENER, FARRY. RONEN. GOBBLE, JONES, ENS CURRY. Sitting: TINGEY, PIACENTINO, GIRARD, SPANGLER, SICARD, MCKEE, STONG. Missing: EVICK, QMC, BYLAND, E.M , BYLAND. D. W. C DIVISION The five rates, Quartermaster, Radioman, Teleman, Yeoman and Personnelman, send and receive all the com- munications aboard our ship. Each rate has a special method of carrying out its part of communications. The Yeoman and Personnelman take care of all correspondence. This correspondence may be in the form of transfers or requests for about anything you can think of. They publish the plan of the day, handle all liberty cards and leave papers, and see that everything which pertains to the ship ' s personnel is put into the individual ' s service record. The Personnelmen also maintain the Personnel Accounting System. Radiomen are the wireless operators, responsible for all radio traffic that may take place. They stand a twenty- four hour watch both in port and underway receiving the dits and dahs from many different stations. These men also set up the radios for the tactical signals that are received during operations at sea. You may also find near the Radio Shack a few Telemen. Telemen are the ship ' s mailmen that re- ceive, sort, and hand out the ship ' s mail. The Quartermasters rely on the flashing light and flags for their part of the communications team — the visual side. The signalmen use these plus the semaphore code and flag hoists to relay the messages to other ships and to shore stations. The Quarter- masters stand quartermaster watches underway and are the Officer-of-the-Deck ' s right hand men. They also keep an hourly weather log and the quarter- master ' s Notebook in which is recorded all the events that take place aboard at the time they happen. Thus the C Division is one of the most im- portant divisions aboard our ship, for without com- munications there can not be any unity in operations and each ship alone would be totally ineffective.