Buchanan (DDG 14) - Naval Cruise Book

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GC Division -9 'ff'-Q Signalmen and Badiomen, comprising two ratings within the Operations Department, culminate their 6 month VVestPac tour with a sense of pride in their effort of a job well done. The Signalmen have enjoyed blinking their way from the balmy climate of Vietnam to the chilly weather of Korea. Their job encompasses not only the transmission and receipt of flashing light, semaphore, and flaghoist, but the timely delivery of such signalled information to the bridge and combat information center, the latter becoming vitally important in tactical situations where imminent danger of collision could result from inaccurate or untimely delivery of executive signals. Visual communications being their primary duty and responsibility, we're sure you'll find no sharper signal bridge on a destroyer type ship. The cleanliness, preservation and appearance of their spaces shows much BUCHANAN PRIDE . The Badiomen have stood arduous watches for the greater part of this years' WestPac deployment, but it has not stifled their high spirit and willingness to accept the chaIlenge . From long-haul teletypewriter communications involving thousands of miles, to short range intra-task group voice communications, the radiomen have met the challenge with repeated success. The gunline period offered the greatest challenge because BUCHANAN was flagship for the gunline commander and the message traffic load increased to nearly 10 times its norm. The most singular challenge has been maintaining the appropriate teletypewriter fleet broadcast which BUCHANAN is solely dependent upon for routine information, from weather, logistics, and personnel matters, to high precedence flash traffic perhaps assigning us to a gunfire mission. The crew might also like to know that they have received their baby-gram messages via this means. OC Division has its chow hounds, its liberty hounds and the like, but one thing is common to this division, a certain pride in 'upholding a part of BUCHANAN's smartness, and dedication to duty. llflmiB't,g, COMMUNICATIONS oFFicEn LT EDWARDS 41

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