Buchanan (DDG 14) - Naval Cruise Book

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1 £ ■ lr h h ETC (SW) Bovle ET2 (SVV) Campbell ET3 (SW) Howdershell WE DIVISION Electronics Technician (ET) ET3 Stephenson ET3 Lauritzen ' AN ET? OH YEAH, DEY DON ' T DO NUTTIN!! A typical response from any member of the crew. What follows is a typical day for an ET, otherwise known as EVERYTHING TECH- NICIAN . Reville, Quarters, listen to the chief complain, training, clean the compartment, perform PMS on any one of 437 electronic units bro- ken by a Radioman or Operations ' Specialist who mistook said unit for a rock on which to beat his head (or other anatomical extremity), listen to the chief rant and rave, pick personal items from out of the trash that the chief threw away, safety check a portable radio the size of Manhatten, explain to a Junior Officer that no sir, you can ' t extend the range of the radar to get a look of San Diego from Guam or that no sir, you ' re not going to be able to call Mommy on this Satellite Radio explain the definition of OFF and ON to an innocent but beguiling individual when queried by him as to the fact that DUH, DIS TING DON ' T WORK . . . Lunch nooner. Turn to, continue ships refueling for the fifth time this week and always on Sundays, fix a computer ter- minal that someone forgot was not a Pac Man game and or a coffee ta- ble, now re-man the 5000 man working party, get those 30 units of test equipment to the tender for calibration and use that small boat over there, calibrate these voltmeters, ammeters, and frequency meters for the A-Gangers, yes, all 64 of them, you have 15 minutes, clean the spaces, listen to the chief snivel because you missed a dust speck under- neath the TACAN Antenna, show movies on Site TV and listen to the crew complain because you ' re not showing wrestling or the Transfor- mers again, answer trouble calls from CIC because they can ' t see a tar- get and help NOT SO turn up the intensity switch, lose again to the chief and the EMO in Spades and Trivial Pursuit stay up all night on something nobody else on the ship calls a watch but it feels like one to you, clean the spaces again before morning quarters, put a smile on your face, a song in your heart, go to quarters and listen to the chief

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WORK . . . WORK . . . WORK!!! % — During the many months at sea, work is often the only release from the anxiety of leaving loved ones be- hind, fortunately, for sailors there is always work to be done, it comes in all sizes and shapes and once com- pleted, always more to be done.