Dixon (AS 37) - Naval Cruise Book

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LTJG Simmons, B M Division] Officer, MPA BTl Brown BTl Busby BT2 Belisle ■ BT2 Cayas ■ BT2 Harris ■ BTS Kuhn BT2 Millan ■i BT2 Morgan 1 BT2 Romero I BT2 Quinn BT2 Salinas BT2 Turecek I BT3 Bailey MM3 King BT3 Quinley BT3 Spurlin BTFA Alanis BTFA Davis FA Ford FN Henderson BRFN Holden BTFN Jarvis ' BTFN Lynch BTFN Milligan BTFN Orta BTFN Peper BTFN Raxter A BTFN Rorick

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The air conditioned comfort we enjoyed while deployed was due in large part to the people in A Division. Additionally, they are responsible for all of the ship ' s auxilliary equipment including the air conditioning units, elevators, conveyors, steering gear, anchor windlasses, refrigeration plants and many other items. While the ship was performing upkeep on the various ships, A Division also provided high and low pressure air, oxygen, nitrogen and low pressure steam to all of the units as well as DIXON. The upkeep and repair of the ship ' s small boat and emergency diesel engines was also performed by the A gang.

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BTFN Rose BTFN Scogin BTFN Smith BTFN Sulecki The DIXON is propelled by steam and that steam is made by the engineers in B Division, from the water made by the M Division. The steam runs the evaporators, main engine and the ship ' s generator which provides all of the ships electrical power. Average temperatures of 120 degrees were endured by these engineers in order to provide these services for the DIXON, as well as the tended units. B Division is sometimes called the backbone of engineering. If they don ' t work, we don ' t go. |fch ' -1 % ILjj 9 16 mpMM ' m. ' 7mu Si lL. 4 Wm V -M mt : s M . m £M yys - - . . ■ fl