Fife (DD 991) - Naval Cruise Book

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Arabian Gulf C I V I s I o left to right Ut row: STGl (SW) Chambers. STG2 Whitaker 2nd row: STGC Sims, STGl Webb, STGl Murray, LT Hitchcock Inot pictured: TMT2 Williams, TM02 Brooks. STG2 Turner j 14 left to right Ut row: STG3 Saiwas, STGSN Bradley. STG3 Segueda. STGi Henderson 2nd row: STG.! Nguyen. STGN Riley. STGN Wise. STGSN Combs. STGi Ahernathy. STG.i McNeil. STGSN Loper

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Deployment ' 92 Wien one thinks of the mission of the ship, he or she normally thinks of those personnel that directly affect operations, OSs, RMs, FCs, STGs, CTs, the air detachment, and of course the engineers. Although each of these ratings repairs gear, and these ratings are very visible and important, if CE division was not there to maintain and fix equipment, these people would not be able to do their jobs. The DSs and ETs maintain and repair all external communications systems, surveillance radars, computer interfaces, computer programs, administrative computer systems, and repair numerous circuit boards through their electronic micro miniature (2M) repair station. They also supervise the ship ' s test equipment ' gauge calibration program, enabling all departments from navigation to engineering to accurately maintain the ship ' s systems within required specifications. What it all comes down to is, that when the high profile, visible people get awarded for a job well done, CE division can take silent pride, knowing that because of their efforts the ship has successfully completed its mission. You can talk about our inspection-ready passageway, but you can ' t communicate without DSl Valentine, member of the ship ' s derated cadre of computer technicians. DS2 Hammetl and ETS Edmonds show the finer art to not working, at time 1 S59. 13

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Deployment ' 92 CA Division is responsible for searching for, detecting, classifying, localizing, and prosecuting sub-surface contacts. FIFE ' s AN SQQ-89 is the most advanced sonar suite in the Navy, consisting of the AN SQS- 53B Hull Mounted Sonar, Mark 1 1 6 Underwater Fire Control System (UFCS), AN SQR- 1 9 Tactical Towed Array Sonar, AN SQQ-28 Sonobouy Signal Processing Syst em, and the AN UYQ-25 Range Prediction Computer. As the Arabian Gulf is not normally known as a submarine operating area, the division was left to perform many other tasks. During the first part of the cruise CA Division prepared FIFE ' s sonar system for the deployment and completed .50 caliber machine gun qualifications. The preparations included performing system alignments and calibration of the AN SQS-53B, AN SQQ-28, and AN SQR- 19. Upon entering the Arabian Gulf, CA Division started standing .50 caliber machine gun watches on the weatherdecks and communications watches in the Combat Information Center (CIC). The division successfully installed a new torpedo tube with no outside assistance and completed many repairs to major system components, maintaining the sonar suite at peak readiness. As the cruise wore on they worked diligently to prepare and carry out three separate mini-mobile target (MMT) exercises as well as a vast number of ROOFTOP helicopter data linking exercises. The Arabian Gulf cruise allowed CA to troubleshoot and correct many long-standing system STG3 StiliJhis confirms he cjn coitut to two, but only after looking at his shirt buttons. %«. k l