Fife (DD 991) - Naval Cruise Book

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Deployment ' 92 OS3 Thon demonstrntes the art of dish washing. Operations Specialists (OSs) operate radar, navigation equipment, and communications equipment in the ship ' s Combat Information Center. They detect and track ships, aircraft, and missiles. They act as the eyes and ears of the ship, just one deck below the pilot house. This cruise was an extremely demanding and fantastic one for them. A notable event was near the end of the deployment when prior-FIFE-enlisted, now CW02 Bobby Pullin, ended his tours. The division wishes him fair winds and following seas. The division also found time to have fantastic experiences in all their great liberty ports. - - OS2 Edward Black receives the Naiiy Achievement Medal from RADM R. A. K. Taylor, Commander U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.

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Arabian Gulf I I I S I O left to right 1st row: OSl ISW) Sweet. OSi Saavedra, OSi Baldwin 2nd row: OSi Hillman. OSl Prestndge. OSSN Greaney. OS3 Than, OS3 Griffith left tu right 1st row: ENS Mitchell. OSSN Amstadter, OSl Holcomh. OSl Demmm. OiJ Yoimce. OSl (SW) Nix. OSi Mathews 2nd row: OSl Black, OSi Kemper, OSi Sullivan, OSi Simpson, OSC (SW) Eubank, OSl Patejdl, OSl Lee 28 J

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Arabian Gulf O I V I s I o left to right CTM2 Dudics. CT03 Faulkner, CTR} Lott, CTRSA Hosto, CTRSN Gibson. CTR3 Adami. CTRSN Voting. CT02 Staehmiis, CTR2 Caetta. CTRC (SWI Rich Tl 30 he men of OZ Division use the ship ' s AN SSQ- 108(V)2 OUTBOARD II Passive Electronic Sur- veillance Measures and AN USQ-64( V)5 TACINTEL Special Intelligence Communications suites. The division is tasked with maintenance of tactical, strate- gic, and political intelligence pictures, early threat warning to guide other ship ' s and battle group sen- sors, and targeting solutions for various shipboard weapons systems. Additional functions are mainte- nance of all OUTBOARD II system equipment, ad- ministrative security for classified material, and man- agement of shipboard intelligence teams such as the Snoopy Team for intelligence photography and sighting reports. OZ Division is actually a compilation of five different ratings, including Cryptologic Techni- cians Collection (CTRs),Cryptologic Technicians Com- munications (CTOs), Cryptologic Technicians Main- tenance ( CTMs ) , Cryptologic Technicians Administra- tive (CTAs), Cryptologic Technicians Interpretive (CTIs), and Intelligence Specialists (ISs). Throughout the deployment, the OZ team provided timely and highly accurate support to the ship ' s Tactical Action Officers (TAOs) and various tactical and strategic decision makers in the battle group. The support provided consisted of over 1600 tactical and technical messages. From the start through the finish of the deployment, the efforts of the OUTBOARD team earned the ship over 20 Bravo Zulu compliments from numerous high ranking fleet and national commanders. »faji - CTOj Faulkner making contact with another ham operator, just to find out the latest on CNN. !li