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The other half of Operations is Communica- tions. hich is concerned with information which usually does not reqirire such rajiid handling. Here are the men who time the radios and use patch panels to connect the transmitters and re- ceivers to the microphones used in GIC, on the Bridge and in Flag Plot. But Radio also handles , the l e .lL;cs wliiih mo c in an inicnding stream lo and hoin the ship. Not radar scopes Ijut the teletype machines dominate radio, copying the lleet broadcasts which give us nearly all of our incoming messages. And there is the endless dot- dash of the radio operators sending and receiving Morse code. Here the classified messages are brok- en out of their code, and then written up. Dupli- cated messages are collected by the messengers and routed to the people who must see them. A voice from the squawk box suddcnlv shfJut W e ' re getting a loud Ijackground scjiieal and in- terference on circuit 2, and you know you are in Radio Central. The supervisor miuters some- thing under liis breath ( vhich can ' t be cjuotcd here), pushes down the button and says, We ' ll check it. Then he calls Radio II, where the transmitter man is standing his watch, and tells him to check bra o. In this case the transmit- ter man is lucky, for he can stay in II to do it, rather than having to dash up to Radio IV. He tries to find the trouble — unsuccessfidly — and then calls Radio T, -where the supcr isor calls Combat and asks them to try it again. As the supervisor tells Combat that the trans- mitter is fine on circuit 4 and that it is properly connected to the antenna, the messenger comes in with a board full of messages which all the officers concerned have seen. Then he picks up the copies of the messages which have accumu- lated in the time he has been gone, and starts again on his unending rounds of the ship. Mean- while the signalmen are watching for the blink- ing call-up from ships in company, or issuing a tactical signal from COMCRUDIV-2 by hoisting signal flags. This is Communications — writing up mes- sages, checking the FOX (Fleet Broadcast), send- ing out messages, setting up freqs, logging and filing — and trying to get Combat to turn down the volume on that circuit 4 receiver so they won ' t get feedback and then blame it on them. CIC and Communications are, together, the Operations Department; the eyes, ears and voice of the USS MACON. tNS I w, n.Hi Regisieicii Pubs C.. i Memphis, Teiin,
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LT|f. I (, L,K,ra,e, III ssi Miii CIC Onkcr Wtsioii 93. Mass. iH I.TJG F. W .Moiil Coiiwsvilk. Pa. To the uninitisited, CIC looks about like an eight year old boy does to his grandmother — always squirming, always trying to go six differ- ent directions at the same time; babbling inces- santly (and often incomprehensibly) , forever asking questions, never anything but loud and noisy. In summer he runs all the faster and gets too hot — in winter he revels in becoming as cold as f ossible. Slo vly the antits of CIC become less confused and more meaningful. Rotating from job to job for a few eeks makes each duty come alive to you. When the radar scope operator yells to you the ranges and bearings of ten skunks every min- ute, it ' s plenty hectic! You move on to the sur- face plot, where you mark the positions of the ships detected by radar on a big piece of plexi- glass. This job doesn ' t look hard, either, until the P. O. says that to do it properly you have to stand behind the board and Write backwards! Finally you are taught to read a radar scope, and then vou ' re a real radarman.
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