Midway (CVA 41) - Naval Cruise Book

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ft • STANDING]: Jones. G. W. ; Ryland. C. W. ; Roluw, M. R. ; Eller, R. E. ; Schlaeger. R. K. ; Brockenbury, L. I. uvale. T. ; White, W. G. ; Dayao, R. G. ; Diaz, J. A. ; Short, M. L. ; S.m ons, J. F. ; Torgler, J. E. ; (SITTING) ,oslee, R. D., PNC; Ens. A. Krivy ; Walker, V. R. PNC. Petty, D. W. ; Hightower, C. H. ; Kelly. R. G. Personnel is the largest of all Admin. Offices, in space, in numbers, and in job. Fifteen men work in a room about the size of a one-car garage and somehow manage to keep nearly 2,500 enlisted service records straight. This includes making all pertinent record entries; handling leave papers; processing all orders for per- sonnel coming, going, and leaving temporarily; and counseling any of the ship ' s company men who might have a question on their careers. Then, there is the slight additional duty of authorizing and issueing liberty cards. Administrative Office The Admin. Office is known throughout the ship for its work in putting out the Plan of the Day (the daily listing of what is happening aboard the ship) . But this is just a small routine part of a busy, non-routine office. The official duty is to assist the Executive Officer in his administrative function. This includes everything from handling his cor- respondence to finding out the name of the number two starboard butter-cutter. 150 Loupe, L. W. ; Lcdr. F. S. Kolbek.

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Lcdr. F. S. Kolbek X Division Officer or (5 IT - OcBEFORfyS? EXCEPT AFTER The list of duties performed in X Division reads like the directory of a small office building. It includes counseling service on everything from insurance to character guidance. X Division also houses facilities and personnel which conceive, write, print and distribute all of the complicated forms that keep the mighty ship functioning. Also included are such special services as the post office, one of Midway ' s biggest morale factors, and the athletic gear locker which maintains and dis- tributes sporting equipment to the crew. The words Administrative Department and X Division are so closely related that they are normally used interchangeably. In reality, the only difference is that the Administrative Department is headed by Cdr. W. L. Adams, the Executive Officer, and concerns itself with the primary duties of command and morale. The Divi- sion (called X for the unknown quantity) is headed by Lcdr. F. S. Kolbek and is concerned with the routine shipboard duties of keeping spaces clean, filling General Quarters Billets, maintaining discipline, etc. The splitting of the two is necessary to prevent confusion when submitting reports (just as it is necessary in Medical, Dental and Navigation— the other one division departments) . Special Services Someone long experienced a moment of truth and invented the name Special Services. This is the only term which can adequately describe the duties performed by a handful of men in an office the size of a large closet. The ship ' s radio station, popcorn sales, athletic gear locker, hobby shop, stage shows, movies, parties, etc. all originate somewhere in the Special Services organization. (STANDING): Hawkins, D. 1 Egg. D. W. Stanley. R. D. . ; (SITTING); Thornton. J. K Crowder. B. W.

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Public hifurniatiu)! Office Deep in the heart of X Division is an office with numerous duties — all of which are unknown to most of the crew (in fact even some of the men who work in the office don ' t fully understand). This office, commonly known as the PIO office, is charged with the responsibility of letting the public know what the U.S. Navy and the Midway in particular are doing for them. This includes the people at home, the people in the ports we visit and the people on board ship. Code 4 Publications Department Heads meeting in the Executive Officers Cabin. Leading a monastic existence in his wire-latticed cell in compartment A-0106- 14E, the Code F our Publications Custodian has only one wish : that someone tell him what Code Four means. Education and Training Office If a man wants to bone up on Oriental History while receiving college credit for his effort, or if he wants a high school or advanced college standing through examina- tion, or if he needs to complete qualification courses for advanced in rate, he goes to the person- nelmen who supply USAFI and advancement courses, GEO testing and general training facilities in the Education and Training Office. (STANDI.NIG) : Johnson. J. W. ; Hosteller, C. F. ; White, D. M. ; Gilge, G. L. ; Rickard, H. (SIT TING) : Thomas, H. G. ; Ens. R. S. Allio : Thomson, D. B.