Mississippi (CGN 40) - Naval Cruise Book

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Combat Systems

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G , , X at ,Jw ' il A,,, , ff LCDR K. Mulcahey LT B. Hamilton Combat Systems Officer Battery Control Officer DSC D. Allen CD Division YN2 D. Wersinger DS3 A. Franklin DS1 B. Lage D52 J. Blazes 4'7 DS3 D. DeHart DS3 L. Myers . CWO4 E. Thomas X N X X X is X ,- Nothing has revolutionized our modern Navy more than the ad- vent of computers. And handling the Mississippi's multitude of computer systems rests on the able shoulders of CD Division, af- fectionately known as the DS Gang. Our shipboard computers are used for every purpose imag- inable, from determing fire con- trol solutions on submarines, to guiding a missile in flight, to keeping track of how many spare parts are on board. During this deployment, the Data Systems Technicians and their roomfuls of computers processed about 22,000,000,000,000 bytes of data. Now that's quite a bit of information, no matter where the chips may lay. The next time you marvel at your pocket calculator, and wonder how it all works, be thankful for the wizards of CD Di- vision, who keep the Mississippi's calculators running in typical 4.0 fashion. ' Fi Pa , 'fu' i -eww -L W 0 , W1 M -an 4 f if ZVVKQ 1' if , 0, ,, hx I, f ,V f 7 w I an ,wwv 'L 'mm 'law-..', , , 1