Mississippi (CGN 40) - Naval Cruise Book

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Fire Control Technician S LTJG R. Kushner All the weapons in the world would be useless if we didn't know where to point them. Knowing how to do just that is the very important job of CF Di- vision. These Fire Control Tech- nicians, in both Guns and Mis- siles, maintain and operate the sophisticated fire control radars and equipment which guide our missiles and bullets to their tar- gets. They also own Harpoon, our newest surface-to-surface missile system. Trying to hit an airplane at ten miles or a ship at fifty miles is somewhat like standing on sec- ond base and trying to throw B- B's at a mosquito near home plate, yet the able men and ma- chines of CF Division prove daily that they are up to the task. Just another example of Mississippi men taking a tough job and doing it all 4.0 ! FTM1 C. Hirschy FTM1 K. LaVine FTM1 W James FTG1 J Clmino FTG1 G Fgsgk FTG2 B England FTM2 J. Hurnyak FTG 5 fir, 9.-,M wa. 12: L, 2 M. Newborn FTM2 J Brooks FTM2 A Cales FTM2 J Lynch FTM2 T Johnson

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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

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CF Division Maui' FTG2 D. Levy FTM3 D. Woodard FTG3 J. Jacobs 3'3 , . .'5vv, ' 5 it Q, A 1. - i. 4. Q az X N33 l ...ax r 'Ng -511:-Gig FTM3 W. Mullen FTM3 J. Morzuch FTM3 W. Scott FTG3 J. Smith FTM3 P. Hamilton FTG3 R. Leeson 1 N P4 KX V-5