Missouri (BB 63) - Naval Cruise Book

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F-3 F-3 Division is secondary battery fire control. The MK 37 gunfire control sys- tem, originally designed during the 1930 ' s and progressively updated with the advent of radar during the 1940 ' s and 1950 ' s, still retains the ability, in partnership with the MK 38 dual pur- pose 5 38 guns, to deal with a wide array of modern air and surface threats. The key to success in secondary battery fire control is teamwork. Each of the 43 men in F-3 Division performs an intri- cate and often demanding job that is vital to delivering ordered fire on target on time. Secondary Plot ' s switchboard forward for the five-inch guns is manned bv FCSN Jacobs, FC3 Finder, FCSN Fernandez, FCS Brock and FCSN Mitchem. FC1 Joseph Granieri FC1 Dennis Thomas FCl Ronald J. Davis Jr. FC1 James Palmer FCl Charles Barton FC2 Mark Ferguson

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FCSN Chadwick Chariton FCSN Thomas Girouard SN John Hauser FCSN Scott Holtzapfel FCSN Paul Keith FCSN Tyron Mellott FCSN David Morrison Ft ' SN Jaime Rojas FCSN Jeffrey White FCSN Stephen Wilcox FCSN Robert Wolf Mighty Mos Spot-H. FC3 Bell sets the firing sequence for the main battery on this switch- board. FC3 Miramontes is the trainer in the di- rector. He determines the target ' s bearing.

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02 Haggard records serial numbers of five-inch rounds that FC3 Ashley passes to the magazine. FC2 Mitchem stands ready at the stable elements gyro ' stem, waiting for the order which will send five-inch rounds skyward. FC2 Paul Saville FC2 Steve Haggard FC2 Brett Werner FC2 J. S. Jablonski FC3 Robert Ashley FC3 Douglas Brock FC3 Richard Del Rio FC3 Daniel DuBeau FC3 Fred Finder FC3 Mark Green n p