New Jersey (BB 62) - Naval Cruise Book

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No Strain . . . No Pain, 1940s CDR Neil Hagan LCDR Tom Paluch LCDR Al Shimkus Medical Medical Department is 26 individuals qeiiipe company and TAD personnelj with skills ranging through nursing care, laboratory, x-ray, operating room, anesthesiology, surgery, physical therapy, lfflumal cardiac life support, health care administration, pharmacoP0?1a,a,nd the accumen of family practice medicine. Collectively, WC Cpltomlze the concept of the front-line Navy medicine team. Code Charlie One' u l

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Phone Talker, 1940's LCDR Steve Curtis Navigation When considering navigation as an art or science, it is essenilal that the prudent mariner have a tremendous reservoir of facts, hlflls and common sense .... The navigator, his assistant, and eight accomplished Cluarfef' masters embody this art and science while determining the Ships position whether steaming in the vast reaches of the oceans Of Pllo' ting narrow straits and ports 0' call. Departing Long Beach, we sailed north to Alaska, throughnthe Unimak Pass and into the Bering Sea. During this time, the naV1Sa' tion team collected vital sounding information which will be l1Sed to update charts and publications for future use by mariners W0f1d' wide. Pusan, Subic Bay and Hong Kong were building blocks of ex' perience that would prove vital through the Singapore and MalaCC21 Straits and the Persian Gulf as we fixed the ship's position CVC? 15 minutes. The gang,' was further challenged at each Port untl we reached the familiar waters of Long Beach. n During the deployment, Navigation made 2,200 celestial Ob' SefVati0nS, logged over 12,000 fixes and corrected over 350 Qharts' With water 'neath the keel, and head between the bu0YS,, New Jersey was on track, on time!',