Porterfield (DD 682) - Naval Cruise Book

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1-Y Always Ready ,ii 1 l Probably no other department experiences quite the change in l the tempo of operations upon reporting for duty in WESTPAC as y t the Operations Department. The routine administrative work as- sociated with schools, training, and various inspections is pug ' to one side and each division shifts into high gear. With many r . Operations personnel 'reverting to port and starboard watch-stand. 1 'fe ing, each team - radio, signal, combat and navigation - prepares ti itself to meet all possible contingencies. Whatever the ship may A be told to do, the operations teams each have to know howto f carry out the orders, where to go, to whom to report for dutyqand in general how to assure that PORTERFIELD Will be on station M ready to meet her commitments. ! X , N, - i , i 1 i , , x 1 V I. , ' ' Even this 1BM s too slow. MRMPH, T' if 3, t tv l s 'Y if bfi? 1 r' til it I N s L , it . I 2 , The life of an only Striker. SHORT E

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B Lk, Wizard of .... Communications are at the heart of all operations. Without reliable, secure and rapid communications with other ships and operational commanders, we might as well have anchored off DaNang and broken out the fishing poles. The amount of traffic of con- cern to the ship increased by about 8007, in WEST- PAC. During the cruise, radio screened almost 150,000 messages and processed over 3500. Thou- sands more were pulled from the teletypes for the information of the Navigator, Ops Boss, and the Captain and nearly 450 reams of paper were expended to insure that concerned personnel received copies of pertinent messages. Getting a receiver back on the line. On the bridge, the signalmen maintained port and starboard watches continuously. Especially busy during replenishments and when operating with a carrier group, the signalmen provided rapid and silent' communications with other units in company.rAlways shorthanded they were often assisted by the other members of the operations team on the bridge, the quartermasters. Tasked with the responsibility of recording all significant movements of the ship, the QMS had the additional responsibilities of continu- ously fixing the ship's position and occasionally making routine weather observations to be forwarded to meteorological centers. Which way s up?