Saipan (LHA 2) - Naval Cruise Book

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wg -.. OC DIVISICDN OC Division is composed of AC's or Air ConTrolrnon, who n'ToniTor oir rodors ond conTrol The orderly movernenT of oircroTT To ond from The ship. ln The l-lelioopTer DireoTion CenTer QHDCQ oir oonTroImen ensure ThoT oir ossoulT opprooohes ond reTurns ore oorreoTly vecTored. HDC coordinoTes The r'novemenT of personnel, vehicles ond equipn'TenT oshore LCDR Gilbert MAJ Cliffe ACC Crews ACT Horris AC2 Kois AC2 Word AC3 Jon YNSA ArmsTrong wiTh debork conTrol, The bridge ond prirnory flighT conTrol. During inTensive ornphibious fliQhT operoTions'ond during poor weoTher, HDC ond OC division corry ouT Their rnosT criTiooI Tosk, dir conTrol ond sofeTy. MAJ Cliffe, ACC Crews ond LCDR Gilben discuss The flighT plon 10 AC4 Horris reloys helo informoTion To The bridge MAJ ifi- .., A.: W' .-AA-- --- Cliffe droffs The flighT plon

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OA DIVISICDN LT Rau AGC SinnoTT AGT Shafer AG3 lannarone AGS Wall AGAN BradT AGAN Mason AGAN Schulze AN WiTTpenn OA Division is The weaTher office aboard The ship, providing environ- rnenTal observaTions and forecasTs. The division observers or Aero- grapher's lviaies, record and encode surface and upper air observaTions. They also decode, ploT and display incoming weaTher daTa. Divisional forecasTers review, analyze and inTerpreT The aerographer's charTs and forrnulaie forecasTs for The ship, embarked aircrafT and landing crafT. New advances in Technology will bring deskiop cornpuiers To The office, which will provide a much wider range of environmenial informaTion. AGAN BradT analyzing a surface weaTher charf .4-4 I AGAN Mason Takes wind readings wifh a handheld anemomeTer

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I x CDE DIVISICN LT Frazer ETCS Dees DSC Gandara ETC RiveTTe ET4 Bernard DS'l Evans ET4 Kendall DS2 Erringfon ET2 Good DS2 Joyce DS2 Philby D82 Schuppan DS2 Sfringer 4 ET3 Bailey pracTices semaphore wiTh signalmen near CCTV flighT deck camera GE Division is composed of highly skilled elecTronic specialisTs from Three unique raTings: DS QDaTa SysTems Techniciany, ET CElecTronic Technicianj and IC QlnTerior CommunicaTions Techniciany. Each sailor in OE division has successfully compleTed one or more of The mosT inTense and complex schools The Navy has To offer. individually, These raTings conTribuTe significanTly To The effecTive operaTion of various weapons and compuTer sysTems aboard SAIPAN, DS's mainTain The compuTers and displays for ITAVVDS flnTegraTed TacTical Am- phibious Warfare DaTa SysTem5 ond CDPS CCommunicaTion DaTa Processing SysTemj. The ET's main- Toin SAlPAN'S exfensive array of sophisTicaTed radars, communica- Tions and TesT equipment while our single IC mainTains CCTV CClosed CircuiT Television SysTemy TogeTher They form OE division, a vasT pool of Technical capabiliTy, ingenuiTy and manpower ThaT is unsurpassed and readily available. DS'l Brunner does inTricaTe soldering on a micro circuiT board