Wisconsin (BB 64) - Naval Cruise Book

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ig 'vswvv-I ,,. The Operations Department can do as many dif- ferent things as one of Rube Coldbergs contraptiong, CIC can spot a plane a hundred miles from the ship. flip a switch to find out whose team heis on. chat with the pilot over a radio circuit hooked up by Main Communications, or, if he may be unfriendly. track his course and speed until he's close enough for us to bring our guns to bear. Or take one of those foggy nights when O.D.s tear out their hair- buoys ahead, fishing craft without lights on the bow. and land somewhere in the vicinity. A continuous flow of radar information from Combat guides the ship and saves the day. When one of those radars or radios konks out you've got your choice of a feys dozen Electronics Technicians to doodle and fiddle with a thousand knobs and wires until the thing perks up again. And if the darn set just wont mend. we can always rely on the lookouts - ninety pairs of the nest eyeballs to be found on any ship. Communications is a pretty broad term on the WISCONSIN. You could be talking about the isork done in any one of seven radio rooms, or perhaps you're thinking of those flag- and light-happy ex- perts up on the Signal Bridge-or you could mean the Post Office, which handles a type of communica- tions highly valued by us all. And yet it's all Opera- tions. The Ops Department is the ey es and ears of the ship-and maybe a little of the brains, too. nfl ' Gperations

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