Albany (CA 123) - Naval Cruise Book

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Now, much as I like all my shipmates, I ' m vision? Well, a division is composed of a group of Without each one of them the ship couldn ' t get ally eat together and pull liberty together, although It ' s the working side-by-side that breeds lasting is to be found in the division; you can find it bet For the ship to get underway it takes just this co partment? Well, a department is simply a way of responsibilities lie in roughly the same area. A de policies to be followed by his division officers who, I ' ve done enough talking for now. I ' d rather of shipboard life. sort of partial to those men in my division. A di- men who are specialists in their type of work. along. The men in the division bunk together, usu- a man is quite free to choose his companions. friends. This is not to say that the only cooperation ween different divisions and departments as well. operation among the many different rates. A de- administrating a whole bunch of divisions whose partment head is the unifying force who formulates in turn, regulate their divisions accordingly, show you while I explain the whys and wherefores

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OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT G. S. Adams, LT Winthrop, Mass. CIC Officer In the Operations Department we have four divisions known as OR, OE, OS and 01. I ' ll explain the primary functions of each as we get into them. Operations con- sists of communications, both the means and the methods, as well as the detecting of unknown — and possibly enemy — contacts: aircraft as well as ships It is even possible to say that the Operations divisions contain the eyes and ears of the ship Operations often lays claim to being the heart of the ship Without them, it would be hard to find a heartbeat; that much is true.