Bellatrix (AF 62) - Naval Cruise Book

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3mm m FRONT ROW SITTING - Rogers, FN, Antokol, FN, Manantan, BTl, Taylor, FA, Foster, FN, Osborne, BT2, McCray, FN SECOND ROW STANDING - LTJG.SHEEHAN, division Officer, Zweirs, BTl, Russell, FN, Houy, FA, Miller, FA, Woodson, BT3, Ray, BT2, Bostic, BTCS B DIVISION Above you see those bad guys who have, in the last months, blown tubes on all three Deck Divisions and made possible Navy Showers by hoarding water in the peak tanks. On the right is the 1 bad guy Chief Bostic who keeps the cleanest boilers in the fleet, and the only crew ever to sleep on stations on the boiler flats. But aside from hours of liberty spent on fire- sides instead of firewater in Olongapo, morale remains high in B-Division. Faces change about every four or five years; the pay ' s not good, but working conditions are great in Hells Half Acre .

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I yl4 t - k ,i J.j?, FRONT ROW SITTING - Anderson, FN, Dauer, FN, De Loach, MM3, Mountain, MM2, Antone, SN, Wadosky, FA, Swift, FN, SECOND ROW STANDING - LTJG. SHEEHAN, Division Officer, Balikowski, MM3, Smith, FN, Penneau, FN, Folsom, MM2, Hartley, MM3, Martin, FN, Wright, MMl, Rodriquez, FN, Murray, FN, Kinder, MMCS M DIVISION All valve-twisters are not phantoms as seen above. Granted that most of the crew has never been beyond those heavy steel doors on the mess deck level but we sure have. This cruise, however, when things got rough during unreps, M-Wvision was even seen turning to on deck and in the hatches, while some of the older hands stayed on watch for ten to fifteen hours straight. After twenty years afloat and five years in the Navy, BELLATRIX still purr ' s like a kitten and gets outstanding on every inspection. Chief Kinder, far right, our new senior engineering chief, insures that we will be ready for many deployments to come. Who knows, with enough oiling, painting, scrubbing, and coaxing, BELLATRIX may someday do twice fifteen knots, and we may even return to San Francisco a week early.

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f 1 SL-s L aLJI iJiu ' -i: .,-. ' Front Row, Sitting - Rocco, EMS, Iwanski, EM3,McGuire, EM3, Carbonell, EMI, Smethurst, IC3, Beteta, EM3, Second Row, Standing - CWO. Martz, Division Officer, Brumbaugh, EM3, Uselman, EM, Halm, IC3, Noard, EM2, Corcoran, EM, Bartley, EM3, 0 ' Donnel, EM, Navarro, EM E DIVISION Call an Electrician T ' With the huge amounts of power needed to run the winches that are necessary to perform our mission of replenishment at sea, the E Division is large but always very busy connecting power on the bus board to this andthator checking out a circuit or charging the batteries for the ship ' s boats or showing movies or maintaining a watch on the master gyro. The ship makes both Alternating and Direct Current in various voltages and uses as much power as a small community. Since everthing from most of our machinery to the elctric typewriter in the ship ' s office to the lighting we see by is run by elctricity, and interruption in the current effects the whole ship. We never realize how vital it is until on a rare occasion the load is dropped and everything stops momentarily until auxiliary power is turned on.