Bellatrix (AF 62) - Naval Cruise Book

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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.

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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 him rt , - ■ - ' ' 4 - fa -, V . ' •: t .„ i FRONT ROW, SITTING - Pruett, YN, Gray, HM3, Pederson, PCS SECOND ROW STANDING - Brown, SN, Manning, YN3, Chief Hopkins, HMC, CDR. SCHABER, Executive Officer, ENS. JACKSON, Personnel Officer, Roberts, PNl, Gagnon, SN, Haughee, SN X DIVISION X Division functions under the Executive Officer. It c onsists of the Ship ' Office with a Personnelman, three Yoemen,anda Legal Yoeman. They handle the administrative work of the ship. ' The Medical Representative is responsible under the Executive Officer for the health and safety of the crew. Two Hospitalcorpsmen are assigned to sick bay under him. With four beds and modern facilities, they are able to handle all but the most serious medical cases. The Postal Clerk insures the fast and efficient delivery and posting of the mail so vital to the morale of the crew, especially when away from the United States for extended periods. The Personnel Officer insures that accurate and complete entries are made In the service records of all the crew. In ad- dition, all hands when first reporting aboard the BELLATRIX for duty are assigned to X Division for a minimum of three days.