California (CGN 36) - Naval Cruise Book

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4 CALIFORNIA soiled from Chose Bonku OcTober 3rd To rendezvous vviTh over 50 novol uniTs from RorTugol, lToly, Turkey, ond The UniTed Kingdom. For The nexT Ten doys CALIFORNIA ocTed os on escorT for This impressive gciThering of NATO ships. CALIFORNIA defended The ships ogoinsT simuloTed oir oTTocks flown by The US Air Force ond from simuloTed submorine oTTocks by vorious US ond ollied submorines. A key elemenT in our successful compleTion of The exer- cise vvos our obiIiTy To deTecT The simuloTed enemy ORANGE forces before They inTercepTed The ships. The SRS-48 long ronge rodor, moinToined by FTIVI2 RoberT Keck, FTIVI2 Dorrell FoIIeTT ond FTM3 Joseph lVlcOonoId performed superbly ollovving CALIFORNIA missile boTTery under The conTrol of FTIVIC Russell lnlollovvood To simulofe engogemenTs of oircrofT OT moximum ronge. OperoTions DeporTmenT personnel coordinoTed The defense of The enTire fleeT. OS2 STephen Eosley, OS2 Oomenic Ropsodore, OS2 TimoThy lVlinor ond OSSN Oerold Rlonk os- Novol TocTicol OoTo SysTem INTDSD Trock lf2:'1x V i Supervisors performed The exTremely difficulT Tosk of mciinToining on up To The minuTe Trock of every oircrofT so ThoT The Admirol emborked in USS NIMITZ could besT decide how To employ his forces. Our oir inTercepT con- Trollers, OSC Ifdvvord BryonT, OSI Chorles I-lerringTon ond OS2 KenneTh Sloope Worked oround The clock guiding The ships ComboT Air RoTrol ICAPI of F4 l3honTom ieT fighT- ers from USS NIIVIITZ To over 1100 inTercepTs. All The OS ond EW personnel performed excellenTly for long hours doy ond nighT providing eorly worning ond Trocking infor- moTion To The ships ond To The fIeeT. . I ' AT The some Time, The Sonor crew under The Ieodership of STGI Dovid Genevicz ond STGI Jomes Cliburn seorch- ed The depThs of The lVlediTerroneon for ORANGE sub- morines. When one was discovered, AnTi-submorine RockeT IASROCD ond Torpedo crevv's Ied by OIVITCS Richord Dow ond TMI Ron Eller sprong info ocTion To deliver insTonT simuloTed oTTocks. ' OT course none of CALlFORNlA's success would be possible vviThouT our relioble NTDS compuTers ImoinToined by OSCS Thomos Anderson ond OSI Worren Mogeel ond excellenT rodor ond rodio equipmenT ImoinToined by OE Division, led by ETC Cloude Nloorel. CALlFORNlA's rodio personnel ore led by RIVIC Bill Wymon ond RIVIC Williom Cosonovo. 'M' 'f-um , . v gi 1 r 71 X 'S gtg., fs. ,..Li..B,?a, .Mrs-I M . , I if 1. 2.