Columbus (CA 74) - Naval Cruise Book

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CDR M. M. Cain, Jr., Operations Officer operations CDR James T. Alexander, Jr. Operations Officer • • LCJJK Aoiah.n Brower, Communications Officer The men behind, the man

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the whirleybird alights.

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? « — — — — i imiw mm mi mm— JW— FRONT ROW : Waters, K., CWO C.P. Miller, LTJG F.C. Fehl, LTJG F.A. Fenzel, Thompson, F.A.. Jr., ETC, Tiegreen, D.R. SECOND ROW: Oldham, R.C., Graham, L., Nierste, J.R., Hapka, V.E., Cotton, J.R., Home, J.H., Oree, H.J. THIRD ROW: Dionisio, D.P., Spignese, S., Jr., Howard, W.J., Stone, E.R., Jr., Williams, D.R. LTJG Fehl LTJG Fenzel This division aboard ship exists for the sole purpose of keeping all electronics equipment in operating condition. Being one of the smallest divisions on the ship, it has a strong link of unity among its men. and the feeling of can do stands out. The OE division consists of two main working groups, Communications and Search. Communications, as its name implies, deals with communication equipment, transmitters and receivers playing the leading roles, where effective communication from ship to shore and ship to ship is the primary objective. Search, on the other hand, is the Radar Repair crew which keeps the ship ' s invisible seeing eye in peak operating condition to obtain knowledge of objects which may range from fishing boats to warships, or from islands and irregularly shaped land masses to a floating iceberg. Although OE division comprises less than twenty men, it carries quite a load of responsibility for so small a group.