Columbus (CG 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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l I Good eyes and sensitive ears, and the ability to communicate, these are 0 H 'S 'facilities every warship must have. To help serve these functions, we have a large and varied array of electronics equipment, which, unfortunately, will not work indefinitely of its own accord. The members of OE Division are all elec- tronic technicians, who tweak and coax, fix and tune, and sometimes curse electronic equipment. Being an electronics technician is easy and hard, re- warding and frustrating. It is bending the plate of a capacitor a little, and having a transmitter suddenly come to life. It is climbing the mack to listen for the elusive noise that one of the rotating antennae is making. It is wonder- ing why that switch was not on the blueprint. It is lying on your back and trying to solder an almost inaccessible wire onto an almost inaccessible ter- minal in the back of a repeater in the half light of CIC. It is having the Com- mander ask When will it be fixed? when you aren't quite sure what's wrong with it yet. It's testing a tube, and being dissappointed when it's good, or look- ing for hours for those last few hard-to-come-by decibels of gain. Finally, it is knowing that if something worked before, you can make it work again. If you have any radar, communications, identification, navigation, or countermeas- ures gear that doesn't work, come and see us. We do good work, at very OE DIVI IO' CWO-2 J.W. Bradley l E i Back Row Left to Right: SN K. Arseneau, CWO J. Bradley, ETN3 D. Sanders, ETR3 J. Hyer, ETN2 D. Peters, ETN3 A. Seats, ETNZ H. Zegler, ' ETN3 D. Reynolds. ETN3 J. Miller, ETR2 T., Cfeis, ETN3 T. Darnall, ETR2 B. Petrie, ETC V. Viarengo, ETC H. Belfihy. ETCS R- Miller- Front Row: ETNSN J. Grosvenor, SN R. Rebholz, ETN3 T. Kautz, ETR2 R. Rhodes, ETN3 L. Suchsland, ETN2 N, Freisitzer, ETN3 L. Anthony, ETN2 J. Gannon. 'Y V 4 'ff - N... l l 1 4 I w l H ll w w nl v' It , rg .. is Q ' ,ig p K .. .. if' elim ww ' ' 2, ,... . i ee.. 1 J .r ' J., ., . . . 'g ' sr ? .V 4- g , A W, f v iii'i if , l.

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GI DIVISIO V L In an environment of red lights, radar repeaters, colored status boards, and radio circuits, a world where the sun's movements go unheeded, the men of OI Division maintain a continuous watch designed to supply the ship with all available l tactical and operational information. LTJG D.T. Linscott Back Row Left to Right: RD3 A. Turnbaugh, RD3 W. Barker, SN G. Thielfoldt, RD3 B. Thielfoldt, RD2 S. Halverson, RD3 R. Baker, RD3 H- Rothermich, RDSN R. Baker, SN R. Watkins. Middle Row: LTJG D. Linscott, RD2 K. Hebrew, RM3 V. Neunaber, RD3 P. Hughes, SN C. Pate. RD3 R. Kline, RD3 T. Tate, RDSN A. Ritzinger, RD2 H. Goodell, RDC C. Koke. Front Row: RD3 R. Taylor, RD3 J. White, RD2 W. Handy, RDP K. Peabody. RD3 F. Liggett, RD2 C. Haines, AG3 T. Vickers, RD3 M. Terry, RDSN W. Skinner.

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