Dahlgren (DLG 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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E DIVISION The E in E Division meant anything, but easy from June to December of 1974. The four rates in this division turned to throughout this pe- riod. The ET ' s work was reputedly never done. Ask any DAHLGREN ET and he ' ll tell you Sure it gets done. Always between the hours of 2200 and 0500. Radio, radar, crypto, loran, omega, IFF, closed circuit TV and lots of asso- ciated equipment all belonged to someone else to operate and the ET ' s to fix. The ten ' s down. The repeaters on the bridge show a 400 yard difference between each other. Check the output on the LT-1. Got no video on the IFF. So it was for the ET ' s. The EW ' s had it a little better. The question, Have you got anything at 035? either received a dozen valid replies because of the properties of the ESM gear or elicited the response We ' ve got nothing. The gear ' s down. Operating and maintaining their highly complicated equip- ment, they were constantly plagued by the unavailability of parts. The ship ' s only journal- ist, with a little help from his friends, supplied the crew with the cushion they needed to sur- vive the tedium of the cruise-the tube! A bet- ter idea than the CCTV System the Navy will never find. Impossible to do without, the Inte- rior Communication men ran the ship ' s audio entertainment system as well as maintained the gyros, interior telephone system, a myriad of other equipment and provided much needed shore telephone service in each port. Hard workers, every one.