Enhance (MSO 435) - Naval Cruise Book

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Operations Department Whether it be bearing, range, CPA , -. -,., -,, - , or turn 090, closed up , this is the language of the Operations Department. From the radar antenna, high on the mast to the sonar dome deep in the hull, the Combat Information Center keeps its eyes ' open for air, surface and underwater movements.5The Radio Gang and Electronics Technicians keep their ears tuned for the dits and dahs with a myriad of transmitters, receivers and teletypewriters, sometimes able to sean half the world with a vast Naval Communications network. While up on the open bridge as the quartermasters are busily assisting the navigator in selecting and setting down safe courses for passage, the signalmen are keeping a wary eye on the flagship, waiting for the word to be passed along 1122? Signal light, flag hoist and semaphore flags. Herein lies-the function of the Operations Department as pictured above, and that is basically to gather in all avail: ie information, digest it and deliver it to all areas of the ship, so that the ENHANCE may-knov' een, where and by what means her job is to be done. But least we forget those who bandage 0' ds, cure our colds and soften our hangovers, and those who keep our service records, ar our pay checks and issue our mail, we must remember that the hos- pital corpsmen and -'e an essestial part of the Operations Department. These men of sick bay and the sh1p's X 1 more of the many teams that make up this varied organization, ,, commonly called

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Damage Control Officer Ensign S.C. LARSON graduated from California State Polytechnic College, San Luis Obispo, California in June 1964 with a B.S. in Industrial Engi- neering. I-Ie was graduated from OCS in December 1964 with the rank of Ensign. After attending various Navy schools, ENS LARSON reported aboard ENHANCE in March 1965 . as DCA. ENS LARSON was suddenly transferred to another ship in the division While returning from WEST- PAC. Engineering Officer LTJG H.S. TEMPLE graduatedfrom Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in June 1963 with a B.S. in Business. Attending OCS, he was commissioned Ensign in November 1963. After brief schooling in Charleston, S.C., LT JG TEMPLE reported aboard ENHANCE in February 1964 as En- gineering Officer. In May 1965, he was promoted to LTJC. -

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