Enterprise (CVN 65) - Naval Cruise Book

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The mission of the Weapons Department is to provide all ordnance which may be required by the embarked air wing and for the ship ' s physical security. To accomplish this, the Weapons Department is not only capable of assembling and delivering conventional and special weapons, but also maintains the weapons elevators, ordnance handling equipment, magazines and weapons arsenal. The Weapons Department is divided into five divisions. G-1 Division, the ship ' s armory, maintains magazine trunks, magazines and magazine sprinkler systems and also provides gunners for all underway replenishment evolutions. G-2 Division maintains the ship ' s 1 7 weapons elevators and is responsible for the safe transportation of all ordnance from the magazines to the flight deck according to the daily load plan. G-3 Division, bomb assembly, is responsible for the magazines, the assembly and movement of conventional ordnance at the second deck and hangar deck levels, and for the upkeep of all assigned weapons handling equipment. G-4 Division, air launched missiles, is responsible for the handling, stowage, and maintenance of all air launched missiles and torpedoes aboard Enterprise. W Division is responsible for the assembly, test, stowage, maintenance and operation of the associated test and handling equipment. The Administrative Office of the Weapons Department is comprised of two distinct branches. The operational branch consists of weapons handling and movement control under the supervision of the Ordnance Officer and the clerical branch under the supervision of the Administrative Officer. The Ordnance Handling Officer acts as overall coordinator between the air wing and the Weapons Department for the scheduling and supervision of ordnance movements reauired to support flight operations and shipboard training evolutions, ana for ordering and reporting the expenditure of all munitions. The Weapons Officer, known as the Gun Boss, is responsible for the operational and administrative aspects of all shipboard weapons evolutions. Major weapons evolutions are coordinated by the Ordnance Officer and the Ordnance Handling Officer. Stored ordnance is broken out from magazines, assembled, and transported to forward and aft transfer areas by G-1, G-3 and G-4 Divisions. C-3 Division coordinates and controls the receipt and transfer of ordnance in the transfer areas. Ordnance is then sent by weapons elevators to the flight deck where G-2 Division personnel assure its control and transfer to the various squadron ordnance handling personnel. Squadron personnel install the ordnance in or on their various aircraft for delivery on target. During the last training cycle prior to the deployment, the men of the Weapons Department demonstrated their expertise by achieving grades of outstanding during the weapons training exercise (WEPTRAEX), mine readiness certification inspection (MRCI), and Operational Readiness Evaluation (ORE). lAPONS CDR R.J. STILLWAGON, USN Weapons Officer

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