Flint (AE 32) - Naval Cruise Book

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If it doesn ' t work, fix it yourself. (KTSA Beaver) ET3 McCord ETSN Beaver •n Electronic Technicians The smallesl group of highly trained experts can be found in the Electronic Technician rating. ET ' s form the remainder of 01 di- vision. They are responsible for the maintance and repair of all radar and radio com- munications equipment aboard. Any time a piece of gear goes down , the ET ' s get up and work until the gear is operating correctly again. A seldofnly seen sight. Herb squared away. (ET2 Metoyer) Dear Mom Dad, Having fun. please send money. (ET3 McCord)

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051 Hamilton 052 Deaver 0S2 Miller 083 Rarey 0S3 Worthinglon OSSN Heyden Looking down upon the world (0S2 Miller) Operation Specialists Operation Specialist (OS ' s) operate and interpret information received from radar. Radar is an electronic de- vice to determine the presence and lo- cation of an object. Radar is invaluable in navigation and maneuvering as it is in searching for and following the movements of other ships. While un- derway, the Combat Information Cen- ter (CIC) is manned constantly by the OS ' s, meaning many long hours of watch demanding prolonged attention and mental alertness. I ' ve heard of going out on a ledge, but this is ridicu Rarey) lous! (OS3 ABOVE: It ' s the masked Mad Chipper and his faithful companion Cordy. LEFT: Well, what do you say bud? (OSSN Hayden) I want you to join the U.S. Navy (0S2 Sacks)

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OC DIVISION RADIOMEN The Radiomen of Flint are ex- perts in the field of transmission of electronic signals. Their job re- quires that teletype and trans- mitters be manned 24 hours a day, thereby giving the radio- men long hours and occasionaly port and starboard duty. Look sir, its the new instruc- tions on flashlights. (RM.3 McNi- chiols, LTJG Obuchowski) What do you know. I ' m picking up KMEL. (RMS Leos) CIP.CIP.CIP.CIP. (RMl Bragg) RMl Beck RMl Denton RM.3 Leos And in the third race at Belmont (RM2 Bashor)