Galveston (CLG 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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and the prime contractors to contin- ually make improvements in the de- sign and performance of the overall system. Of the four officers and forty-one enlisted men aboard, the following are the only remaining plank owners: LTJ G Caudry, CWO Velomske, Swies- ford GSC, Harvey GSC, Williams GS1, Smith GS1 and Simmons GS2. Our first division oflicer was LT Clark who later succeeded to Missile Officer. Mr. Clark is now LCDR. LT Bilderback, now serving at White Sands, New Mexico succeeded Mr. Clark. Our pres- ent Division Officer is LTJ G Caudry. Most of the enlisted men in the divi- sion are graduates of a class A and class C school at the U. S. Naval Guided Missile School at Dam Neck, Va. The division is divided up into a day and night crew for each missile check- out area, a crew for the missile fueling stations and a crew for the missile bat- tery shop. Each missile is checked out periodically in order to keep the ship's main battery in a state of combat readiness.

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MISSILE DIVISIQN MISSILE DIVISION HISTORY The Missile Division, originally known as the Fourth Division, is responsible for the maintenange testing, servicing and repair of the Talos missile and associated test equipment, This is accomplished in the two checkout areas in the Missile House, kngwn as Port and Starboard Checkout Area. The missiles are readied for flight in every respect including fuel- ing if required, at Port and Starboard Fueling Sta- tions and installation of freshly processed batteries ile Battery Shop. To aid in the mainte- nance of the missile and associated test equipment, a history of each missile and piece of test equipment is maintained by missile personnel in the Ordnance Technical Library. A missile shoot in general, though appearing simple, is in actuality a highly complex, co-ordinated operation involving many man-hours of preparation by Missile Division as Well as divisions concerned from the Miss with search radars, fire control equipment handling equipment. The success or failure of missile shot is not primarily concerned wit destruction of the target. The amount of expefi and technical data gained through long ran C ' . 0I'd1I1Q' known gg H+D1DYnD+mMno,u enables the NaV and II1iSS1l9 n the enC9 Q9 T

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FM DIVISKQN FM division is the Missile fire control division for the USS GALVESTON. Many of this group WHS involved in the TALOS program long before the ship ' d ' the com- was commissioned, having been traine in ters at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The division is responsible for Operation, maintenance and upkeep of the Tracking Radars, The Guidance Radars, The Computer and the Weapons Direction system of the Talos Guided Mis- sile battery. ln such a complex system much of their work has had to be done utilizing new methods and oftentimes without final manuals on the equipment which meant extremely tedious work of tracing out plex Radars and Compu circuits and many sleepless nights. The work must be very closely coordinated since each unit of the system is tied together by the Missile Computer. Another function of the FM division is Instrumenta- tion and photography, both ofwhich serve the all important function of determining at any time whether the missile system is 'ready to fire. The equipment used by FM division personnel is of the latest design and contains many Electronic circuits + N L 5 S 5 ow DO You FOLD T1-us THlNG?H and ideas not used anywhere else in the nav Th division is composed of some 70 or more F. Y. e technicians and Photographers ire control