George Washington (CVN 73) - Naval Cruise Book

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PN2 Todd Waiters PN3 Sean Bombard PN3 Marshall Boney PN3 Christopher Cowgill PN3 Jeffrey Dickson PN3 Timothy Eickstacdt PN3 Steve Hager PN3 Luis Hernandez PN3 Michael Jordan PN3 Hector Miecznikowski PN3 Jerome Owens PN3 Tim Pipes PN3 Leroy Pruitt PNSN Nathaniel Ball PNSN Robert Boyd PNSN Joshua Dworak PNSN Steven Kelley PNSN James Klinger PNSN Robert Martinez SN Mark Cephus 274 ADMIN

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X-2 Division PNI(SW) Eric Miller PNI(SW) John Nemitz PN1 Chris Stewart PN2 Prostan Pactanac The ship's Personnel office provided a myriad of personnel services to the 5.500 member crew of George Washington and its embarked air wing. This dedicated and hard working group of young professionals formed the “Fleet’s Finest Personnel Office and constantly implemented innovative ways of completing their tremendous workload. Whether answering questions from newly reporting personnel or those detaching, processing thousands of leave papers and Good Conduct medals, issuing hundreds of new ID cards or performing daily maintenance on 2.800 service records, they always proved up to the task. This 24 hour a day operation was always abuzz with activity. Consistent with GW’s reputation as the “ship of choice” for implementing new state-of-the-art technology, the Personnel Office deployed with the Navy’s first at sea computerized ID Card system and put it through the paces while providing valuable feedback information to the program’s sponsors. With the addition of the Source Data System, pay and personnel actions were transmitted via message which led to significantly improving the time it took to get official records updated and pay entitlements in the hands of their shipmates. As has become the norm on GW, the Personnel Office crew consistently displayed a “can do attitude and were al ways willing to “go the extra mile” for their shipmates.

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X-3 Division The mind is a terrible thing to waste, and seeing to it that crew members' brains were put to good use was the job of the personnel of the ship's Educational Services Office (ESO), or X 3 division. The best ESO team in the Atlantic Fleet provide the best crew in the Atlantic Fleet every opportunity to further their academic skills and expand their minds. The ESO administered over 1300 Navy Wide Advancement Exams, and provided thousands of required rate-training manuals. Another service offered was the means for Sailors to work toward a college degree while deployed. More than 700 crew members took advantage of the various courses offered through the Program for Afloat College Eg Both instructor based courses as well as a new corr ner-active course, were offered. The DANTES College Level Examination Program (CLEP) and DANTES Standardized Sui, Tests were popular and over 400 were administered. Additionally, as the authonty on programs leading to a commission. the ESO assisted dozens of crew members in preparing applications for possible selection into various officer programs. Whatever the goal, the ESO team provided every crew member the assistance necessary to quench their thirst for knowledge.