Gridley (DLG 21) - Naval Cruise Book

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E DIVISION E Division, made up of the Electrician ' s Mates (EM) and the Interior Communication Electrician ' s Mates (IC) is the power company, telephone company, appliance repair shop, heavy electrical repair shop, electromechanical repair shop, and movie theatre operator of the ship. The EM ' s take care of the lighting, power, degaussing, ventilat ' on, general electrical repair, etc. , as well as inspection for electrical safety and the repair of many miscellaneous electrical appliances. The IC ' s wander through a wide variety of equipment, including, but not limited to, gyrocompass systems, automatic and sound powered telephones, wind indicatiug equipment, ship ' s speed indicating equipment, tachometers, public address systems, movie projectors and other equipment. Electrical equipment being to a large extent trouble free, repair work is seldom repetitious. This means that 60 of the jobs done are new to the men doing them. Blue prints and instruction manuals provide required maps for finding a path through a wild maze of cable and wiring. Various types of test equipment are utilized to evaluate equipment functions, and in determining exactly what is wrong. A knowledge of mechanics, electrical and electronic theory is a prime requirement for these men, necessitating a large amount of studying on the job and off. EMI JOHNSON EM2 BIRDSONG EM2 BROBST EMI CASTA ICl BEAR EM2 OENTILUOMO rCl NEUMIESTER km;) hood lC:i SIMONS IC:i URBAN ICFN NOKES FN MORRISON ICEN SCHENEMAN ICEN l.EISER km:! DAVIS iri ' -N ALCARA EMi; IIOCKMAN IC3 DYER em:! RAPO .A EN ASTIN EM:i NICHOLSON

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B DIV. OUR IDOL BTl MC KNIGHT BTl HOLLAND BTl MINDERLITER BT2 MC COLLOUGH OUR FEARLESS LEADERS A GRIDLEY Boiler Tender is one of the hai ' dest working sailors in the Navj ' . He works in the finest, cleanest, and best operating fire rooms in the fleet, and why ?-because he has made them that way. His on- watch hours are long and it seems as though his work is never clone. Although pulluig into port means liberty for most sailors, to a BT this period means that a boiler must be cleaned and repair work undertaken that is impossible to accomplish at sea. A Boiler Tender is in every sense of the word a teclinician. Maintaining and operating automatic controls is a large and time-consuming part of his job. To illustrate the scope of a collateral task, the refueling of the ship, the personnel of B Division took on over 6 1 2 mUIion gallons of fuel oil diu-mg the cruise. In spite of Uiis enormous work load, the BT ' s have found time to make GRIDLEY ' s fire rooms the sharpest looking in the Pacific Fleet, but don ' t take their word for it - a quick trip through a GRIDLEY fire room is proof enough that the division ' s work is well done. 12