Independence (CVA 62) - Naval Cruise Book

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- am... QA . 'awp . -.,,-.1 I . , U F , , I I COMCARDIV FOUR STAFF-Sitting: CDR C. F. Weishar, CDR C. E. Waring Jr., CDR W. T. Blakney, CAPT W. E. Donnelly Jr., RADM W. E. Lemos, CAPT W. K, S 'th CDR W. H. Koenig, CDR J. L. Everngarn Jr., CDR R, B, Ward. LCDR J. A. Moore. Standing: LT D. E. Sloan, LT P. H. Benson, LT J. U. Johnson, LT mn , C, W, Williams, LCDR B. P. Peters, LT R. J. Datka, LTJG W. A. Muilnchap, LTJG E. A. Hanson, LCDR I. Krasts, LT J. H. Morris, LTJG J. K. Murphy.

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Ship's Company lt is the men who fly the planes that give this ship its reason for being, it is the others who make sure the reason gets underway. But who are the others ? That man in the big white chair on the bridge, called The Captain ? The gentleman who, from that vantage point, peers down across 80,000 tons of U.S. might and knows it is all entrusted to him? And watch standers-the ones helping to justify that trust. Are they the others ? Executive Officer? Navigator? The seaman at the helm? Who else keeps this ship going? We soon find it difficult to mention everyone. It becomes more practical for us to break down into departments the overall seagoing process of keeping an aircraft carrier underway. Every man on this ship is served by the Administrative and Supply Departments. Everything from mail service to haircuts he gets from Admin or Supply. Helping out the squadrons when their planes break down is the job of Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance, the Air Department, main- tains and operates the equipment that gets the planes off the deck and back down again. Keeping in touch with the outside world is ensured by the Com- munications Department, which handles both visual and electronic messages. By the end of the cruise each of the ship's four shafts will have made some 20-million revolutions. This is but a small fraction of the vital job performed by Engineering. Navigation, while small in numbers of people, has the big job of keeping this ship on track. And Operations, the information-gathering, schedule-coordinating department, handles everything from air intel- ligence, control of external air operations, to meteorology. Ensuring fire power readiness of the ship, Weapons Department keeps the ship's five-inch guns in readiness, provides the Air Wing with ordnance, and conducts all deck seamanship evolutions. The Damage Controll Department, a recent offspring of Engineer- ing, and Medical and Dental Departments all have names that are self-evident: they also have vital roles. These, then, are the others, or what we will call in this section, Ship's Company.