John F Kennedy (CVA 67) - Naval Cruise Book

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EDS EDS CElectromc Data S ystemsf Division is made up of highly skilled 'personnel who. have been trained in the Data Systems Technicians CDSQ field. Our job as DS technicians is to maintain, repair, and operate digital data equipment, such as computers, peripheral. equipment, and data terminal sets. Our division is basically divided into three main groups: C12 those DS personnel working in the Automatic Data Processing IADPJ System, C22 those DS personnel workinlg in the integrated Operational Intelligence Center CIO Cl, and A232 those DS personnel working in the Naval Tactical Data ystems I N TDS 2 area. Those DS personnel working in the ADP area maintain, repair, and- olperate digital data equipment which accurately and rapid y processes data accumulated through the use of the Navy's Maintenence and Material Management C3-MJ Systems. The 3-M system processes information gathered from maintenance action notices and transforms them into permanent records, as well as compiling permanent records and current up- dates of the shipboard supply system inventories. ADP also processes our pa checks and some of the financial records for the disbursing of?ice. In the IOIC area, DS personnel maintain, repair, and operate digital data equipment which helps to process, evaluate, and store the integrated tactical intelligence supplied to naval carrier based strikin forces. This is done with the help of reconnaissance aircra DS personnel in the N TDS area maintain, repair, and operate digital data equipment which comprises part of the automated system of plotting to enable ships to keep abreast of the rapidly changin tactical situations encountered in modern naval warfare. gfhe N TDS area ties together such tasks as helping to control the ship, assigning weapons, and co-ordinating task force operations. M iob is that of a data conversion technician assigned to the N TDS branch of EDS Division I maintain, repair, and clzerate data conversion equipment which converts one type of ta to another. The iob of a DS technician is not often easy and glorified as it may seem on the surface. Granted, our work Ito us at leas? is interesting, fast moving, and often intriguing as wel as fascinating. fPersonally, like my job as a technician and hope to go into a related field when my tour of duty ends. 2 Paul E. Jones DS 2 EDS Division Farmington, New Mexico

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V-1 V-1 Division responsibilities and duties include safe movement of all aircraft on the fligeht deck, proper securing of the aircraft, ogration of aircraft e vators, clearing crashed aircraft from t flight deck and rescue of personnel from aircraft. Normal working hours are unheard of when working on the flight deck. We start working approximately 2 hours before the first launch and quit maybe two hours after the last recovery. Usually this turns into a 1 6 hour day. Everyone knows about the old slogan for mailmen, Neither rain, sleet nor snow. . . The same holds true for the flight deck crew. We don't particularl like to stand out in cold weather when it's raining. I doubt if, any of us can trul say we 100 per cent like our fo , but it does give a feeling ofy accomplishment knowing we are the key to the operation of an aircraft carrier. It's a known fact that they can't operate without us. With the long hours at sea, there should be plenty of liberty in port, but this is not always true. Much of our maintenance work must be done in port. You can bet that the eyes of the ship are always on us, and praise is seldom handed our way. But we find out in a hurry when things aren't running smoothly. Sometimes our solution to this is to eat a bi breakfast hoping that it will somehow make things turn out riglgt. S.P. Strout V-1 Division Belton, S.C.