John F Kennedy (CVA 67) - Naval Cruise Book

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CS CS is a small difvisionof 23 men, including our petty officers and chiefs. Our main fob is to send and receifue 'visual traffic. But we also report to the Officer of the Deck all surface contacts. When not on an .actual deployment we do not have a really large amount of traffic, but once a cruise begins our work increases greatly. My iob, and really thejob of each man in the di-vision, is to be able to send and recewe messa es by any of three methods: flashing light, semaphore, or gag hoist. We stand 24 hour watches in port and at sea. Our work area is up about as high as you normally go on the ship. From our perch on the island we are able to see in ang direction. Now, a lot of peoiple think it would be nice to wor where there is plenty of fres air and sunshine. And it is. Except when it's raining or snowing or real cold. I think most of us like our iob, though. Qur chiefs, difvision officer and petty officers all help us quite a bit. In a way, the Signalman rate is hard to learn and unless you really want to learn it, you'll nefver be able to tell a dit from a dah . . . much less be able to make a word out of them. Then there are 62 different flags to learn, plus learning the letters of the alphabet in semaphore. I would say that most of us want to learn the rate though, because the guys that were learning last year, are doing it t is year. Lonnie Ray Miner SM SN CS Difvision Ozark, Arkansas

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