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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ANI AM Division's primargiyl function is to supply the Air Wing with missiles 24 hours a. y. It also supplies Point Defense with missiles for the missile launchers. Our division is separated into three basic crews: 111 the Magazine crew, C22 the Hangar Deck crew, and 132 the Flight Deck crew. The magazine crew is the heart of our division. The stow, build- irip, and send the missiles from the magazines to the hangar deck. hey also. test these missiles prior to sending them up to assure that the missiles are operative. The hangar deck crew is somewhat like a mediator between the magazines and the flight deck. They make sure that the missiles reach the flight deck on time. Thelialso have the responsibility of charging nitrogen bottles for t A7 Corsair launchers used to launch t e missiles from the aircraft. The flight deck is the ultimate destination for the missiles. This is the place where I work. Our iob is to make sure that the sggadrons get the missiles and everything necessary to make t m fire. have the responsibility of keeping a og of the number of fli hts that the missiles make. In addition, each of us on the flight ich must know where each missile is located. This is just a small portion of what AM Division actually does. Each man in the division has a iob to do and you can be sure that he knows how to do it. Terrance L. Hayes AO-3 AM Division Mobile, Alabama