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OC DIVISIO FW ENb BOYER Q S INIINJIN X IIUXN il RADIOMEN - The responsibility to provide fad., reliable and secure communications for a warship i I heavy one at best. The movements commitments Bd safety of a ship and her crew depend to a large extent ol how well her Radiomen maintain her electronic lid! with Command and other activities. However this llid dle East deploy ment has placed a burden 0! KOELSCH s Radiomen that a less dedicated Ind professional shack might not have been able to clfry Thev have routinely undertaken communication Rf vices for other ships in company in addition to theiroun Thex have faced a lack of shore support facilities Img distances to communicate over complicated circuit le- quirements heavy traffic loads. They have done an out- standing, job 74 hours a day 4 days a week. SIC'YAL'VII-Y - The Signalmen are responsible for visual communications: flashing light flaghoist and semaphore. Vi hile in the fleet at large visual com- munications may have lost it s once-central position the frequent necessity to curtail electronic transmission plus multi-national operations have made this Middle East deployment a busy one for KOELSCH I Signalmen. They have also played a large part in the collection of visual intelligence. The Signalmen have found that working one day with a l'.S. Pacific Fleet guided missile frigate another day with an Iranian destroyer and talking to a Danish merchantman- ex en a Soviet- on a third. makes for quick growth in ex- perience and skill. 1 it H K ' X Msx PtriL f'El