Leonard Mason (DD 852) - Naval Cruise Book

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y Poorman ' s radar Munoz watching Channel 5 Wright — A long w ay from home When the hell are we gonna secure Pfice — Waddya mean, turn to? Hess, White, Mr. Compau Your Friendly CIC ill IWillll

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BACK ROW. LEFT TO RIGHT: Price, I. C, SA; Everts. W. H.. SA; Hess. L. C. RD3- Coffer E. I.. ET3; Meyer, L. A.. RD3; Williams, C. E., SA; Graham, R. B.. RDSA; Munoz R W RDSN; White, I. A.. SN. FRONT ROW: Murray. L. P., HD3; Sweany. C. D., RD3; Mangham. C. J.. ET2; LT(IG) D. E. Barkkarie: ENS. F. Hundhammer; Watkins. D. D., ET2; Wright, H. T. RD3; Galloway, J. W., ET3. ABSENTEES: Reinerl. G. D.. SN; Wardrupe, E. (n) RDl- Beach M. L.. SN. Q, 01 DIY CIC, Combat Information Center — The eyes and ears of the ship is located in one little 12 ' x 12 ' room packed to the overhead with electronic gear, radarmen, and electronics technicians. The technicians job is to keep every piece of the complicated equipment operating at peak efficiency so that the radarmen can utilize it to their best advantage. Maintaining an up to date navigational picture; keeping on -accurate plot on all contacts, enemy and friendly; course and speed recommendations to put the ship on station; guarding four radio circuits; keeping an up to date status aboard; these are just a few of the routine jobs of the men in the OI division at sea. When maneuvers commence, the job increases many- fold. Mangham and Galloway. There switch in here somewhere. nust be an on-off 22

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R DIVISION BACK ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Zellars, H. E., EM3; Leighty. T. E., MM3; Jones D G EM3- Gillespie, Leo R. A., EM3; Robbins, J. L., FF2; Lynn, R. J.. IC3; Cox, D B., IC3; Erickson, H. A., EM3; Saliba, D. M., IC3. MIDDLE ROW: Lulz, C. T., MR2; Fredson, F. E.. ENI- Johnson D. W., MMC; LTJG E. Ruiz: Gilles, J. L., EMC; Depperman, R. L., EM2; Pugh, B. T MES- Jacobson, A. G„ MM2. FRONT ROW: Jackson, S. B., FN; Soward, J. T., EMFA; Townsel w ' L., FN; Jooslen, L. D., FN; Kooima, J. J., FN; Forster, N. L., IC3; Barton, C. D. FN- Tharp C, I.,- EM3; Tubbs, C. (n), FP3; Terry, T. H., FN. ABSENTEES: Duncan, F. K., FN- Reed h ' (n), FN; Davis, E. D., MEl. r II -r OV R HOmmsSL A division whose motto might well be When in trouble call us, R is the repair division of the ship. The division is made up of men who ore on call at any- time for any job. The faucet drips, call a shipfitter. Burnt out light, get an electrician. No heat, fine some- one from A gang. Phone buzzer out of order, get on IC electrician. Using the machine shop, IC and the shipfitters shop as their bases of operation, the men of R division performed their tasks throughout the ship, from welding stanchions on the forecastle to greasing rudder posts in the fan room, from fixing pumps in the bilges to re- pairing truck lights atop the mast and all jobs in be- tween. Rare indeed is the space aboard ship that has not been occupied by one of these men hard at work. The men of R division can justly claim that they have been a vital part of the machinery that kept the ship in her best possible fighting trim. Tharp, And now we lose the load! 24