Lexington (CVA 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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forms The Executive Officer heads LEXINGTON Administration. He is the man who places into effect policies of the Com- manding Officer. ADMIN has under its aegis the library, legal office, personnel office, education and training, hobby shop, athletic gear locker, public information office, public relations olfice, the MAA force, Chaplain's office, print shop, and post office. The LEXINGTON library is a well-rounded power plant of knowledge, containing everything from historical fiction to college texts. The library provides many valuable hours of cost-free entertainment and instruction to the crew. Calling Perry Mason. That is our Legal Officer. He and his staff process disciplinary cases and assist personnel who become involved in civil offenses. Are you going up for rate? Want to learn more about Japan? The E and T Office provides books, pamphlets, and films and administers advancement-in-rating examinations. They also provide high school or college credits through USAFI courses to all Minutemen. The Hobby Shop provides materials, lockers, and working space to model builders, leathercraft experts, and handi- craft doodlers. The Athletic Gear Locker furnishes baseballs, footballs, golf clubs, tennis rackets and other materials to sport enthusiasts. . The jingle of typewriters mingles with the music of the Limelighters and the Kingston Trio as the PIO staff pieces together the daily Minuteman. PIO assists Public Relations in conducting on-board tours and handles the Fleet Home Town News program. They also assemble the mater- ial for the at-sea Voice of the Lexington news broadcasts. Public Relations arranges on-board tours for civilian groups and administers the Handclasp program. PR conducts SCORE program interviews and handles various functions of leadership training. The Chaplain's Office consists of a Protestant and a Catholic Chaplain and their assistants. They conduct Divine Services and provide spiritual counsel. They also arrange excellent guided tours of the various ports of call. The Master-at-Arms Force efficiently polices the ship, keeping a sharp eye on the military conduct and appear- ance of all hands. The MAA Staff helps to conduct orderly pay lines. Print Shop manufactures the daily Minuteman and keeps the presses hot rolling out various forms, signs, pamphlets, and instructions needed. Mail Call -the most welcome sound aboard is the signal that the Post Office crew has been hard at work sorting out the days' mail. The Post Office also sells stamps, postcards, and postal money orders. For quantity of paperwork, Personnel is the place to go. Any change in the status of a crewmember involves this office: checking aboard, leaving the ship, emergency or regular leave, muster reports, change in rate, disciplinary action. If it affects the man, it affects Personnel. The Admin Office itself, together with the Captain's Office, provides the official lines of communication between LEXINGTON and other commands, maintains officer personnel records, and promulgates to the ship as a whole the various instructions and directives received. mr. administration reviews a few of the thousands of directives which affect LEXINGTON. as executive officer, cdr. moore puts into egect the commanding officer's policies. fulfilling the spiritual needs of men at sea is the always rewarding duty of the Navy's Chaplain Corps.

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fitness The Navy takes care of its own is a proud phrase and aptly describes the aim and function of LEXlNGTON'S Medical and Dental Departments. Complete medical facilities are available to every man. A man cannot work efficiently when ill, and if too many men are ill or disabled the iob of this carrier could not be properly carried out. The greatest single project for the medics started at the begin- ning of the cruise and aFfected every man aboard. Overseas shots-seven innoculations against common communicable diseases more prevalent in the East. Coming at the same time as President Kennedy's Physical Fitness Program proved to be poor planning. Remember struggling through push-ups with sore arms? Dangers to men working on a ship, operating around aircraft, and flying aircraft are legion. Everything from cut fingers from slicing potatoes to smashed toes from dropping a bomb shape to serious injury to a ditched pilot. Emergency medical treatment is thorough, fast, round-the-clock. Between the extremes of innoculations and emergency treatments come the bulk of day-to-day operations for our corpsmen. These range from routine physical examination to more spectacular general surgery. Appendectomies, hernias, cyst removal and the like are easily handled. First aid training and sanitation round out Medicals' iobs. The basics of how to react in an emergency and what to do Hrst must be taught to every man. Accidents have a way of happening at the least opportune times and a mans' life can be lost if all the spectators do is wait for the doc. Complete facilities for insuring dental health is the complementary half that rounds out the medical services available to each Min- uteman. Three dentists working full time in three modern chairs backed up by a fine staff of technicians is provided to insure the oral health of Lex's crew. ln addition, the Dental Department maintains an X-ray diagnosis room and a prosthetics laboratory for fabricating dentures. lenberg after seven overseas shots some feel better than others. visiting hours in sick bay.