Lloyd Thomas (DDE 764) - Naval Cruise Book

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The Radio Gang , Quartermasters' Gang , and Ship's Office Gang all are part of the Q Division and serve a very important function in the ship's operations. The Radiomen receive and transmit all CW radio traffic in addition to routing it to the persons concerned. The Quartermasters serve the same function with visual traffic in addition to their navigational responsibilities. The Ship's Office force handles all inter-command correspondence in addition to court-martial records, ship's logs, liberty cards, personnel records, and any other odd jobs you can think of ....

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The Supply Office is divided intobtwo sections, the Storekeepers and the Disbursing Clerks, There are five storekeepers to handle the order- ing and purchasing of all food supplied, stores and spare parts that are used aboard. The three Disbursing Clerks take care of all Pay records, computing pay, paying for travel and other Public Vouchers and handle all money matters concerning the ship. There are three corpsmen to take care of all the aches and pains on the Lloyd Thomas. They also administer all shots, blood tests and what other tests need to be taken. The corpsman is on call any hour of the day or night, it may be for only an aspirin, yet it could be and is quite often more serious. These men have to be very Capable and alert for all emergencies. The Laundry is in operation twenty four hours a day, for six days a week. The four laundrymen do all the enlisted men's laundry, as well as the officers' and chiefs'. The pressing of all chiefs' and odicers' uniforms are taken care of by them also. No matter how rough the sea may be the laundry operates. There are eight cooks to handle the feeding of three squares a day for the crew. A chief is in charge of the galley and he and his crew make the menus, prepare and supervise the serving of food at all meals. The Bakers make all the desserts whether it is pie, pudding or what have you. All bread is baked by them. These two men usually do their work during the night. Seven Stewards Mates take care of the officers mess and staterooms. They are subject to call at any time of the night or day. Most of their cooking is done in the ship's galley and served from the Officers' Pantry. Many fancy dishes are prepared by these capable men.

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Combat can be the quietest or noisiest spot on the ship depending on whether Combat is ahead of the situation or vice versa. The latter very rarely happens, of course, due to the high degree of pre- paredness and training of Combat per- sonnel. Combat is responsible mainly for the collection, evaluation, display, and dissemination of all combat informa- tion received by voice radio, radar, or other means. The Electronics Technicians, better known as the intelligentsia as long as the gear is working and lunkheads when it is not, are the boys responsible for the proper operation of all loran, search radar, and radio gear on board. Their job requires a longer period of training than any other job on the ship. Going down to Sonar is like stepping into another world with scopes, knobs, gear of all shapes and strange noises coming out of a loud speaker. It's hard to remember an operation without sonar being right in the middle of it. When that old familiar sound is heard General Quarters, General Quarters, all ASW teams man your stations , it means there's a submarine' out there and the Sonarmen have to find it and sink it. Many times when the ship is on ASW operations with submarines, the ping jockeys have to man their stations for as long as eight hours at a clip. This gang has made quite a record for the ship by making the high score of 93W at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.. ' Y .....1l