Mataco (ATF 86) - Naval Cruise Book

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Left to Right First Row: Lulow L.L. SN, MANINI L.K. Jr. BM2, Cranford J.E. Jr. GMG2, Earnest J.L. SN, Wood J.T. SA, Palmer R.R. SA, O'Dell R.R. BM2, Brazet, J.L. SA, Lewis, R.H. SA, and Milam W.T. BMI: Back Row Left to Right: Vance L.E. SN, Hamilton A.T. SN, Johnson D.M. SN, Young J.A. SA, Johnson C.C. SA, Cartwright T.L. SN, and Mosca A.C. Jr. SA The Deck Department is the responsibility of the First Lieutenant, under the commanding officer for the supervision of the deck seamanship, operations and maintenance of armament, ordnance equipment of the ship, and for the procurement, handling, stowage and issue of ammunitions and pyrotechnics. J The Deck Department is made up of boatswain mates, gunners mates, and seamen. The evolutions,these men perform include anchoring, mooring, fueling, and replenishment at sea, loading and stowage of cargo, rigging of the ship and tow for towing operations. Maintenance of all running and standing riggingg operate the paint, sail, and boatswains locker, maintain ships boates, davits, weight handling devices, booms and deck winches and painting of deck and ships sides. Also included in their many jobs, boatswains maintain the ships armament and fire control equipment such as smokeless powder samples and magazines. They are also responsible for upkeep and stowage of the ship's diving locker, of all diving and salvage equipment.

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X3 AWK? 3 JB Front Row Left to Right Shonibin J L RM2, Traber O L QMI Graham O L YN3,Young S L SA G1bsonS L SN Kennedy C J HM2 Carrillo A S RDSN Poff J P RMSN Back Row Left to Right, Martin P D SM2, Fulghum, G B RD1, Tandy F J QM2, Kovacich S M Jr RM3 Hawley E R ETR3 Hall R P YN3 and Grimes L D PN3 The Operations gang aboard U S S MATACO QATF 865 consists of highly skilled technic ians This department is responsible for operational committments . Operations has eight separate ratings whose responsi- bilities are: Radiomeng Radio communications, Quartermastersg Navigation and pilotingg Radarmeng Operate our radar system, Electronic Techniciansg maintain electronic equipment, Yeomen gl Personnel- men. A11 administrative duties, Hospital Corpsmeng and sanitation of crew and ship, directly responsible to the Commanding Officer, signalman, all visual communications . At right, Curtis Kennedy HM2 lone member of the ship's medical department administers a shot to Grimes L.D. PN3. J. J-