Maury (AGS 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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OE DIVISION This OE Division, composed of Radar men and Electronic Technicians. The Radarmen are concerned with the safe navigation of the ship when near land and the plotting of other ships to calculate how close they'll come to our ship, They also handle the all-important job of keep- ing in touch with the soundboats when they are surveying. The ET 's are a most important group of men. They are tasked with servicing all of the shipboard electronic equipment which consists mainly of communications gear and radar components. Also, since the systems of surveying are primarily electronic in nature, the job of maintain- ing the survey equipment in a high state of performance is theirs. This function is vital to the mission of the MAURY. Al- though the ET 's are pretty good at trouble- shooting, estimating the time of repair on a piece of gear is difficult because of the many variable incremators in the circuits. When WO Olander, our Electronics Materiel Officer, passed the Soundboat Test he became MAURY'S first Warrant boat officer. -o - A -sv 5 l . I A1 3' Q M W M.,--1'- ' How am I going to get out there? Q pr I