Nimitz (CVN 68) - Naval Cruise Book

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ADMINISTRATIDN DEPARTMENT The seven divisions of Nimitz' Administrative Depart- ment have been heavily involved with virtually all aspects of life aboard ship this cruise. All the work performed leads toward improvement of day-to-day lives, enhancement of morale and quality management support for the ship. X-I Division includes the Captain's Office, Print Shop, Chaplains Office and Post Office. The division prepared over 700 End of Cruise Awards to Nimitz' top performers, provided printing service for four change of command ceremonies and daily newspapers for the crew while un- derway and accounted for more than a million pounds of mail this cruise. X-2 Division, including the Administrative and Personnel Offices, manages the department and provides manage- ment expertise across a broad spectrum of personnel mat- ters. X-3 Division includes the Ship's CPO compartment cleaners and CPO mess workers. One permanently as- signed Chief Petty Officer supervises the ever transient fifteen member division. Each department assigns men to assist for ninety days. X-4 Division includes the Legal Assistance Office and Discipline Office. The combined offices process hundreds of wills, powers of attorney, personal claims, foreign claims, Courts-Martial and non-judicial proceedings. X-5 Division, Special Services, is in charge of all tours, the Ship's recreational equipment, two gymnasiums and a sauna. The division is also responsible for the ship's Wel- fare and Recreation Fund and the Special Services Gear Locker. X-6 Division includes the combined efforts of Public Af- fairs and Media. Both offices present tours and visits to the public as well as provide entertainment for the crew through daily newspapers, familygrams, Cruisebook and port visit guides. Personnel assigned to the Master-at-Arms Division are the Ship's policemen. They maintain order and security throughout the ship. 94

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X-1 Division is comprised of the Captains Office, Post Office and the Print Shop. H I I The Captains Office provides direct administrative sup- port to the Commanding Officer. ln addition, the Captain s Office maintains officer records, controls incoming and outgoing ships official correspondence and classified ma- terials. Unique to the Captains Office is the Word Processing Center. WPC, referred to as the Annex , is the office where thousands of rough drafts of Nimitz Instructions are smoothed and written. The men of the Post Office handle the morale enhancing tasks of processing incoming and outgoing mail. More than one million pounds of mail has been accounted for this cruise. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of mail re- ceived this cruise was flown onboard by helicopters and Carrier Onboard Delivery QCODJ aircraft. The postal clerks worked day and night to maintain the flow of information between the crew and loved ones. They sold forty thousand dollars worth of money order sales and two hundred ten thousand dollars in postage, package handling, and processing of certified, insured and registered mail. Q . , The Print Shop is manned by trained Lithographers. They produced over 3,750,000 copies of high quality pro- ducts such as the Plan of the Day, Flight Plan, Green Sheets and the Ship's Newspaper as well as Ships direc- tives and operations orders. The Print Shop operates 24 hours a day with three eight hour shifts. Several rooms were overflowing with paper in November, however, today they stand empty as silent sen- tinals to the tremendous flow of paperwork. LT A. Jordan CWO3 C. Lichtenhan LIC R Crain Pcc H. Kirk YNcs E. Lynch Pc1 A. cofdova PC1 J. Ramos YN1 W. Rice YN1 A. Willis i.4 96 Ll2 W. Leland Ll2 R. Shaffer PC2 A. Solomon . l Ll3 w. Bennett Pcs se. Brown YN3 R. Fowler J, . .-ff.,f.s.ss,....,.,.,:-g ..,. .,,:.. 'JB nn-V., DVC, c.:-,,s...,A,,,.-,.. r ,., ,.-3.21. A I . A . f ., , .