Ranger (CV 61) - Naval Cruise Book

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ORDINANCE Chief among the diversions that make simply walking down a Ranger passageway an adventure are zed-shirted trolls pushing little one armed carts at breakneck speeds. Furiously back and fllflhw from the forward assembley area Qclevery disguiseg as a messdeckj to after elevators, the men division race their snazzy 12 Baker carts Nl 0 small scale Grand Prix. . , Some 77 strong, they are the intermediate Stait between storage and bomb arming on the Ftghldec ' Not all of them are cart pushers-some are dn attachers, others rocket assemblers, while' llfew are bomb examiners. On the Fight deck, lf59Up1.lh?' inhabit an assembley area known, appfoprwtelk- enough, as the 'abomb farm . The final Stage Zn arming is done by the squadron ordnafwe men. the plane, but all the lifting, lugging, 0 until then is done by G division. , not Their tasks would be merely dilficult were none for the inconstancies of the daily strike plan- b are way or another, a hundred tons of bflm ber dropped on North Vietnam, but the exact num be of types-from 250 to 2000 p0lfndQf5'canhed changed up to 20 times before the strike 15 Www trium,Ph5....UJ nd sweatwg Yet, G division persevers...even . the the weekly disease that always cripplesG divisl vators strikes mysteriously. Agflm elevators are down.

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