Reasoner (DE 1063) - Naval Cruise Book

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OPE RATIO DE PART I LT. E. C. Mick McDonough. USN X X x . x ffysugjjf'fs-,,sj,fS0sf.ff,X' S gjwiy wash ' ff wg A5 2'sw,!,Xx7 f f J 1' 2 f 2 .- ff X f f r f v XX 2 .QQ Q , X ,ASQ Ci' ji Sm ,, f f X f f T f 0 ' f f qt W f -44: f , , , ,. .1 f f W Long before the engineers light fires or the gunners load the mount, the Ops Department personnel are busy planning and arranging the next days, weeks, months operations. Time, place, distance, mission, task force organization, electronics policy, communications procedures, frequencies, and intelligence briefs, all must be fully researched and exactly incorporated into the ship's schedule. Once the ship sails, the men of the operations department involve themselves in a 24-hour a day struggle to properly collect, evaluate, and disseminate the information flying between the units of the force. This type of daily grind absolutely taxes a mans mental capacities to the fullest. During this deployment the momentary ex- hilarations of these operations were seperated by long hours of continual waiting for REASONER to be called. When the call came, the men who you see on these pages. the laughing ones, the ones making the most of a few spare minutesg these men went about their job under all types of pressure in a remarkably professional manner making the brains of the ship function and contributing their part to the success of the deployment..

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