Renshaw (DD 499) - Naval Cruise Book

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W ,il Radios s three senior PO S from the left are Wilson, RM1, Nash, RM1 and Zink, ' ' RM3. Left, Ah, the joys of mess cooking. , Newcomb, SMSN. R Visitors to the RENSHAW'S radio central, where all the transmitters and receivers are located, are dumbfounded by the small space in which these people work. The job of getting messages out to various units at sea and ashore leaves the problem of space, however, far behind. There is too much to do to think about ten extra square feet. Radiomen tear information off teletype machines, much like those used by radio and TV stations to copy news service broadcasts, and make paper copies for the persons who need to know. They set up voice radio equipment for the bridge or the combat information center and then make that final adjustment to get the garble from the voice coming from the other ship. At times, Radio central is a total uproar of activity. Other times it is calm and the radiomen can take a deep breath and relax. But always there looms behind them the awesome fact that the ship is next to blind without the information they collect and disseminate. As with the tasks of all other destroyermen, theirs is a 24 hour plus job. Only absolute heads-up performance is tolerated. The reason is obvious enough. ,X . c. From left, Potter, RM3, RMSN's Walters and Crabb. At left Chief Signalman Jore mans - the 12-inch light.

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I w-J' Radio Runs Un Split Shift The primary tasks of OC division are communications and navigation. Without communications in the fleet, a ship at sea is virtually separated from the outside world. It is the duty of the personnel in the division to maintain continuous radio and visual contact with activities ashore and units at sea. Navigation, of course, aids the ship in maintaining its geographic position. The responsibilities of communications falls primarily on the radiomen and signalmen. Flashing light, semiphore and flag hoist are the means by which signalmen transmit and receive information. Radiomen use various electronic equipment to obtain greater ranges. The job of the quartermasters is two fold, one, the main- tenance of a constant navigational plot and two, keeping continuous logs or history of the ship. The postal clerk completes the communications picture. This popular member of the crew Qwould you believe a hero 'Pl enforces U.S. postal regulations on all personal mail to and from the crew. He sells stamps, weighs packages and consoles jilted lovers who are found hanging around the mail shack. Jefferies, PC3, poses on bridge He was the star of the mail helo detail, getting directly beneath ,L the heliocopter's whirling ,ui blades to rescue mail bags full ' of bills, dear John letters, etc. From Left, Jore SMC Fissel, QMC, ENS Ringler, Comm Officer . l and Mathews, RMC

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-tl . N N 'fs 'i 4 rf Radiomen Faustman, RMSN, Smith, f RM3, and Christenson, RMSN, on . their freshly painted 01 level. Radlds Query' RM3' 66 K 'Ol'!w'in gqu... M .gg Q fs I' 4pi 'i'i C f . V-f- 1 RCU I lf . X, '99 Crabb, SN, turns too on screen protectlng antenna. Sammons, RM3. Harris, RM3, relaxing. A-vi