- W ' -- , . V A , . QPE1-QATIQNS DEPARTME Throughout the deployment, while the task group ranged across the Mediterranean,TOPEKA had hundreds of committments and the complex requirements ofa large combatant to meet. These include everthing from being in the right place at the right time for a sched- uled exercise, to maintaining and making use of the many electronic equipments that are installed on board, to keeping up to date the hun- dreds of publications that govern the ship's operational and readiness requirements. And for these and other important reasons, the Ope' erations Department is cohstantly busy. During normal operations, as TOPEKA moves across the sea, the surface searchgradar in combat information center picks up a contact many minutes before even the perched lookouts could possibly spot it. As the contact moves across the radar scope, it is plotted and its course and speed and how close it will pass to us is determined. Now the Officer of the Deck on the bridge knows what to expect, and where to look for the contact, and he can intelligently iudge whether no not that contact will interfere with safe navigation of the ship and whether or not he will have to take action. And then, as the ship appears, it turns out to be a Russian mer chant vessel. What is the correct reporting procedure? Should it be photographed or investigated? Operations will know. And anti-air or submarine warfare: Operations has the radars and sonar equipment to enable TOPEKA to fulfill her mission in these areas and to coor- dinate her weapons systems with her detection and evaluation devices. Thus does the Operations Department bring to bear the many and varied warship capabilities of TOPEKA,
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