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The Bureau of Naval Personnel Career Publication THE BUREAU -OF NAVAL- PERSONNEL CAREER- PUBLICATION- "' . I FEBRUARY 1969 FEBRUARY 1969 Nav-Pers-0 NUMBER 625 VICE ADMIRAL CHARLES K. DUNCAN, USN TheChief of Naval Personnel REAR ADMIRAL M. F. WEISNER, USN The Bureau of Nav- All UANVS al Personnel Career TheDeputy Chief ofNaval Personnel Publication, is published monthly by the CAPTAIN H. W. HALL, JR., USN Bureauof Naval Personnel for the in- AssistantChief forMorale Services formation , and interestof the naval service os whole.o Issuance ofthis publication approved in accordance TABLE OF CONTENTS withDeportment of theNavy Publica- tions and PrintingRegulations, Features NAVEXOSP-35. Opinions expressed ore not necessarily those of theNavy De- Introducing Detachment Charlie:Navy Astronautics Group .................. 2 portment. Reference to regulations, orders and directives is forinformation AboardIntrepid: 100,000th Catapult Launch ........................................ 4 only and does not by publication here- What's That - A Land Catapult? .......................................................... 6 inconstitute authority for action. All originalmoteriol may be reprinted OS NTC Great Lakes: This Is WhereIt All Begins ........................................ 8 desired if proper credit is given ALL E Awards:The Sharpest Ships in Both Fleets ........................................ 10 HANDS.Original articles and informa- tionof general interest may befor- Fleet Citations: The Brave and theGallant ............................................ 12 wordedaddressed to theEditor. ALL They've Seen It: From Elephants in Armor to Firth of Clyde .................. 14 HANDS,Pers GlS, BuPers, Navy De- portment,Woshington, D.C. 20370 (see Flight Deck Boatswain ............................................................................ 16 page 64).DISTRIBUTION: By Section AGs Keep Tabson the Weather ............................................................ 17 B-3202 of theBureau of Naval Person- ne1 Manual,the Bureau directs that Sasebo: A Sample of Navy Family Life Overseas .................................. 18 appropriate steps be tokentoinsure COD Greyhounds .................................................................................... 25 distribution on thebasis of one COPY for each 10officers andenlisted per- sonnel. Departments The Bureau invites requests for addi- Letters to the Editor ................................................................................ 26 tional copies os necessary to comply withthe basic directives. Note that dis- Today's Navy .......................................................................................... 36 tributionis based onthe authorized Decorations and Citations ...................................................................... 62 numberof members attached, rather than temporary fluctuatingnumbers. Feature Centerspread TheBureau should be keptinformed of changes in the numberof copies Changes inShip Classifications .............................................................. 31 required. The U.S. Fleet in Silhouette ...................................................................... 32 TheBureau should also be advised if the full number is not received regular- lY. Bulletin Bocrrd Normally copies forNavy activities TraLantLists Changes in Damage Control, FirefightingCourses .......... 43 oredistributed only to those onthe StandardNavy Distribution List in the RSFPP: How to InsureFamily Security Before You Retire ...................... 46 expectation that such activitieswill make furtherdistribution os necessary; ShoreDuty Upcoming Via Seavey A-69 ................................................ 50 where special circumstances warrant What's the SCORE? Nineteen Ratings Now in Program ........................ 52 sendingdirect to sub-octivities the Bureaushould be informed. Why Not Add Gold Stripes to Your Navy Blue? .................................... 54 Distributionto Marine Corps person- For February: It's Tax Check-Up Time .................................................... 59 ne1 is effected by the Commandant US. Marine Corps. Requests from Ma- Area of Korean Waters Defined for USAFE Eligibility ............................ 61 rineActivities should be addressed to the Commandant. PERSONAL COPIES: TaffrailTalk ............................................................................................ 64 This magazine isfor sole by Superin- tendent ofDocuments U S Government Printing Office, WashiAgtk& D.C. 20402. John A. Oudine, Editor Therote for ALLHANDS is 25 cents per copy' subscription price $2.50 a AssociateEditors year, donktic (including FPO and APO address for overseas moil);$3.50 for- G. VernBlasdell, News eign. Remittances should bemode to theSuperintendent of Documents. Sub- Don Addor, Layout 0t Art scriptionsore accepted for one, two or AnnHanabury, Research three years. GeraldWolff, Reserve 0 FRONT COVER: DOWN BELOW-Fireman L. F. Zmorzcinski,USN, operates themain control panel ofthe forward engine room aboard US Wainwright(DLG 28).-Photo by PhotographefsMote 2nd Clws William M. Hopkins, USN. 0 AT LEFT: HIGHEST AWARLLieutenont Vincent R. Capodonno war award'ed, posthumously, the country's highest medal, the Medal of Honor, 7 Jon 1969. He become the second Navy chaplain inhistory to receive the award,and the fwrth Novymon to receive theMedal of Honor for action in Vietnam. Turn to page 37 for a story on Chaplain Capodonno. 0 CREDIT: All photogrophs published in ALL HANDS Magazineare officialDepartment of Defense photos unless otherwise designated. now orbitingthe earth. Every two minutes, each satellite tells its users which satellite itis, what time it is according to its satellite “clock,” and preciselywhere the satellite is at that exactmoment. Aboard ships, acompletely au- tomatic receiver-computer takes over for the navigator. It activates itselfas a satellite approaches,receives the data, com- putes the ship’s navigational fix, and instantly types out the precise longi- tude,latitude and satellite time for the navigator.About all it doesn’t do is handthe fix tothe skipper. The Wahiawa tracking station has two major functions. First, since the ground station is located at a known ’STATION H0USE”Howaii‘s Detachment Charlie keeps constant eye on satellites. position, it can check to see that the satellites passingoverhead transmit thecorrect navigational fix for this comesparamount. have“We son, petty officer in charge of opera- location. the most accuratetime in the Pa- tions, directthe five civilian and Since satellites travel morethan cific,” declaredSenior Chief Radar- three military watchstanders.They 18,000 miles anhour, small errors man J. R. Averi, assistant officer in workin shifts, keepinground-the- would be multiplied to a proportion charge of Det.C. clock surveillanceon the incoming that would make satellite navigation satellite transmissions. useless. These checks, on every pass, N ATOMIC oscillator atthe com- ChiefAveri explained that aver- eliminate this potential for error. A plex provides the perfect rhythm age satellite life is about two years. to operatea huge Naval Observa- “After that, unstable power supplies HE SECOND function of the station tory clock that is accurate to within usually render them useless and they Tisto provide data for headquar- two-millionths of a second per day. become space garbage.” ters to compute the future orbits of It stands almost seven feet tall and But occasionally, worn-out satel- is nearly as broad. Mr. R. J. Ham- lites somehow rejuvenate themselves mann, a retired Marine who lives in and begin transmitting garbled mes- Kaneohe,Hawaii, is chargedwith sages that interfere with the signals the maintenance of both the clock of operational satellites. New equip- i and the receivers. mentbeing supplied to the Hawaii group Leading Petty Officer James De- station will enable it to turn off the laverson, a radioman 2nd class, and the satellites. “hotline”transmits maverick satellites, endingtheir A Radannan 1st Class Donald Tumbli- data to Point Mugu five times faster transmissions. than a teletype. In 1967, the Vice Presidentau- SUPER TIME-Atomic clock provided by “You get only what you put into Novo1 Observatory provides occurote thorized the use of the Navy naviga- it” is a bromide that applies to the timekeeping system. tion satellite system bycommercial satellite business most aptly. The sat- users on an unclassified basis. ellites canbroadcast only whathas Lt. Ramos and Chief Averi agreed been programmed into their memory thatthere are wide commercial ap- banks. Each bird can accept enough plications of the navigationalaid. data to keepbroadcasting for 16 “Theonly restriction onships that hours. could use the satellites,” Chief Averi Because of this time limit, the said, “is theamount of space on memory bank gets an “injection” of board. If ships have room for the fresh data every 12 hours. The Min- computers, virtually all of them can nesota injection station canfeed use the Navy’s system.” more than a quarter of a million bits Researchers are also workingon of data to a satellite that will enable adaptations of the nautical system it to continue chirping its exact loca- that will be useful in air transporta- tion attwo-minute intervals for an- tion, oceanography, cartography and other16 hours. off-shore oil explorations. “Possibili- So informationgathered in Ha- ties are unlimited,” Chief Averi fore- waii is used to determine just what cast . the satellite should “say” during each -Story by Bill Honerkamp, of those messages. Journalist Seaman,
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