X-Ray Division Division
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Personnel Man |
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Journalist |
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Lithographer |
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Photographer's Mate |
X-ray Division works in many areas of the ship, and her men deal with many members of the crew each week. Handling the thousands of administrative details needed to run a ship of HELENA's size, their hours are governed by the sudden emergence of mail, courts-martial, advancement in rate, and literally hundreds of other events.
Service records are handled by personnelman, who keep them up-to-date, accurate and complete. PN's also are experts in training and advancement in rate, ready to give helpful advice in planning a naval career.
Lithographers handle the great task of all ship's printing, from the daily Plan of the Day to formal invitations and programs for special visits and ceremonies. The printing machines are heard often in the still of the evening and early morning hours.
Yeomen take charge of officers' records, filing, and ship's correspondence, the latter of which is a whopping job in itself. To yeomen also falls the unpleasant task of preparing for, and recording disciplinary problems.
From the 1958-59 Helena cruise book
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X-RAY DIVISION . . . . .
successful conquerors
of the mountain of paperwork
From the 1958-59 Helena cruise book |
From the 1959-60 Helena cruise book
From the 1959-60 Helena cruise book
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