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Ship'S Organization: Military Science-2
Ship'S Organization: Military Science-2
Military Science-2
CHAPTER
Chapter 1 2
Ship’s Organization
CMAA
Executive Officer
Other
Departments
Ship’s organization
The Commanding
Officer:
1. A line officer who, by virtue of his training
and experience is assigned by the FOIC, PN
with a responsibility to command a ship.
2. No matter what his rank is, he is called
“Captain”
3. He is charge with absolute responsibility for
the safety, well being and efficient operation
of his command.
4. His specific duties, responsibilities and
authority are set forth in the AFP and PN
regulations, customs and traditions of naval
service.
Ship’s organization
a. Cargo Officer
b. Special Service Officer
c. Athletic Officer
Ship’s organization
Mess and Supply Officer:
Rate – is the term used to identify the level of achievement and experties within
the individual’s rating. Rate may also be called paygrade within a rating.
GM - Gunner’s Mate
Navy GMs operate, maintain and repair all gunnery equipment, guided-missile
launching systems, rocket launchers, guns, gun mounts, turrets, projectors and
associated equipment. They make detailed casualty analyses and repairs of electrical,
electronic, hydraulic and mechanical systems. They also test and inspect ammunition,
missiles and their ordnance components. GMs train and supervise personnel in the
handling and stowage of ammunition, missiles and assigned ordnance equipment.
QM - Quartermaster
QMs assist the navigator and officer of the deck (OOD), steer the ship, take radar
bearings and ranges, make depth soundings and celestial observations, plot courses and
command small craft. Additionally, they maintain charts, navigational aids and
oceanographic publications and records for the ship’s log. reports. They maintain files
and service records.
PN enlisted rating structure
ET - Electronics Technician
ETs are responsible for electronic equipment used to send and receive messages,
detect enemy planes and ships, and determine target distances. They must maintain,
repair, calibrate, tune and adjust all electronic equipment used for communications,
detection and tracking, recognition and identification, navigation and electronic
countermeasures.
DK - Disbursing Clerk
DKs maintain the financial records of Navy personnel. They prepare payrolls,
determine transportation entitlements, compute travel allowances and process claims
for reimbursement of travel expenses. DKs also process vouchers for receiving and
spending public money and ensure accounting data is accurate. They maintain fiscal
records and prepare financial reports and returns.
SK - Storekeeper
SKs are the Navy’s supply clerks. They see that needed supplies are available
including everything from clothing and machine parts to forms and food. SKs have
duties as civilian warehousemen, purchasing agents, stock clerks and supervisors, retail
sales clerks, store managers, inventory clerks, buyers, parts clerks, bookkeepers and
even fork lift operators.
PN enlisted rating structure
YN - Yeoman
YNs perform secretarial and clerical work. They deal with visitors, telephone calls
and incoming mail. YNs organize files and operate copy machines and order and
distribute supplies. They write and type business and social letters, notices, directives,
forms and reports. They maintain files and service records.
DT - Dental Technician
Navy dentists, like many civilian ones, are assisted by dental technicians. DTs have a
variety of “chairside,” laboratory and administrative duties. Some are qualified in
making and fitting artificial teeth; dental X-ray techniques; clinical laboratory required.
HM - Hospital Corpsman
HMs assist medical professionals in providing health care to service people and
their families. They serve as pharmacists, medical technicians, food service personnel,
nurse’s aids, physician’s or dentist’s assistants, battlefield medics, X-ray technicians and
more. An HM’s work falls into several categories: first aid and minor surgery, patient
transportation, patient care, prescriptions and laboratory work, food service inspections
and clerical duties.
PN enlisted rating structure
EM - Electrician’s Mate
The operation and repair of a ship’s or station’s electrical power plant and electrical
equipment is the responsibility of EMs. They also maintain and repair power and lighting
circuits, distribution switchboards, generators, motors and other electrical equipment.
EN - Engineman
Internal combustion engines, diesel or gasoline, must be kept in good order. This is
the responsibility of ENs. They also maintain refrigeration, air-conditioning, distilling-
plant engines and compressors.
MR - Machinery Repairman
MRs are skilled machine tool operators. They make replacement parts and repair or
overhaul a ship’s engine auxiliary equipment, such as evaporators, air compressors and
pumps. They repair deck equipment, including winches and hoists, condensers and heat
exchange devices. Shipboard MRs frequently operate main propulsion machinery,
besides performing machine shop and repair duties
PN enlisted rating structure
BU - Builder
Navy builders are like civilian construction workers. They are skilled carpenters,
plasterers, roofers, cement finishers, asphalt workers, masons, painters, bricklayers,
sawmill operators or cabinetmakers. BUs build and repair all types of structures
including: piers, bridges, towers, underwater installations, schools, offices, houses and
other buildings.
PH - Photographer’s Mate
PHs photograph actual and simulated battle operations and make photo records of
historic and newsworthy events for the Navy. They expose and process light-sensitive
negatives and positives, maintain cameras, related equipment, photo files and records
and perform other photographic services for the Navy.
Equipment Operator
NAVAL CUSTOMS AND
TRADITIONS
honors
1. Salute
Normally given with the right hand; when right hand is
encumbered, left hand could be used.
NAVAL CUSTOMS AND
TRADITIONS
2. Honors to the Flag
a. Colors – paying honors to the flag; hoisted in the morning
and lowered in the afternoon.
a. For ships not underway and Shore Commands:
Sunrise – Morning Colors
Sunset – Evening Colors
b. For ships underway:
National ensign is raised/lowered at the mast; the jack flag is
not raised.
Shifting colors:
When ship leaves the pier or weighs her anchor, shifts the
National Ensign from the flag gaff to mast. The national Ensign is
then called steaming ensign. Jack Flag is lowered at the same
time.
3. Other Honors
•Bitts- strong iron post on a ships deck for working of fastening lines almost invariably in pairs.
•Bulkhead- one of the vertical wall like structures enclosing a compartment
•Brig – a prison on a ship or a shore base
•Bollard- wooden or iron post on a pier or wharf for securing mooring lines
•Cleat- a small deck fittings or metal with horns used for securing lines
•Deck- on a ship, its corresponds to a floor in a building
•Compartment- it corresponds to a room in a building
•Overhead- equivalent to a ceiling of a building ashore
Naval terms and phraseologies
Denotes Nomenclature of Fittings:
Warships
A. Aircraft Carrier - a warship designed
to deploy and recover aircraft—in effect acting
as a sea-going airbase. Aircraft carriers thus
allow a naval force to project air power great
distances without having to depend on local
bases for land-based aircraft.
Mine
Minesweeping Boat Countermeasure
Support Ship
Inshore MSO-Ocean
Minesweeper Minesweeper
SHIP Type and characteristics
Combatant Vessels:
Patrol Ship
Used mainly to screen convoys, hunt down submarines and serve as general warning craft.
Destroyer escort
ship Patrol Craft Coastal
(Fast)
Guided missile
escort ship
Motor gunboat
Destroyer Escort
Radar picket ship
SHIP Type and characteristics
Auxiliary Vessels:
The Navy could start a war without auxiliary ships, but it couldn’t fight very long without these
vessels since the auxiliaries provide the material and services which keep the fleet and its
advanced base operational.
Hospital Ship
Destroyer Tender
Barge Tugboat
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